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 <mdoering@gbif.org> 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 <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> 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
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