On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM Boyd Duffee <boyd.duf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Having no connection to the project but just goaded into it by there only > being a python client to downloading their data, I've written a Perl API > for the "Our World in Data" grapher endpoint at https://ourworldindata.org > > After looking through the maillist archive and given that the python > module for their ETL catalog endpoint is "owid-catalog", I'm thinking that > WebService::Owid or WebService::OWID are the best names for this module (as > mixed caps OWiD is just going to be visually confusing). It's short and > descriptive. > > Which would you find less annoying: all caps, ucfirst? Carolingian > majuscules? > Suggestions for better names welcome. > > Their ETL endpoint is still in beta, but I expect to incorporate that into > the same namespace at a later date. > WebService::OWID seems perfectly reasonable to me and is how the organization abbreviates itself in the footer of its website. -Dan
