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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