Butterflyfish interaction data

[salkeith]

Hello. I have a dataset with congeneric butterflyfish encounters (>5000) and whether they are passive or aggressive, and butterflyfish feeding data (on scleractinian corals). They have been used in 2 papers so far https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0314-7 ; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.2158. I have just come across GloBI and thought it might be possible to share the data on there but don't have enough time to figure out how to share (I had quick look Zenodo!). Can you help? Thanks, Sally

[jhpoelen]

@salkeith hey Sally - thanks for reaching out. Can you point to the (raw) data that contain the butterfly fish encounters and feeding records?

I noticed https://github.com/salkeith/CompetitorRecognition , and I assume that you keep the original files elsewhere. Is that correct?

[salkeith]

Ah, I'd forgotten that was there! All the encounter/aggression data is in that repository, although I've also attached here a csv with all aggression data up to July 2017 (we have a bit more now but this is the bulk of it). The feeding data is only on my computer at the moment and attached here as a bunch of CSVs. I have it as a single Rdata file but Github didnt like that.

FeedGenus_BaliNov2015.csv
FeedGenus_ChristmasJunJul2017_JP.csv
FeedGenus_ChristmasSept2015_JP.csv
FeedGenus_ChristmasSept2015.csv
FeedGenus_PhilippinesApr2016.csv
FeedSpecies_AcehFeb2017.csv
FeedSpecies_BaliJuly2016.csv
FeedSpecies_IriomoteJune2016.csv
FeedSpecies_IriomoteJune2017.csv
FeedSpecies_KimbeOct2016.csv
FeedSpecies_PhilippinesOct2016.csv
AggressionDataJuly2017MASTER.csv

[jhpoelen]

@salkeith Hey Sally - thanks for sharing your raw datasets. Would you be open to having GloBI index these data? If so, what would be a good place for your to publish your data is a citable way? I'd prefer publishing the data in a separate github repository that you own. Then, once the repository is looking ok, we can enable it for GloBI indexing. Then, you can choose the publish a "release" or a version of the data to Zenodo.

Curious to hear your thoughts,
-jorrit

[salkeith]

Yes I would :) It is just a case of when I get around to formatting it appropriately. How would you need the csv files set out? Then I can collate those and pop them on a GitHub respository as you suggest. Thanks

[jhpoelen]

Yes I would :)

Great!

It is just a case of when I get around to formatting it appropriately. How would you need the csv files set out? Then I can collate those and pop them on a GitHub respository as you suggest.

If you create a github repo with csv files as-is including a README to document their origin, I can try and add schema definitions to register the individual csv files with GloBI. Then, you can choose to make changes when needed.

I think the important thing is to get the data out as-is, so that others (like me) can chime in and help make the data more accessible. Much easier than going back in time, putting on scuba gear and getting new observations ; )

[salkeith]

Okey dokey. Will do as soon as I get chance - probably next week as I have lots of teaching this week

[jhpoelen]

Thanks for teaching . . . @salkeith . If you ever need someone to talk about the importance of Biodiversity Informatics, I'd be happy to connect you some some inspired folks ; )

[salkeith]

Just getting the final go ahead from others who contributed to the dataset. I don't anticipate any problems...

[salkeith]

Apologies I haven’t got any further with this, I haven’t forgotten but have just had a knee op and recovering - will get to it ASAP.

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[jhpoelen]

@salkeith Thanks for your note. Wishing you a speedy recovery, and let me know if there's anything I can do to get these butterfish interaction records indexed in GloBI.