Introduction Data Review and Archive Data review and archiving can be a time-consuming process, especially when done manually. This review report aims to help facilitate both activities. It automates the archiving of datasets, including Darwin Core archives, and is a citable backup of a version of the dataset. Additionally, an automatic review of species interaction claims made in the dataset is generated and registered with Global Biotic Interactions (J. H. Poelen, Simons, and Mungall 2014). This review includes summary statistics about, and observations about, the dataset under review : Gray, C., Ma, A., Perkins, D., Hudson, L., Figueroa, D., & Woodward, G. (2015). Database of trophic interactions [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13751 https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/foodwebsdatabase/archive/4aa24df2e9712264a52b148f6486df4b54ee7c49.zip 2026-06-02T15:06:30.457Z hash://md5/7d4d8f3e9d7868e8c84e1d52ac272d64 Methods The review is performed through programmatic scripts that leverage tools like Preston (Elliott et al. 2025), Elton (Kuhn, Poelen, and Leinweber 2025), Nomer (Salim and Poelen 2025), globinizer (J. Poelen, Seltmann, and Mietchen 2024) combined with third-party tools like grep, mlr, tail and head. Tools used in this review process tool name version preston 0.11.1 elton 0.16.11 nomer 0.6.5 globinizer 0.4.0 mlr 6.0.0 jq 1.6 yq 4.25.3 pandoc 3.1.6.1 duckdb 1.3.1 mapserver 7.6.4 The review process can be described in the form of the script below 1. # get versioned copy of the dataset (size approx. 6.88MiB) under review elton pull globalbioticinteractions/foodwebsdatabase # generate review notes elton review globalbioticinteractions/foodwebsdatabase \ > review.tsv # export indexed interaction records elton interactions globalbioticinteractions/foodwebsdatabase \ > interactions.tsv # export names and align them with the Catalogue of Life using Nomer elton names globalbioticinteractions/foodwebsdatabase \ | nomer append col \ > name-alignment.tsv or visually, in a process diagram. Review Process Overview You can find a copy of the full review script at check-data.sh. See also GitHub and Codeberg. Results In the following sections, the results of the review are summarized 2. Then, links to the detailed review reports are provided. Files An extensive list of files produced as part of the review process can be found in Appendix A. Review Files. Archived Dataset Note that data.zip file in this archive contains the complete, unmodified archived dataset under review. Biotic Interactions Biotic Interaction Data Model In this review, biotic interactions (or biotic associations) are modeled as a primary (aka subject, source) organism interacting with an associate (aka object, target) organism. The dataset under review classified the primary/associate organisms with specific taxa. The primary and associate organisms The kind of interaction is documented as an interaction type. The dataset under review, named globalbioticinteractions/foodwebsdatabase, has fingerprint hash://md5/7d4d8f3e9d7868e8c84e1d52ac272d64, is 6.88MiB in size and contains 20,823 interactions with 1 unique type of association (e.g., eats) between 362 primary taxa (e.g., Salmo trutta) and 668 associated taxa (e.g., Simuliidae). An exhaustive list of indexed interaction claims can be found in gzipped csv, tsv, geopackage and parquet archives. To facilitate discovery, a preview of claims available in the gzipped html page at indexed-interactions.html.gz are shown below. The exhaustive list was used to create the following data summaries below. Sample of Indexed Interaction Claims sourceTaxonName interactionTypeName targetTaxonName referenceCitation Ancylus fluviatilis eats FPOM Ledger, M.E., Brown, L.E., Edwards, F., Milner, A.M. & Woodward, G. (2012) Drought alters the structure and functioning of complex food webs. Nature Climate Change. Ancylus fluviatilis eats CPOM Ledger, M.E., Brown, L.E., Edwards, F., Milner, A.M. & Woodward, G. (2012) Drought alters the structure and functioning of complex food webs. Nature Climate Change. Ancylus fluviatilis eats Navicula gregaria Ledger, M.E., Brown, L.E., Edwards, F., Milner, A.M. & Woodward, G. (2012) Drought alters the structure and functioning of complex food webs. Nature Climate Change. Ancylus fluviatilis eats Navicula tripunctata Ledger, M.E., Brown, L.E., Edwards, F., Milner, A.M. & Woodward, G. (2012) Drought alters the structure and functioning of complex food webs. Nature Climate Change. Most Frequently Mentioned Interaction Types (up to 20 most frequent) interactionTypeName count eats 20823 Most Frequently Mentioned Primary Taxa (up to 20 most frequent) sourceTaxonName count Salmo trutta 3212 Cordulegaster 655 Isoperla grammatica 603 Trissopelopia 513 Cottus gobio 472 Perlodes microcephalus 415 Rhyacophila dorsalis 394 Sialis 289 Macropelopia 286 Phoxinus phoxinus 272 Anguilla anguilla 271 Esox lucius 218 Siphonoperla torrentium 204 Microtendipes 187 Gammarus pulex 173 Radix balthica 171 Elmis aenea 164 Limnius volckmari 162 Plectrocnemia 160 Most Frequently Mentioned Associate Taxa (up to 20 most frequent) targetTaxonName count Simuliidae 1498 Baetis 