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 a pain for humans. Markus On 5. Mar 2018, at 17:56, 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