cboettig commited on
Commit
92f1a30
·
verified ·
1 Parent(s): 5a3709e

Update README.md

Browse files
Files changed (1) hide show
  1. README.md +63 -3
README.md CHANGED
@@ -1,3 +1,63 @@
1
- ---
2
- license: cc-by-nc-4.0
3
- ---
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ ---
2
+ license: cc-by-nc-4.0
3
+ ---
4
+
5
+ # Dataset Card for FishBase
6
+
7
+ <!-- Provide a quick summary of the dataset. -->
8
+
9
+ Snapshots of FishBase data tables used by the [rOpenSci package `rfishbase`](https://github.com/ropensci/rfishbase) and the FishBase API.
10
+
11
+ ## Dataset Details
12
+
13
+ ### Dataset Description
14
+
15
+ <!-- Provide a longer summary of what this dataset is. -->
16
+
17
+
18
+
19
+ - **Curated by:** Carl Boettiger
20
+ - **License:** CC-BY-NC, FishBase.org Team
21
+
22
+ ### Dataset Sources [optional]
23
+
24
+ <!-- Provide the basic links for the dataset. -->
25
+
26
+ - **Repository:** [More Information Needed]
27
+ - **Paper [optional]:** [More Information Needed]
28
+ - **Demo [optional]:** [More Information Needed]
29
+
30
+ ## Uses
31
+
32
+ <!-- Address questions around how the dataset is intended to be used. -->
33
+
34
+ ### Direct Use
35
+
36
+ This data is provided to facilitate access to fishbase statistics through `rfishbase`.
37
+ Curation has evolved over the past decade and now provides basically direct access to versioned snapshots of the fishbase backend data.
38
+
39
+ [More Information Needed]
40
+
41
+ ### Out-of-Scope Use
42
+
43
+ Reuse of this data is not licensed for commerical applications. Developers should contact the FishBase team directly. See <https://fishbase.org> for details.
44
+
45
+ ## Dataset Structure
46
+
47
+ Data provided here are raw CSV and parquet exports from the MySQL database backend powering <https://fishbase.org> and its sister site, <https://sealifebase.org>.
48
+ Please note that there are many tables here which have evolved over decades and were not developed with the intent of ever supporting direct access by end users.
49
+ The data structure can be highly unintuitive and common tasks may require joins across multiple tables. These files represent a snapshot in time as indicated
50
+ by the version numbers (e.g. v24.07 is data snapshot dated to July of 2024).
51
+
52
+ ## Dataset Creation
53
+
54
+ Dataset creation relies on ingesting a MySQL dump provided roughly annually from the FishBase team to this maintainer. Current process imports this into
55
+ a MySQL (mariadb) server in docker, connects a the `duckdb` `mysql` extension and exports as parquet and csv, as shown in the `creation.py` script.
56
+
57
+
58
+
59
+ ### Source Data
60
+
61
+ See <https://fishbase.org> for details.
62
+
63
+