575 Orthocladiinae 524 Chironomidae 488 Algae 480 Gammarus pulex 422 Heterotrissocladius 401 CPOM 361 Achnanthes 323 Nemurella 294 FPOM 262 Cocconeis placentula 252 Rhoicosphenia abbreviata 203 Leuctra nigra 199 Gomphonema olivaceum 197 Melosira varians 192 Navicula tripunctata 189 Amphora pediculus 185 Staurosira elliptica 183 Most Frequent Interactions between Primary and Associate Taxa (up to 20 most frequent) sourceTaxonName interactionTypeName targetTaxonName count Salmo trutta eats Simuliidae 1112 Salmo trutta eats Orthocladiinae 359 Salmo trutta eats Gammarus pulex 325 Salmo trutta eats Baetis 287 Cordulegaster eats Nemurella 212 Isoperla grammatica eats Algae 188 Anguilla anguilla eats Simuliidae 146 Salmo trutta eats Lepidostoma hirtum 125 Perlodes microcephalus eats Algae 121 Cottus gobio eats Simuliidae 120 Trissopelopia eats Heterotrissocladius 116 Salmo trutta eats Silo pallipes 115 Salmo trutta eats Tanytarsini 113 Rhyacophila dorsalis eats Chironomidae 112 Isoperla grammatica eats Chironomidae 103 Rhyacophila dorsalis eats Algae 94 Perlodes microcephalus eats Chironomidae 93 Macropelopia eats Heterotrissocladius 91 Cordulegaster eats Heterotrissocladius 90 Interaction Networks The figures below provide a graph view on the dataset under review. The first shows a summary network on the kingdom level, and the second shows how interactions on the family level. It is important to note that both network graphs were first aligned taxonomically using the Catalogue of Life. Please refer to the original (or verbatim) taxonomic names for a more original view on the interaction data. Interactions on taxonomic kingdom rank as interpreted by the Catalogue of Life download svg Interactions on the taxonomic family rank as interpreted by the Catalogue of Life. download svg You can download the indexed dataset under review at indexed-interactions.csv.gz. A tab-separated file can be found at indexed-interactions.tsv.gz Geospatial Distribution If geospatial information was extracted from the dataset under review, the map below will show their distribution. These maps were generated using MapServer (McKenna et al. 2025) tools configured via map configuration indexed-interactions.map : MAP SIZE 1600 800 EXTENT -180 -90 180 90 PROJECTION "init=epsg:4326" END LAYER # MODIS WMS map from NASA NAME "modis_nasa" TYPE RASTER OFFSITE 0 0 0 STATUS ON CONNECTIONTYPE WMS CONNECTION "https://gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov/wms/epsg4326/best/wms.cgi?" METADATA "wms_srs" "EPSG:4326" "wms_name" "OSM_Land_Water_Map" "wms_server_version" "1.1.1" "wms_format" "image/jpeg" END CLASS STYLE COLOR 232 232 232 OUTLINECOLOR 32 32 32 END END END LAYER NAME "indexed-interactions" TYPE POLYGON STATUS ON CONNECTIONTYPE OGR CONNECTION "indexed-interactions-h3.gpkg" DATA "indexed-interactions-h3" CLASS STYLE COLORRANGE 253.0 231.0 37.0 32.0 164.0 134.0 DATARANGE NULL NULL RANGEITEM "log_number_of_records" OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0 END END END END Hexagonal grid cells indicate that interactions claims are available for selected geospatial area: light yellow means relatively fewer claims, dark green relatively more claims. Associated data can be found in the geopackage files at indexed-interactions.gpkg for point data and indexed-interactions-h3.gpkg for data clustered in geospatial h3 hexagonals. Learn more about the structure of this download at GloBI website, by opening a GitHub issue, or by sending an email. Another way to discover the dataset under review is by searching for it on the GloBI website. Taxonomic Alignment As part of the review, all names are aligned against various name catalogs (e.g., col, ncbi, discoverlife, gbif, itis, wfo, mdd, tpt, pbdb, and worms). These alignments can help review name usage or aid in selecting of a suitable taxonomic name resource. Sample of Name Alignments providedName relationName resolvedCatalogName resolvedName Acanthocyclops vernalis SYNONYM_OF col Acanthocyclops vernalis vernalis Acanthocyclops vernalis HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME col Acanthocyclops vernalis Acari NONE col Acari Achnanthes altaica SYNONYM_OF col Psammothidium altaicum Distribution of Taxonomic Ranks of Aligned Names by Catalog. Names that were not aligned with a catalog are counted as NAs. So, the total number of unaligned names for a catalog will be listed in their NA row. resolvedCatalogName resolvedRank count col NA 56 col class 4 col family 27 col genus 221 col infraorder 1 col kingdom 1 col order 11 col phylum 4 col species 500 col subclass 1 col subfamily 4 col subgenus 15 col suborder 3 col subspecies 10 col tribe 8 col variety 2 discoverlife NA 827 gbif NA 49 gbif class 5 gbif family 24 gbif form 7 gbif genus 221 gbif kingdom 1 gbif order 12 gbif phylum 4 gbif species 511 gbif subspecies 7 gbif variety 15 itis NA 187 itis class 5 itis family 23 itis genus 202 itis infraorder 1 itis kingdom 1 itis order 11 itis phylum 5 itis species 375 itis subclass 3 itis subfamily 5 itis suborder 3 itis subspecies 1 itis superorder 1 itis tribe 4 itis variety 1 mdd NA 826 ncbi NA 163 ncbi clade 1 ncbi class 3 ncbi cohort 1 ncbi family 23 ncbi genus 206 ncbi