license: cc-by-nc-4.0
Dataset Card for FishBase
Snapshots of FishBase data tables used by the rOpenSci package rfishbase and the FishBase API.
Dataset Details
Dataset Description
- Curated by: Carl Boettiger
- License: CC-BY-NC, FishBase.org Team
Dataset Sources
https://fishbase.org, https://sealifebase.org, via exclusive export of backend MySQL databases.
Uses
Direct Use
This data is provided to facilitate access to fishbase statistics through rfishbase.
Curation has evolved over the past decade and now provides basically direct access to versioned snapshots of the fishbase backend data.
Out-of-Scope Use
Reuse of this data is not licensed for commerical applications. Developers should contact the FishBase team directly. See https://fishbase.org for details.
Dataset Structure
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. 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. 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 by the version numbers (e.g. v24.07 is data snapshot dated to July of 2024).
Dataset Creation
Dataset creation relies on ingesting a MySQL dump provided roughly annually from the FishBase team to this maintainer. Current process imports this into
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.
Source Data
See https://fishbase.org for details.