movepub

movepub is an R package to prepare animal tracking data from Movebank 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).

To get started, see:

Prepare your study: guidelines on how data owners should prepare their study in Movebank for archiving, prior to using this package.
Get started: an introduction to the package’s main functionalities.
Function reference: overview of all functions.

Note that Movebank users retain ownership of their data, and use should follow the general Movebank terms of use and any other license terms set by the owner.

Installation

You can install the development version of movepub from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
# pak::pak("inbo/movepub")
install.packages("movepub", repos = c('https://inbo.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Usage

This package supports two use cases:

Make a Movebank dataset “frictionless” with add_resource(). This is useful when publishing a dataset on e.g. Zenodo.
Transform a Movebank dataset to Darwin Core with write_dwc(). This is necessary when publishing a dataset to GBIF and/or OBIS.