Are all networks contained in projects db?

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Are all networks contained in projects db? #4

Open peterdesmet opened 8 years ago

peterdesmet commented 8 years ago

It looks like "Biodiversity Information Networks Database" is a predecessor of "Biodiversity Information Projects of the World". The latter contains more fields, records and similar entries. The Canadensys network for example is present in both:

@sblum Is that true? What is the difference between both DBs? Can we merge them?

sblum commented 8 years ago

I'm afraid I don't know the history of the two compilations. I can only guess by looking at content. Or ask Lee Belbin. I think I'll do that, since I should email him anyway.

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peterdesmet commented 8 years ago

Good to ask Lee!

On second inspection, it looks like almost all networks are NOT in the project database. But since the database structure is very similar and it's often hard to decide if something is a network or project (at least to me), I would keep them in the same repo and - as part of a cleaning action - combine them in one database, with a field indicating project or network.