egonw / compact-ids-in-reports

Write up on how to use compact identifiers in project reports.
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`taxonomy:9606` is an iffy example #3

Closed cthoyt closed 3 weeks ago

cthoyt commented 3 weeks ago

It's really good to mention highly used namespaces, but the taxonomy prefix is a perfect example of how different communities reuse the same prefix to actually mean different things

Identifiers.org didn't do us a big favor in being non-specific with this one, and the Bioregistry tried to steer this on course by using NCBITaxon as the preferred prefix for this resource

I don't think that the target audience will appreciate this nuance in a short document, so i'd suggest using a different example

larsgw commented 3 weeks ago

Perhaps col:6MB3T?

egonw commented 3 weeks ago

Thanks, applied.