Closed jhpoelen closed 7 years ago
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@millerse just curious - I am noticing that in globi.json
, the file http://invertebrates.si.edu/pdfs/NationalParasiteCollection_29-May-2014.txt is used. So, this means that GloBI is using a file that is external to the github repository. Would it be an idea to copy the file to the github repo as is and globi.json
to it? In the citation, you can then mention where you got the file from and we'll have a independently archived copy with doi of it in Zenodo.
Curious to hear your thoughts on this.
ps thanks for all the hard work and being patient with me!
@jhpoelen There is always the hope that the Entomology department will update the collection and that will be captured easily. I assumed that the tsv files are used as a copy of the dataset for archive purpose. Hope that makes sense.
Ah yes, that makes total sense. Perhaps we should figure out a way to indicate the original source and their archived copies. . . . something to think about.
GloBI doesn't support xlsx . . . the format is not quite suitable for data archives: proprietary format and hard to digest by programs. So, suggest to save the xlsx as a tsv (tab separated values) and update the globi.json accordingly.