infraorder 1 ncbi kingdom 1 ncbi order 11 ncbi phylum 6 ncbi species 397 ncbi subclass 4 ncbi subfamily 5 ncbi subgenus 4 ncbi suborder 4 ncbi subspecies 1 ncbi tribe 4 ncbi varietas 1 pbdb NA 637 pbdb class 7 pbdb family 21 pbdb genus 107 pbdb informal 1 pbdb infraclass 1 pbdb infraorder 2 pbdb kingdom 1 pbdb order 11 pbdb phylum 5 pbdb species 25 pbdb subclass 2 pbdb subfamily 6 pbdb suborder 3 pbdb tribe 4 pbdb unranked clade 1 tpt NA 767 tpt species 59 wfo NA 816 wfo genus 10 worms NA 421 worms class 3 worms family 19 worms forma 1 worms genus 116 worms kingdom 2 worms order 13 worms phylum 5 worms phylum (division) 1 worms species 228 worms subclass 4 worms subfamily 5 worms suborder 4 worms subspecies 2 worms tribe 2 worms variety 11 Name relationship types per catalog. Name relationship type "NONE" means that a name was not recognized by the associated catalog. "SAME_AS" indicates either a "HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME" or "SYNONYM_OF" name relationship type. We recognize that "SYNONYM_OF" encompasses many types of nomenclatural synonymies resolvedCatalogName relationName count col SYNONYM_OF 197 col HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME 808 col NONE 61 discoverlife NONE 834 gbif HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME 871 gbif NONE 54 gbif SYNONYM_OF 193 itis HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME 615 itis SYNONYM_OF 37 itis NONE 192 mdd NONE 833 ncbi SAME_AS 659 ncbi NONE 168 ncbi SYNONYM_OF 23 pbdb NONE 642 pbdb SYNONYM_OF 19 pbdb HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME 190 tpt NONE 774 tpt HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME 98 tpt SYNONYM_OF 37 wfo NONE 823 wfo HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME 5 wfo HAS_UNCHECKED_NAME 2 wfo SYNONYM_OF 4 worms HAS_ACCEPTED_NAME 414 worms SYNONYM_OF 82 worms NONE 426 List of Available Name Alignment Reports catalog name alignment results col associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv) ncbi associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv) discoverlife associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv) gbif associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv) itis associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv) wfo associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv) mdd associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv) tpt associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv) pbdb associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv) worms associated names alignments report in gzipped html, csv, and tsv) Additional Reviews Elton, Nomer, and other tools may have difficulties interpreting existing species interaction datasets. Or, they may misbehave, or otherwise show unexpected behavior. As part of the review process, detailed review notes are kept that document possibly misbehaving, or confused, review bots. An sample of review notes associated with this review can be found below. First few lines in the review notes. reviewDate reviewCommentType reviewComment 2026-06-03T19:38:38Z summary https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/foodwebsdatabase/archive/4aa24df2e9712264a52b148f6486df4b54ee7c49.zip 2026-06-03T19:38:38Z summary 20823 interaction(s) 2026-06-03T19:38:38Z summary 0 note(s) 2026-06-03T19:38:38Z summary 20823 info(s) In addition, you can find the most frequently occurring notes in the table below. : Most frequently occurring review notes, if any. For additional information on review notes, please have a look at the first 500 Review Notes in html format or the download full gzipped csv or tsv archives. GloBI Review Badge As part of the review, a review badge is generated. This review badge can be included in webpages to indicate the review status of the dataset under review. Picture of a GloBI Review Badge 3 Note that if the badge is green, no review notes were generated. If the badge is yellow, the review bots may need some help with interpreting the species interaction data. GloBI Index Badge If the dataset under review has been registered with GloBI, and has been succesfully indexed by GloBI, the GloBI Index Status Badge will turn green. This means that the dataset under review was indexed by GloBI and is available through GloBI services and derived data products. Picture of a GloBI Index Badge 4 If you'd like to keep track of reviews or index status of the dataset under review, please visit GloBI's dataset index 5 for badge examples. Discussion This review and archive provides a means of creating citable versions of datasets that change frequently. This may be useful for dataset managers, including natural history collection data managers, as a backup archive of a shared Darwin Core archive. It also serves as a means of creating a trackable citation for the dataset in an automated way, while also including some information about the contents of the dataset. This review aims to provide a perspective on the dataset to aid in understanding of species interaction claims discovered. However, it is important to note that this review does not assess the quality of the dataset. Instead, it serves as an indication