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The Map of Life
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Internal ID structure #14

Closed andrewxhill closed 13 years ago

andrewxhill commented 13 years ago

I was thinking on the current key structure animalia/rank/value and decided I like it. We can easily mix the first variable with higher level classifications for some groups. I also like the use of the slash. The problem arose in that the slash could conflict with url and static files. But actually, maybe we can use it to our advantage and integrate it into our file storage and URL designs? So if I start processing the SHP files now, the are names like, mam_4176.shp which corresponds to an internal datastore key_name of animalia/species/abditomys_latiden so, I'll just store a shp file in dir animalia, dir species, file abditomys_latiden.shp which will make it a bit more structured anyway.

Thoughts on this Aaron?

eightysteele commented 13 years ago

so, I'll just store a shp file in dir animalia, dir species, file abditomys_latiden.shp

Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. A big +1 all around.

andrewxhill commented 13 years ago

Seems like this has rippled through all the appropriate Issues. Done