DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10015657
title: Global Biotic Interactions: Elton Dataset Cache iNaturalist

description: Global Biotic Interactions: Elton Dataset Cache iNaturalist
The intended use of this archive/cache is to allow for offline-enabled access to versions of existing species interaction datasets provided by iNaturalist. The program "Elton" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.998263) was used to populate the content of elton-datasets.tar.gz . The same program can be used to extract information from the cache archive also. Global Biotic Interactions (https://globalbioticinteractions.org, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.005) also uses these archives to create derived species interaction data archives, search indexes and APIs.
To get offline-enabled access to versions of other species interactions datasets, please see Global Biotic Interactions: Elton Dataset Cache at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2007418 .
 
Contents
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README: the first part of this file
elton-datasets.tar.gz:versioned archive with species interaction datasets
elton-datasets.tar.sha256:content signature of elton-datasets.tar
elton-datasets.tsv:list of included datasets
elton.jar:commandline program to help access the species interaction datasets
 
Usage
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To install, extract elton-datasets.tar.gz into a directory of choice using:
 
tar xfz elton-dataset.tar.gz
 
To use, download elton.jar included this publication and execute the following to get a list of available datasets:
java -Xmx4G -jar elton.jar datasets
on a system that has java v8+ installed.
If all goes well, you should be able to regenerate the included file elton-dataset.tsv .
For more information on how to use elton.jar, execute:
java -jar elton.jar usage
or visit https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/elton for more available commands.
Alternatively, without using Elton, you can access the data by inspecting the access.tsv files in the various directories of the datasets directory.
When using these datasets in a publication or product, please cite the *original* data providers and publications. You can find the citations in the data.
Included datasets:
globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist/archive/db6545f3d7afd88f48064dddb9f4692603545a44.zip  2023-10-14T00:29:47.032Z application/globi
globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist/archive/db6545f3d7afd88f48064dddb9f4692603545a44.zip 9a1342936d3abd508a039b4216a9c3b18b6d135160338c966f40a6fee3191731 2023-10-14T00:29:49.693Z
globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/globi-observations-resource-relationships-dwca.zip 32642cd31854c4e4c93e40ed2e0117819be2397b736bff12bee32e5045204df2 2023-10-14T00:30:04.130Z
globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist/archive/db6545f3d7afd88f48064dddb9f4692603545a44.zip 9a1342936d3abd508a039b4216a9c3b18b6d135160338c966f40a6fee3191731 2023-10-14T00:34:30.397Z
globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/inaturalist-taxonomy.dwca.zip b3355c65d28c3dc7a4e9b66d6e20bf603d91c68e6c392473be93ed43e680055c 2023-10-14T00:34:40.679Z
globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist/archive/db6545f3d7afd88f48064dddb9f4692603545a44.zip 9a1342936d3abd508a039b4216a9c3b18b6d135160338c966f40a6fee3191731 2023-10-14T00:35:17.450Z