Package 'movepub'

Title: Prepare Movebank Data for Publication
Description: Prepare animal tracking data from 'Movebank' (<https://movebank.org>) for publication in a research repository. With 'movepub' you can document data with metadata following the Data Package standard and transform these to Darwin Core and Ecological Metadata Language ('EML') for publication to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility ('GBIF') and the Ocean Biodiversity Information System ('OBIS').
Authors: Peter Desmet [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025>, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)), Sanne Govaert [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8939-1305>, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)), Sarah Davidson [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2766-9201>, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior), Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) [cph] (https://www.vlaanderen.be/inbo/en-gb/), NLBIF [fnd] (https://www.nlbif.nl/move2gbif-gps-zendergegevens-van-dieren-mobiliseren-naar-movebank-en-gbif/), European Union [fnd] (https://dto-bioflow.eu/)
Maintainer: Peter Desmet <[email protected]>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Version: 0.3.0
Built: 2024-12-19 05:54:32 UTC
Source: https://github.com/inbo/movepub

Help Index


Add Movebank data to a Frictionless Data Package

Description

Adds Movebank data (reference-data, gps, acceleration, accessory-measurements) as a Data Resource to a Frictionless Data Package. The function extends frictionless::add_resource(). The title, definition, format and URI of each field are looked up in the latest version of the Movebank Attribute Dictionary and included in the Table Schema of the resource.

Usage

add_resource(package, resource_name, files, keys = TRUE)

Arguments

package

Data Package object, as returned by read_package() or create_package().

resource_name

Name of the Data Resource.

files

One or more paths to CSV file(s) that contain the data for this resource, as a character (vector).

keys

If TRUE, primaryKey and foreignKey properties are added to the Table Schema.

Details

See Get started for examples.

Value

Provided package with one additional resource.


Get DataCite metadata as EML

Description

Get metadata from DataCite and transform to EML.

Usage

datacite_to_eml(doi)

Arguments

doi

DOI of a dataset.

Value

EML list that can be extended and/or written to file with EML::write_eml().

See Also

Other support functions: get_aphia_id(), get_mvb_term()


Get WoRMS AphiaID from a taxonomic name

Description

This function wraps worrms::wm_name2id_() so that it returns a data frame rather than a list. It also silences "not found" warnings, returning NA instead.

Usage

get_aphia_id(x)

Arguments

x

A (vector with) taxonomic name(s).

Value

Data frame with name, aphia_id, aphia_lsid and aphia_url.

See Also

Other support functions: datacite_to_eml(), get_mvb_term()

Examples

get_aphia_id("Mola mola")
get_aphia_id(c("Mola mola", "not_a_name"))

Get term from the Movebank Attribute Dictionary

Description

Search a term by its label in the Movebank Attribute Dictionary (MVB). Returns in order: term with matching prefLabel, matching altLabel or error when no matching term is found.

Usage

get_mvb_term(label)

Arguments

label

Label of the term to look for. Case will be ignored and -, ⁠_⁠, . and : interpreted as space.

Value

List with term information.

See Also

Other support functions: datacite_to_eml(), get_aphia_id()

Examples

get_mvb_term("animal_id")

get_mvb_term("Deploy.On.Date")

Sample Movebank dataset with GPS tracking data

Description

A sample Movebank dataset with GPS tracking data, formatted as a Frictionless Data Package and read by read_package().

Usage

o_assen

Format

An object of class datapackage (inherits from list) of length 7.

Details

This sample is derived from the Zenodo-deposited dataset Dijkstra et al. (2022), but excludes the acceleration data.

Source

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10053903

Examples

## Not run: 
# The data in o_assen was created with the code below
o_assen <-
  read_package("https://zenodo.org/records/10053903/files/datapackage.json") %>%
  remove_resource("acceleration")
o_assen$title <- "O_ASSEN - Eurasian oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus, Haematopodidae) breeding in Assen (the Netherlands)"
o_assen$licenses[[1]]$name <- "CC0-1.0"
o_assen$contributors[[1]]$title <- "Vogelwerkgroep Assen"
o_assen$contributors[[1]]$role <- "rightsHolder"
usethis::use_data(o_assen, overwrite = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

Transform Movebank data to a Darwin Core Archive

Description

Transforms a Movebank dataset (formatted as a Frictionless Data Package) to a Darwin Core Archive.

