IE, if a piece of data should be versioned as a datestamp, there should be a parameter to first check if the latest locally-available data bears today's date, and only check if there's a newer version available if it isn't.
This is sort of a "soft" median between the existing options, which are "never check against the source" and "always check against the source".
I'm interested in this for some NCBI resources, because NCBI pretty clearly throttles you if you are performing a lot of checks against their API.
IE, if a piece of data should be versioned as a datestamp, there should be a parameter to first check if the latest locally-available data bears today's date, and only check if there's a newer version available if it isn't.
This is sort of a "soft" median between the existing options, which are "never check against the source" and "always check against the source".
I'm interested in this for some NCBI resources, because NCBI pretty clearly throttles you if you are performing a lot of checks against their API.