DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1213465
title: Global Biotic Interactions: Taxon Graph

description: Global Biotic Interactions: Taxon Cache and Taxon Map

Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) provides access to existing species interaction datasets (Poelen et al. 2014, http://globalbioticinteractions.org). As part of the dataset integration and aggregation, a best effort is made to resolve, match and link taxonomic names and associated vernacular/common names, hierarchies and thumbnails. 

The data archives included in this publication contain established taxonomic links (taxonMap.tsv.gz) and taxonomic information (taxonCache.tsv.gz) that GloBI retrieved and integrated from taxonomic name sources and web services associated with http://itis.gov, http://globalnames.org, http://eol.org and others open data services. 

While GloBI is not a naming authority and the primary goal of the name matching process is to detect incorrect or outdates names, the archives may serve as an example of how to publish denormalized taxonomic records and their interrelatioships in a pragmatic way.

For related discussion threads, see https://github.com/jhpoelen/eol-globi-data/issues/145 , https://github.com/jhpoelen/eol-globi-data/issues/274 , https://github.com/jhpoelen/eol-globi-data/issues/70 , https://github.com/EOL/tramea/issues/10 and https://github.com/jhpoelen/eol-globi-data/issues/274 .

Files<br>
  <br>
  README <br>
      this file<br>
  <br>
  taxonCache.tsv.gz <br>
      Taxonomic name, ids, hierarchies, common names and thumbnail associated to taxa known to GloBI. Accessed at https://depot.globalbioticinteractions.org/datasets/org/globalbioticinteractions/taxon/0.3.1/taxon-0.3.1.zip on 5 April 2018.<br>
 <br>
  taxonCacheFirst10.tsv<br>
      Header and 10 following lines from taxonCache.tsv.gz.<br>
 <br>
  taxonMap.tsv.gz <br>
      Links between taxon name and ids across various taxon providers. Accessed at https://depot.globalbioticinteractions.org/datasets/org/globalbioticinteractions/taxon/0.3.1/taxon-0.3.1.zip on 5 April 2018. 

  taxonMapFirst10.tsv<br>
      Header and 10 following lines from taxonMap.tsv.gz.<br>
 <br>
  prefixes.tsv<br>
      Term prefixes and their associated uri schemes. 

Column Descriptions

  taxonCache.tsv.gz 

    1 | id<br>
    2 | name<br>
    3 | rank<br>
    4 | commonNames<br>
    5 | path<br>
    6 | pathIds <br>
    7 | pathNames<br>
    8 | externalUrl<br>
    9 | thumbnailUrl<br>
 <br>
  taxonMap.tsv.gz

    1 | providedTaxonId<br>
    2 | providedTaxonName<br>
    3 | resolvedTaxonId<br>
    4 | resolvedTaxonName

References

Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.005.

Updates

org.globalbioticinteractions.taxon v0.3, 2018-03-02

This taxon archive version was created by taking GloBI taxon v0.2 (Jan 2018) and appending a semi-automatically created WikiData taxon mapping and taxon cache.

org.globalbioticinteractions.taxon v0.3.1, 2018-04-05

This taxon archive version was created by taking GloBI taxon v0.2 (Jan 2018) and appending an automatically created WikiData taxon mapping and taxon cache using Apache Spark scripts at https://github.com/bio-guoda/guoda-datasets/tree/master/wikidata .