AOU species codes

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    1. spatialed Top Contributor Freebase Experts
      Dec 19, 2007
      spatialed says:

      Hi jg,

      'AOU 2006 four letter species code' and 'AOU 2006 six letter species code', which will help speed up bird entries. I've only entered one topic so far:   http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006c87ea7

      They both fall under the type Classification class name I created (it can always be renamed), which is a catchall type for any classification code.

      As an administrator of the Biology domain, I'd like to get your input on them and how to maintain codes like these. Do we really want Freebase filling up with abstract codes? Does it matter? 

      Thanks,  -Ed

      2. spatialed Top Contributor Freebase Experts
        Dec 19, 2007
        spatialed says:

        Sorry about the bad link. Here is the correct one.

      3. jg Metaweb Staff
        Dec 21, 2007
        jg says:

        Hi.  Codes like this are very valuable, they are foreign keys that help reconcile different databases.   Our preference is to import them as namespaces though, like /biology/AOU6 so that they can be used as ids.  Im currently loading a bunch of taxo data on sandbox with a /biology/itis namespace for example.  Ill contact you by email about the bird data you have.


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