of the open-ness6 and FAIRness (Wilkinson et al. 2016; Trekels et al. 2023) of the dataset: to perform this review, the data was likely openly available, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. The current Open-FAIR assessment is qualitative, and a more quantitative approach can be implemented with specified measurement units. This report also showcases the reuse of machine-actionable (meta)data, something highly recommended by the FAIR Data Principles (Wilkinson et al. 2016). Making (meta)data machine-actionable enables more precise procesing by computers, enabling even naive review bots like Nomer and Elton to interpret the data effectively. This capability is crucial for not just automating the generation of reports, but also for facilitating seamless data exchanges, promoting interoperability. Acknowledgements We thank the many humans that created us and those who created and maintained the data, software and other intellectual resources that were used for producing this review. In addition, we are grateful for the natural resources providing the basis for these human and bot activities. Also, thanks to https://github.com/zygoballus for helping improve the layout of the review tables. Author contributions Nomer was responsible for name alignments. Elton carried out dataset extraction, and generated the review notes. Preston tracked, versioned, and packaged, the dataset under review. Appendix A. Review Files The following files are produced in this review: filename description biblio.bib list of bibliographic reference of this review check-dataset.sh data review workflow/process as expressed in a bash script data.zip a versioned archive of the data under review HEAD the digital signature of the data under review index.docx review in MS Word format index.html review in HTML format index.md review in Pandoc markdown format index.pdf review in PDF format indexed-citations.csv.gz list of distinct reference citations for reviewed species interaction claims in gzipped comma-separated values file format indexed-citations.html.gz list of distinct reference citations for reviewed species interactions claims in gzipped html file format indexed-citations.tsv.gz list of distinct reference citations for reviewed species interaction claims in gzipped tab-separated values format indexed-interactions-col-family-col-family.svg network diagram showing the taxon family to taxon family interaction claims in the dataset under review as interpreted by the Catalogue of Life via Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) indexed-interactions-col-kingdom-col-kingdom.svg network diagram showing the taxon kingdom to taxon kingom interaction claims in the dataset under review as interpreted by the Catalogue of Life via Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) indexed-interactions.csv.gz species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in gzipped comma-separated values format indexed-interactions.html.gz species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in gzipped html format indexed-interactions.tsv.gz species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in gzipped tab-separated values format indexed-interactions.parquet species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in Apache Parquet format indexed-interactions.png species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review plotted on a map indexed-interactions.map mapserver configuration to plot species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review on a map indexed-interactions.gpkg species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in GeoPackage format indexed-interactions-h3.gpkg geospatially clustered h3 species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in GeoPackage format indexed-interactions-sample.csv list of species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in gzipped comma-separated values format indexed-interactions-sample.html first 500 species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in html format indexed-interactions-sample.tsv first 500 species interaction claims indexed from the dataset under review in tab-separated values format indexed-names.csv.gz taxonomic names indexed from the dataset under review in gzipped comma-separated values format indexed-names.html.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review in gzipped html format indexed-names.tsv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review in gzipped tab-separated values format indexed-names.parquet taxonomic names found in the dataset under review in Apache Parquet format indexed-names-resolved-col.csv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Catalogue of Life as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-col.html.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Catalogue of Life as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format indexed-names-resolved-col.tsv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Catalogue of Life as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-col.parquet taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Catalogue of Life as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in Apache Parquet format indexed-names-resolved-discoverlife.csv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Discover Life bee species checklist as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-discoverlife.html.