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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