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+#! /usr/bin/env julia
+
+## gbarchive
+##
+## - Low-level library for reading GBIF archive files.
+## - Endpoint API design following: [paleobioDB](https://github.com/ropensci/paleobioDB).
+## - Client code is expected to handle issues with bad, missing, malformed, invalid,
+##   etc. archives.
+##
+## Copyright (c) 2025 Jeet Sukumaran
+##
+## Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+## of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+## in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+## to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+## copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+## furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+##
+## The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+## copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+##
+## THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+## IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+## FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+## AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+## LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+## OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+## SOFTWARE.
+##
+
+using CSV
+using ZipArchives: ZipReader, zip_names, zip_readentry
+using DataFrames: DataFrame
+using SpeciesDistributionToolkit
+
+"""
+    gbifarchive_io(path::AbstractString) -> IOBuffer
+
+Open a compressed GBIF occurrence archive and return an `IOBuffer` for the
+occurrence table.
+
+Supports both the GBIF "Simple" archive format and the "Darwin Core"
+(DwC) archive download layout.
+
+# Arguments
+- `path`: Filesystem path to a `.zip` GBIF archive file.
+
+# Returns
+- `IOBuffer`: In-memory byte stream of the selected occurrence table.
+
+# See also
+[`gbifarchive_csv`](@ref), [`gbifarchive_df`](@ref), Darwin Core: <https://dwc.tdwg.org/>
+"""
+function gbifarchive_io(path::AbstractString)::IOBuffer
+    return (
+            path
+            |> read
+            |> ZipReader
+            |> za -> (za, "occurrence.txt" in  zip_names(za) ? "occurrence.txt" : zip_names(za)[1])
+            |> za_entry -> zip_readentry(za_entry[1], za_entry[2])
+            |> source -> IOBuffer(source)
+    )
+end
+
+"""
+    gbifarchive_csv(path::AbstractString) -> CSV.File
+
+Parse a GBIF occurrence archive at `path` into a `CSV.File`.
+
+# Arguments
+- `path`: Path to a GBIF `.zip` archive.
+
+# Returns
+- `CSV.File`: Streamable, table-compatible view of the occurrence data.
+
+# See also
+- [`gbifarchive_df`](@ref) for an eager `DataFrame`.
+"""
+function gbifarchive_csv(path::AbstractString)::CSV.File
+    return (
+        path
+        |> gbifarchive_io
+        |> source_io -> CSV.File(source_io; delim = '\t')
+    )
+end
+
+"""
+    gbifarchive_df(path::AbstractString) -> DataFrame
+
+Read a GBIF occurrence archive at `path` into a `DataFrame`.
+
+# Arguments
+- `path`: Path to a GBIF `.zip` archive.
+
+# Returns
+- `DataFrame`: Eager tabular data of the occurrences.
+
+# See also
+- [`gbifarchive_csv`](@ref)
+"""
+function gbifarchive_df(path::AbstractString)::DataFrame
+    path |> gbifarchive_csv |> DataFrame
+end
+
+"""
+    gbifarchive_sdmt(path::AbstractString)
+        -> OccurrencesInterface.Occurrences
+
+Convert a GBIF occurrence archive into `OccurrencesInterface.Occurrences`
+records suitable for use with
+[SpeciesDistributionToolkit.jl](https://github.com/EcoJulia/SpeciesDistributionToolkit.jl).
+
+# Arguments
+- `path`: Path to a GBIF `.zip` archive.
+
+# Returns
+- `OccurrencesInterface.Occurrences`: A collection of occurrence records as
+  materialized by `SpeciesDistributionToolkit.GBIF._materialize`.
+
+# See also
+- SpeciesDistributionToolkit.jl: <https://github.com/EcoJulia/SpeciesDistributionToolkit.jl>
+"""
+function gbifarchive_sdmt(path::AbstractString)::OccurrencesInterface.Occurrences
+    return (
+        path
+        |> gbifarchive_csv
+        |> csv -> SpeciesDistributionToolkit.GBIF._materialize.(OccurrencesInterface.Occurrence, csv)
+        |> OccurrencesInterface.Occurrences
+    )
+end
+
+"""
+    gbifarchive_locations(path::AbstractString)
+        -> Vector{Tuple{Float64, Float64}}
+
+    gbifarchive_locations(csv_file::CSV.File)
+        -> Vector{Tuple{Float64, Float64}}
+
+Extract `(lon, lat)` coordinate pairs from a GBIF archive or from a `CSV.File`.
+
+# Arguments
+- `path`: Path to a GBIF `.zip` archive; the occurrence table is parsed internally.
+- `csv_file`: A `CSV.File` already pointing at occurrence rows.
+
+# Returns
+- `Vector{Tuple{Float64,Float64}}`: Longitude–latitude pairs.
+
+# Interoperability
+The returned vector is a drop-in replacement for a table of coordinates accepted
+by [SpeciesDistributionModels.jl](https://github.com/tiemvanderdeure/SpeciesDistributionModels.jl).
+"""
+function gbifarchive_locations(path::AbstractString)::Vector{Tuple{Float64, Float64}}
+    path |> gbifarchive_csv |> gbifarchive_locations
+end
+
+function gbifarchive_locations(csv_file::CSV.File)::Vector{Tuple{Float64, Float64}}
+    map(csv_file) do csv_row
+        return (csv_row.decimalLongitude, csv_row.decimalLatitude)
+    end
+end