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 <myrmecocystus@gmail.com<mailto:myrmecocystus@gmail.com>> 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 <myrmecocystus@gmail.com<mailto:myrmecocystus@gmail.com>> 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 API-users@lists.gbif.org<mailto:API-users@lists.gbif.org> https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users