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names in lowercase #22

Open jcolomb opened 4 years ago

jcolomb commented 4 years ago

should name be indicated in all lowercase ?

I would keep everything in lowercase, to make it case-insensitive and more robust towards CAPS LOCK and other capitalization errors (or is there a particular use-case where differing in the cases would be important?)

Interesting thought, I wonder if capitalisation of name could be different in different part of the world. It would feel strance to write my name without capital letter, though. Note, if we ever expand to have title information, the capitalisation would be important, as some terminology requires captitalisation (for insance, foxP is a gene FoxP is a protein)

mjaquiery commented 2 years ago

I would suggest keeping capitalisation in names, roles, etc. etc. Where possible, we encourage the use of case-insensitive identifiers (RINGOLD, ORCiD, etc.) so machine-reading shouldn't be hindered by mismatched capitals too badly.

Generally, I think a data representation format should concern itself with representing the data, and tools built on top of JAMS can handle decisions about whether or not to modify capitalisation on fields.