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 <mdoer...@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 <myrmecocys...@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 <myrmecocys...@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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