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Marine data mobilization workshop for Biology and Ecosystem Essential Ocean Variables (Bio-Eco EOV) as a Contribution to the UN Decade on Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
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minor remarks on occurrenceID #39

Closed ymgan closed 1 year ago

MathewBiddle commented 1 year ago

@albenson-usgs I'm assigning this to you. This PR proposes the addition of the following sentence to the comment of the occurrenceID

It is preferred to use the fields that are least likely to change in the future for this.

I think it's a fine addition, FWIW.

ymgan commented 1 year ago

Thanks Mathew! The reason I suggested this is we had data provider who had their dataset reviewed (by a certain journal) which requested them to change the scientificName to accepted name. This led to unintentional change of the identifiers as aphiaID was used to construct occurrenceID that way.

We want to make sure that the occurrenceID is as stable as possible because we want people to be able to trace it. They may unintentionally change it if they use the fields that are likely to change. I guess that's one of the downside of composite identifiers. I hope this makes sense! Btw, thank you very much for preparing the training materials!