The mysterious interaction resource claiming that otters eat beavers as made through Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI, http://globalbioticinteractions.org). For context see globalbioticinteractions/globalbioticinteractions#118 and globalbioticinteractions/globalbioticinteractions#142 .
The file interactions.tsv is a suggestion on how to encode your interaction data using a tab separated file format (tsv) in combination with columns described below. This provides an example on how to capture your data in a human and machine friendly way and keep it relatively doable to update the file using a basic text editor. Other formats are supported, just let us know about the syntax, and we'll make it work.
| term | example | description |
|---|---|---|
| sourceTaxonId | EOL:328583 | taxon classification id of originating organism in some taxon name authority |
| sourceTaxonName | Enhydra lutris | scientific name of taxon classification of originating organism |
| interactionTypeId | RO:0002470 | id of interaction as described by the OBO Relations Ontology |
| interactionTypeName | eats | human readable description of interactions |
| targetTaxonId | EOL:1971 | taxon classification id of originating organisms |
| targetTaxonName | Echinoidea | scientific name of taxon classification of target organism of interaction |
| localityId | GEONAMES:5391961 | reference to geo classification like geonames.org, gazetteer or other. |
| localityName | San Francisco Bay, California, USA | human readable description of locale |
| decimalLatitude | -41.0983423 | latitude of geographic center of interaction observation location http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#decimalLatitude |
| decimalLongitude | -121.1761111 | longtide of geographic center of interaction observation location http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#decimalLongitude |
| observationDateTime | 2014-11-18T06:37:04Z | ISO 8601 formatted date time string |
| referenceDoi | doi:10.3354/dao002147 | Digital Object Id (DOI, http://doi.org) is commonly used to give papers, datasets or other digital object a permanent id |
| referenceCitation | Jangoux, M. 1986 Diseases of Echinodermata. I. Agents microorganisms and protistans Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (Impact Factor: 1.59) 2:147-162. doi:10.3354/dao002147 | human readable reference |