Dead Wood Interaction Data Workshop: Knowledge Base

Availability of species interaction datasets is limited

Open Data, Open Science, and FAIR principles facilitate data availability

Many species interaction datasets are openly published

Interaction data are shared in various ways

Many interaction data records have common data elements

Reviewing data can be time consuming

Automated taxonomic name linking facilitates discovery, review, and interpretation, of interaction records

Keeping track of data provenance/origins can be tricky

Specialized search indexes like GloBI can help facilitate data discovery

Automated linking and index processes are likely imperfect and subjective

GloBI has interaction data that can be accessed as a full dataset

Better to use the full or whole dataset than the APIs

There is a lot of interaction data available and shell is one helpful tool to reduce the size of the dataset.

Sharing code helps everyone.

Web tools are for exploring indexed data and providing feedback

Web tools facilitate communication within biodiversity data community

Web tools are dynamic and subject to change

GloBI is built using existing data sources

Data sources are continously and automatically indexed by GloBI

GloBI provides automated reviews of data sources

Taxonomic name linking facilitates discovery, review, and interpretation, of interaction records

GloBI uses a versioned taxonomic name map to map verbatim names into known taxonomic schemes

GloBI attempts to provide reasonable links using a controlled and iterative process

GloBI taxonomic name linking process is likely imperfect and subjective

There are many ways to access GloBI reviews.

GloBI reviews can help data managers better understand their data and how GloBI interprets it.

Ecological network data can be multi-faceted and complex

Many existing methods exist to visualize and quantify ecological networks

Working with big datasets often requires different tools and skills

Data processing introduces errors and bias

Many tools are suited for small datasets only