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[seltmann]

@jhpoelen In continuation of a recent conversation about improving data publication text and formatting, I wanted to demo a new trend in Symbiota portal management. People are starting to publish portal contents (backup DwC-A files) to Zenodo and add the badge to portal metadata. I did this with the products of a recent review publication of UCSB-IZC. See https://ecdysis.org/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=38

How can we make the output report from elton/preston more human readable? Can we also include the archived DwC-A files without modification and make it clear where those live? Thanks!

[jhpoelen]

@seltmann good to hear that folks are using available data publication platforms like https://zenodo.org to help keep copies around.

How can we make the output report from elton/preston more human readable?

Thanks for asking! I've been experimenting using pandoc to generate review reports like:
https://depot.globalbioticinteractions.org/reviews/globalbioticinteractions/ucsb-izc/
see also https://depot.globalbioticinteractions.org/reviews/globalbioticinteractions/ucsb-izc/index.docx .

see attached screenshot below.

Can we also include the archived DwC-A files without modification and make it clear where those live?

Yes, we can include the archived DwC-A files. I you can propose a text paragraph you'd like to see in the review report, and a proposed citation and hints on where to get the archive, I can try and add this to the review report.

Note that the review report in embedded in some GloBI review workflow, but I can imagine that modifications of these workflows can be applied to non-GloBI stuff also.