<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div><div><br>On 5 Mar 2018, at 18:12, Markus Döring <<a href="mailto:mdoering@gbif.org">mdoering@gbif.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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Yes, although one could just label a few important and frequently used datasets like the backbone and the Catalogue of Life.
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<div class="">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.<br class="">
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Is there any further information on what a "shortname" - used in the API route <br class="">
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