okfn/openspending — Issue #401: Introduce dataset naming convention
Author: gka
Created: 2012-02-01 23:50:04+00:00
State: open

While checking some of the older bubbletree demos I noticed that __almost all datasets have changed their name__ since. For instance, the UK county regional spending was named _"cra"_ once and is now named _"ukgov-finances-cra"_. This is, of course, a big problem if we want people to build their apps based on openspending data.

I think the main reason for renaming a dataset is to make it more aligned to other names. So, in order to avoid or, at least, minimize future renaming we should think about **naming conventions** for datasets.

The same applies for dimension which, if renamed might easily break external applications that use the openspending API.