Usage

write_dwc(
  package,
  directory,
  dataset_id = package$id,
  dataset_name = package$title,
  license = NULL,
  rights_holder = NULL
)

Arguments

package

A Frictionless Data Package of Movebank data, as returned by read_package(). It is expected to contain a reference-data and gps resource.

directory

Path to local directory to write files to.

dataset_id

Identifier for the dataset.

dataset_name

Title of the dataset.

license

License of the dataset.

rights_holder

Acronym of the organization owning or managing the rights over the data.

Details

The resulting files can be uploaded to an IPT for publication to GBIF and/or OBIS. A corresponding eml.xml metadata file can be created with write_eml(). See vignette("movepub") for an example.

Value

CSV and meta.xml files written to disk. And invisibly, a list of data frames with the transformed data.

Transformation details

This function follows recommendations suggested by Peter Desmet, Sarah Davidson, John Wieczorek and others and transforms data to:

Key features of the Darwin Core transformation:

  • Deployments (animal+tag associations) are parent events, with tag attachment (a human observation) and GPS positions (machine observations) as child events. No information about the parent event is provided other than its ID, meaning that data can be expressed in an Occurrence core with one row per observation and parentEventID shared by all occurrences in a deployment.

  • The tag attachment event often contains metadata about the animal (sex, life stage, comments) and deployment as a whole. The sex and life stage are additionally provided in an Extended Measurement Or Facts extension, where values are mapped to a controlled vocabulary recommended by OBIS.

  • No event/occurrence is created for the deployment end, since the end date is often undefined, unreliable and/or does not represent an animal occurrence.

  • Only visible (non-outlier) GPS records that fall within a deployment are included.

  • GPS positions are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour, to reduce the size of high-frequency data. It is possible for a deployment to contain no GPS positions, e.g. if the tag malfunctioned right after deployment.

  • Parameters or metadata are used to set the following record-level terms:

    • dwc:datasetID: dataset_id, defaulting to package$id.

    • dwc:datasetName: dataset_name, defaulting to package$title.

    • dcterms:license: license, defaulting to the first license name (e.g. CC0-1.0) in package$licenses.

    • dcterms:rightsHolder: rights_holder, defaulting to the first contributor in package$contributors with role rightsHolder.

See Also

Other dwc functions: write_eml()

Examples

write_dwc(o_assen, directory = "my_directory")

# Clean up (don't do this if you want to keep your files)
unlink("my_directory", recursive = TRUE)

Transform Movebank metadata to EML

Description

Transforms the metadata of a published Movebank dataset (with a DOI) to an Ecological Metadata Language (EML) file.

Usage

write_eml(
  doi,
  directory,
  contact = NULL,
  study_id = NULL,
  derived_paragraph = TRUE
)

Arguments

doi

DOI of the original dataset, used to get metadata.

directory

Path to local directory to write files to.

contact

Person to be set as resource contact and metadata provider. To be provided as a person().

study_id

Identifier of the Movebank study from which the dataset was derived (e.g. 1605797471 for this study).

derived_paragraph

If TRUE, a paragraph will be added to the abstract, indicating that data have been transformed using write_dwc().

Details

The resulting EML file can be uploaded to an IPT for publication to GBIF and/or OBIS. A corresponding Darwin Core Archive can be created with write_dwc(). See vignette("movepub") for an example.

Value

eml.xml file written to disk. And invisibly, an EML::eml object.

Transformation details

Metadata are derived from the original dataset by looking up its doi in DataCite (example) and transforming these to EML. The following properties are set:

  • title: Original dataset title.

  • description: Original dataset description. If derived_paragraph = TRUE a generated paragraph is added, e.g.:

    Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Dijkstra et al. (2023, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10053903), a deposit of Movebank study 1605797471.

  • license: License of the original dataset.

  • creators: Creators of the original dataset.

  • contact: contact or first creator of the original dataset.

  • metadata provider: contact or first creator of the original dataset.

  • keywords: Keywords of the original dataset.

  • alternative identifier: DOI of the original dataset. As a result, no new DOI will be created when publishing to GBIF.

  • external link and alternative identifier: URL created from study_id or the first ⁠derived from⁠ related identifier in the original dataset.

The following properties are not set:

  • type

  • subtype

  • update frequency

  • publishing organization

  • geographic coverage

  • taxonomic coverage

  • temporal coverage

  • associated parties

  • project data

  • sampling methods

  • citations

  • collection data: not applicable.

See Also

Other dwc functions: write_dwc()

Examples

(write_eml(doi = "10.5281/zenodo.10053903", directory = "my_directory"))

# Clean up (don't do this if you want to keep your files)
unlink("my_directory", recursive = TRUE)