On 10/25/2015 09:10 PM, David Blomstrom wrote:
It's also interesting that some entities (e.g. EOL) are now using
something called Life Science ID's (or something like that) in lieu of
traditional scientific names. It sounds like a cool idea, but some of
the LSID's seem awfully big and complex to me. I haven't figured out
exactly what the codes mean.

Aah, the natural key vs surrogate key conversation rears its head.


Then again, when I navigate to the Encyclopedia of Life's aardvark page
@ http://www.eol.org/pages/327830/overview the code is actually
amazingly short.



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Adrian Klaver
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