That makes sense to have shortname's for frequently used datasets.
Peter: nice, but i guess in theory different groups of people submitting
data could come up with the same name?
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 10:03 AM Peter wrote:
> Interesting. We try be consistent in how we shortname our datasets on
Interesting. We try be consistent in how we shortname our datasets on the IPT,
which ends up in their URLs, and we use the same name for the GitHub
repo/directory. Examples: alien-fishes-checklist, bird-tracking-occurrences.
They might not be globally unique, but it could be useful to find them
Yes, although one could just label a few important and frequently used datasets
like the backbone and the Catalogue of Life.
On 5. Mar 2018, at 18:10, Scott Chamberlain
mailto:myrmecocys...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Markus,
Thanks for the quick reply. I have no preference on this. I guess as numbe
Hi Markus,
Thanks for the quick reply. I have no preference on this. I guess as number
of datasets increase the unique shortname's will start to get rather long.
Best, Scott
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:56 AM Scott Chamberlain
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any further information on what a "shortname"
Hi Scott,
yes, thats the idea. It didn't get picked up though, so I am not sure if there
are any shortnames in existence that can act as an alias for a dataset.
nub, itis, col were supposed to be such shortnames.
If in general people find this a useful thing we could try to revive it.
UUID can be
