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+This directory holds files obtained via [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/).
+
+# Downloaded Files
+- `latest-all.json.bz2` <br>
+ Obtained from <https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/> (on 23/08/22).
+ Format info can be found at <https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/md_docs_topics_json.html>.
+
+# Other Files
+- `gen_taxon_src_data.py` <br>
+ Used to generate a database holding taxon information from the dump.
+- `offsets.dat` <br>
+ Holds bzip2 block offsets for the dump. Generated and used by
+ genTaxonSrcData.py for parallel processing of the dump.
+- `taxon_srcs.db` <br>
+ Generated by `gen_taxon_src_data.py`. <br>
+ Tables: <br>
+ - `src_id_to_title`: `src TEXT, id INT, title TEXT, PRIMARY KEY(src, id)`
+ - `title_iucn`: `title TEXT PRIMARY KEY, status TEXT`