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Discover Life bee species checklist as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format indexed-names-resolved-discoverlife.tsv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Discover Life bee species checklist as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-discoverlife.parquet taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Discover Life bee species checklist as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in Apache Parquet format indexed-names-resolved-gbif.csv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with GBIF Backbone Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-gbif.html.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with GBIF Backbone Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format indexed-names-resolved-gbif.tsv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with GBIF Backbone Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-gbif.parquet taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with GBIF Backbone Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in Apache Parquet format indexed-names-resolved-itis.csv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-itis.html.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format indexed-names-resolved-itis.tsv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-itis.parquet taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in Apache Parquet format indexed-names-resolved-mdd.csv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Mammal Diversity Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-mdd.html.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Mammal Diversity Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format indexed-names-resolved-mdd.tsv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Mammal Diversity Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-mdd.parquet taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Mammal Diversity Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in Apache Parquet format indexed-names-resolved-ncbi.csv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the NCBI Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-ncbi.html.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the NCBI Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format indexed-names-resolved-ncbi.tsv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the NCBI Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-ncbi.parquet taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the NCBI Taxonomy as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in Apache Parquet format indexed-names-resolved-pbdb.csv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Paleobiology Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-pbdb.html.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Paleobiology Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format indexed-names-resolved-pbdb.tsv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Paleobiology Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-pbdb.parquet taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with Paleobiology Database as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in Apache Parquet format indexed-names-resolved-tpt.csv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT) Taxonomic Resource as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-tpt.html.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT) Taxonomic Resource as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format indexed-names-resolved-tpt.tsv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT) Taxonomic Resource as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-tpt.parquet taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT) Taxonomic Resource as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in Apache Parquet format indexed-names-resolved-wfo.csv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World of Flora Online as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-wfo.html.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World of Flora Online as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format indexed-names-resolved-wfo.tsv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World of Flora Online as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-wfo.parquet taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World of Flora Online as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in Apache Parquet format indexed-names-resolved-worms.csv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped comma-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-worms.html.