DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14618521
title: Bat Literature Project (BatLit, https://batlit.org) v0.7 hash://md5/ce1e7618f237ff56e74d51f496e811a3 - Reference List, Metadata, and their Provenance

description: Introduction

Bat researchers rely on access to a vast corpus of bat literature to help advance our understanding of bats and the ecosystems they live in. Many researchers build and organize their personal literature collections using mainstream digital tools like Zotero and EndNote, whereas others use homegrown digital methods or even manage their collections manually. However, all researchers routinely encounter roadblocks to literature access including paywalls and older literature resources that have not yet been digitized. To help provide access to bat research literature for all, Plazi and the GBatNet Bat Eco-Interactions Working Group are compiling the Bat Literature Corpus (BatLit). BatLit is an actively managed, digital, versioned, and citable collection of bat research literature and associated metadata compiled from existing literature contributed by bat researchers. BatLit is designed to be used in manual (e.g., point-and-click) as well as automated workflows (e.g., text mining, language model training), and can be accessed in many ways, including, but not limited to, external storage media, Zenodo, and GitHub. As BatLit continues to improve and grow, we aim to continue to democratize access to bat literature, accelerate research, and help reduce the barrier to knowledge for bat researchers around the world. We invite you to contribute your reference library, especially the PDFs, to BatLit and thereby help increase information access for all.

This data publication contains versioned Zotero metadata and provenance of the batlit literature records, as tracked by Preston (a biodiversity data tracker, Elliott et al. 2020,2023) as well as derived reference lists in comma-, and tab-separated values formats. 

The Bat Literature Project (BatLit) facilitates discovery of scientific literature on bats (Chiroptera).

For more information contact Aja Sherman (aja.sherman22@gmail.com), Cullen Geiselman (cullen@werinterests.com), or Jorrit Poelen (jhpoelen@jhpoelen.nl).

Cite as: A.C. Sherman, J.H. Poelen, D. Agosti, N. Upham, N.B. Simmons, J.S. Zijlstra, and C.K. Geiselman. 2024. Bat Literature Project (BatLit, https://batlit.org) v0.7 hash://md5/ce1e7618f237ff56e74d51f496e811a3 .

BatLit Literature Record Index

Literature records can be extracted from this corpus in various ways. As an example, we show the output of an executed script in bin/list-refs.sh against a recent version of the BatLit Corpus, both of which are provided in included batlit metadata archives (i.e., data.zip, data.tar.gz). For ease of processing, we’ve included a sample of 3 records in the table below, as well as files in tsv/csv formats include 100 records and all records.




filenames
description




data.zip / data.tar.gz
batlit metadata archive


refs-100.tsv / refs-100.csv
author/date/title/journal of first 100 records


refs.tsv / refs.csv
author/date/title/journal of all records




First 3 records shown below as an example. This data is also used to create the BatLit References Page. This page adds links to the references to facilitate searches on Zenodo.

Note that id points to the records as seen on Zotero, attachment points to the attachment records as seen on Zotero, attachmentId is the signature/hash of the associated pdf, corpusId is the signature/hash of the applicable BatLit version (see version table below).





authors      Douglas
date         1967
title        Article: The Natural History of the Ghost Bat, Macroderma Gigas (Microchiroptera Megadermatidae), in Western Australia
journal      Western Australia. The Western Australian Naturalist
type         journalArticle
volume       10
issue        
pages        125-138
doi          
id           https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/M5MZ6NSB
attachment   https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/223GU789
attachmentId hash://md5/5e3f7fac483550be7983c6096e9e9800
corpusId     hash://md5/ce1e7618f237ff56e74d51f496e811a3

authors      Vora | Hannah | Lieberman | Vale | Plowright | Bernstein
date         2022-05
title        Want to prevent pandemics? Stop spillovers
journal      Nature
type         journalArticle
volume       605
issue        7910
pages        419-422
doi          10.1038/d41586-022-01312-y
id           https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/A5RNP5YH
attachment   https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/223P42N5
attachmentId hash://md5/85c89cedcc23b072f98f3c22ad731029
corpusId     hash://md5/ce1e7618f237ff56e74d51f496e811a3

authors      Otto | Rall | Brose
date         12/2007
title        Allometric degree distributions facilitate food-web stability
journal      Nature
type         journalArticle
volume       450
issue        7173
pages        1226-1229
doi          10.1038/nature06359
id           https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/6RAB386Y
attachment   https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/225DJR2Q
attachmentId hash://md5/6bdc818006c01cac3dd90eec4b337289
corpusId     hash://md5/ce1e7618f237ff56e74d51f496e811a3



Version History




name
version
date
size
# pages
# references
# attachments
fingerprint




Bat Literature Corpus
v0.1
2024-04-26
7.9 GiB
 
2929
5055
hash://sha256/6ba...189


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.2
2024-05-16/2024-05-17
11.6 GiB
 
3310
5471
hash://md5/be6...1d7


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.3
2024-06-25/2024-06-26
13.6 GiB
 
5501
7229
hash://md5/350...77d


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.4
2024-08-01/2024-08-02
50.9 GiB
 
20146
29860
hash://md5/b39...72a


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.5
2024-08-16/2024-08-17
50.9 GiB
 
20145
29850
hash://md5/26f...b20


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.6
2024-09-19/2024-09-20
44.7GiB
427105
19038
22590
hash://md5/db7...97b


Bat Literature Corpus
v0.7
2024-12-05/2024-12-06
45.2GiB
431870
19268
22930
hash://md5/ce1...1a3