Field Museum and iNaturalist Extending Specimen through DwC Resource Relationships

[jhpoelen]

@matt, I’ve attempted to address more of your notes / questions below. Curious to hear your thoughts.

@matt

• Sharing via resource relationships is noted in your article, yet I didn’t find reference to this format in the review, I found it a little difficult to figure out how these were related.

Yes, I can see your point. Currently, the data under review is included in the review archive, but not yet explicity called out, or linked. By introducing more advanced provenance tracking (via Preston), this information could be made available to the review report. For related issue see add support for Preston provenance tracking / archives · Issue #52 · globalbioticinteractions/elton · GitHub .

• Is there an example of interactions.tsv in a DwCA archive?

interactions.tsv is a wide table format that GloBI supports with examples at GitHub - globalbioticinteractions/template-dataset: Template species interaction data repository compatible with globalbioticinteractions.org . For examples of resource relationship tables, you can refer to iNaturalist or Field Museum DwC-A. For instance, the first resource relationship records of a Field Museum DwC-A can be found at the following data coordinates produced by https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/archive.do?r=fmnh_insects on 2023-11-28T23:58:47.234Z :

https://linker.bio/line:zip:hash://sha256/5a23d48aafe02a82662286c87a7cccfe2707f69bccf0e3ba165997977e9c0dd0!/resourcerelationship.txt!/L1-L10

or

preston --remote https://linker.bio cat 'line:zip:hash://sha256/5a23d48aafe02a82662286c87a7cccfe2707f69bccf0e3ba165997977e9c0dd0!/resourcerelationship.txt!/L1-L10'

id	resourceRelationshipID	resourceID	relatedResourceID	relationshipOfResource	relationshipAccordingTo	relationshipEstablishedDate	relationshipRemarks
44c14fd7-48cf-457c-a67d-925ebfbb00ac	268e362a-fdbd-437a-ba2e-f20f54f82765	44c14fd7-48cf-457c-a67d-925ebfbb00ac	26062	Ectoparasite Of			relatedResourceID Repo: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - Section of Birds and Mammals - Section of Birds and Mammals
12a77558-ec38-47ba-ba4d-b5e352dd2849	7a20a661-1b72-4692-93f0-6f6fd0db0290	12a77558-ec38-47ba-ba4d-b5e352dd2849		Ectoparasite Of		2007-12-15	Host#: JM103
1955e629-0b5f-4ae7-bb0c-e0aa8e33fdf5	2d42704e-e997-45e9-ad55-13d3a2178aac	1955e629-0b5f-4ae7-bb0c-e0aa8e33fdf5		Ectoparasite Of			Sex: Unknown
2a259fbf-2d3f-44e6-af8a-30151c2ad6af	988eac75-a2b9-48e8-a126-cb18d515d888	2a259fbf-2d3f-44e6-af8a-30151c2ad6af	7b03cfe7-d39e-4f9e-aa75-f759cb349913	Ectoparasite Of			scientificName: Rousettus madagascariensis
ca49b909-730f-4d2a-8a48-6367cbe6860c	ec3f57c8-83dd-4ada-b599-6659522ab7df	ca49b909-730f-4d2a-8a48-6367cbe6860c	ad077bd0-7357-4749-81e2-0fb7b6a45f96	Ectoparasite Of			scientificName: Myotis goudoti
62452e2e-6751-4e02-b663-65756d3cd0e0	5202c418-9aa5-4da2-b3a1-f26bf30d8eb5	62452e2e-6751-4e02-b663-65756d3cd0e0		Ectoparasite Of			ex: pocket gopher
0ee660d6-8eea-4bb4-9230-439a1479fb6b	1de9f765-90ea-4cee-a359-ef34f1dac433	0ee660d6-8eea-4bb4-9230-439a1479fb6b		Ectoparasite Of			scientificName: Glossophaga soricina valens
2090f626-ea69-4c07-bca5-e652b10610e8	253b0c08-e396-450d-bc52-c251149fe7b8	2090f626-ea69-4c07-bca5-e652b10610e8		Ectoparasite Of		2007-11-27	Host#: JF97
252585d0-a3f8-4dc1-b536-418a0db1ecc3	e0158399-7243-4647-8b5b-b3f6c2c7e751	252585d0-a3f8-4dc1-b536-418a0db1ecc3		Ectoparasite Of			scientificName: Myotis elegans

• Is there an example of interactions.tsv in a resource relationship format (i.e. referencing DwC fields in that extension)?

Currently, GloBI indexers can read Resource Relationship extensions, but not yet write. But perhaps I don’t understand your question. What do you mean by example of interactions.tsv ? Can you give an example?

• Is there a version of resource relationships that could be produced? Am I mistaken that we could use a resource relationship extension in asserting these data?

Do you mean to ask whether GloBI can produce DwC-A with resource relationship records in it? GloBI is currently setup to read DwC-A with resource relationship extensions. Perhaps there is a way to make GloBI produce datasets in the form of DwC-A with resource relations in it, but I haven’t thought about this much. Is this what you had in mind? If not, please elaborate or rephrase your question.

Thanks again for your comments/ notes/ questions.

-jorrit