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped html format indexed-names-resolved-worms.tsv.gz taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in gzipped tab-separated values format indexed-names-resolved-worms.parquet taxonomic names found in the dataset under review aligned with the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) as accessed through the Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources (J. H. (ed. ). Poelen 2024) in Apache Parquet format indexed-names-sample.csv first 500 taxonomic names found in the dataset under review in comma-separated values format indexed-names-sample.html first 500 taxonomic names found in the dataset under review in html format indexed-names-sample.tsv first 500 taxonomic names found in the dataset under review in tab-separated values format interaction.svg diagram summarizing the data model used to index species interaction claims nanopub-sample.trig first 500 species interaction claims as expressed in the nanopub format (Kuhn and Dumontier 2014) nanopub.trig.gz species interaction claims as expressed in the nanopub format (Kuhn and Dumontier 2014) process.svg diagram summarizing the data review processing workflow prov.nq origin of the dataset under review as expressed in rdf/nquads review.csv.gz review notes associated with the dataset under review in gzipped comma-separated values format review.html.gz review notes associated with the dataset under review in gzipped html format review.tsv.gz review notes associated with the dataset under review in gzipped tab-separated values format review-sample.csv first 500 review notes associated with the dataset under review in comma-separated values format review-sample.html first 500 review notes associated with the dataset under review in html format review-sample.tsv first 500 review notes associated with the dataset under review in tab-separated values format review.svg a review badge generated as part of the dataset review process zenodo.json metadata of this review expressed in Zenodo record metadata References Elliott, Michael, Jorrit Poelen, Icaro Alzuru, Emilio Berti, and partha04patel. 2025. 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"Nomer Corpus of Taxonomic Resources Hash://Sha256/ B60c0d25a16ae77b24305782017b1a270b79b5d1746f832650 F2027ba536e276 Hash://Md5/17f1363a277ee0e4ecaf1b91c665e47e." Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12695629. Poelen, Jorrit H., James D. Simons, and Chris J. Mungall. 2014. "Global Biotic Interactions: An Open Infrastructure to Share and Analyze Species-Interaction Datasets." Ecological Informatics 24 (November): 148–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.005. Poelen, Jorrit, Katja Seltmann, and Daniel Mietchen. 2024. "Globalbioticinteractions/Globinizer: 0.4.0." Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10647565. Salim, José Augusto, and Jorrit Poelen. 2025. "Globalbioticinteractions/Nomer: 0.5.15." Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14893840. Trekels, Maarten, Debora Pignatari Drucker, José Augusto Salim, Jeff Ollerton, Jorrit Poelen, Filipi Miranda Soares, Max Rünzel, Muo Kasina, Quentin Groom, and Mariano Devoto. 2023. "WorldFAIR Project (D10.1) Agriculture-related pollinator data standards use cases report." Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8176978. Wilkinson, Mark D., Michel Dumontier, IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Gabrielle Appleton, Myles Axton, Arie Baak, Niklas Blomberg, et al. 2016. "The FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship." Scientific Data 3 (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18. Note that you have to first get the data (e.g., via elton pull globalbioticinteractions/foodwebsdatabase) before being able to generate reviews (e.g., elton review globalbioticinteractions/foodwebsdatabase), extract interaction claims (e.g., elton interactions globalbioticinteractions/foodwebsdatabase), or list taxonomic names (e.g., elton names globalbioticinteractions/foodwebsdatabase)↩︎ Disclaimer: The results in this review should be considered friendly, yet naive, notes from an unsophisticated robot. Please keep that in mind when considering the review results.↩︎ Up-to-date status of the GloBI Review Badge can be retrieved from the GloBI Review Depot↩︎ Up-to-date status of the GloBI Index Badge can be retrieved from GloBI's API↩︎ At time of writing (2026-06-03) the version of the GloBI dataset index was available at https://globalbioticinteractions.org/datasets↩︎ According to http://opendefinition.org/: "Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike."↩︎

Life on Earth is sustained by complex interactions between organisms and their environment. These biotic interactions can be captured in datasets and published digitally. We present a review and archiving process for such an openly accessible digital interactions dataset of known origin and discuss its outcome. The dataset under review, named globalbioticinteractions/foodwebsdatabase, has fingerprint hash://md5/7d4d8f3e9d7868e8c84e1d52ac272d64, is 6.88MiB in size and contains 20,823 interactions with 1 unique type of association (e.g., eats) between 362 primary taxa (e.g., Salmo trutta) and 668 associated taxa (e.g., Simuliidae). This report includes detailed summaries of interaction data, a taxonomic review from multiple catalogs, and an archived version of the dataset from which the reviews are derived.