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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 on GBIF using this shortname, but no problem if that > is not possible. > > Peter > > On 5 Mar 2018, at 18:12, Markus Döring <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there any further information on what a "shortname" - used in the API >> route >> >> /species/root/{uuid|shortname} >> >> described at https://www.gbif.org/developer/species >> >> I assume "uuid|shortname" is uuid OR a shortname. So perhaps shortname >> is a short name for a dataset? >> >> Thanks, Scott >> > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > > > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > >
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