Hi all,
This is a follow-up to the brief discussion at the end of our meeting today. I had an idea in the shower (where I frequently have creative thoughts – must be something about being more relaxed) about what to use as a short abbreviation for Humboldt extension IRIs. As an official name for Humboldt, we call it the “Humboldt Extension for Ecological Inventories” or something like that. That already has the benefit of telling people what it’s about. Then for the abbreviation we either use “eco” or “inv” as the abbreviation instead of “humboldt” or “hmbldt”. That would make the IRIs either
http://rs.tdwg.org/eco/term/foo
or
http://rs.tdwg.org/inv/term/foo
which would be abbreviated as “eco:foo” or “inv:foo” respectively, following the established patterns we already are using in TDWG.
This would have the added benefit of not confusing anybody if we suddenly discover that Humboldt was an evil space alien or something and decide we don’t want to name the extension after him anymore. Yes, I know that sounds weird, but Audubon Core is rebranding as Audiovisual Core and fortunately we can still use “ac:” without confusing anybody. This solution would also dodge that potential future problem.
I haven’t checked to see if “eco” or “inv” are already being used by any well-known vocabularies, but I’ll do that if this idea gets any traction.
Thoughts?
--
Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D. he/him/his
Data Science and Data Curation Specialist / Librarian III
Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235, USA
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Executive Committee/Technical Architecture Group Chair
From: tdwg-humboldt <tdwg-humboldt-bounces@lists.tdwg.org> on behalf of ys628 <yanina.sica@yale.edu>
Reply-To: Humboldt Core TG <tdwg-humboldt@lists.tdwg.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 1:55 PM
To: Humboldt Core TG <tdwg-humboldt@lists.tdwg.org>, "wmh6@cornell.edu" <wmh6@cornell.edu>
Subject: [tdwg-humboldt] Humboldt Task Group Meeting Wed 15 February 2023, 08:00 EST/13:00 UTC
Hi valentines!
I hope everybody is great.
Let meet tomorrow and discuss the following items:
Yanina V. Sica, PhD
Lead Data Team
Yale University
pronouns: she/her/hers
If you are receiving this email outside of your working hours, I am not expecting you to read or respond.