[API-users] More information on "shortname"?

[Peter]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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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