Re: Naming advice - Our World in Data

On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM Boyd Duffee <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Having no connection to the project but just goaded into it by there only
> being a python client to downloading their data, I've written a Perl API
> for the "Our World in Data" grapher endpoint at https://ourworldindata.org
>
> After looking through the maillist archive and given that the python
> module for their ETL catalog endpoint is "owid-catalog", I'm thinking that
> WebService::Owid or WebService::OWID are the best names for this module (as
> mixed caps OWiD is just going to be visually confusing). It's short and
> descriptive.
>
> Which would you find less annoying: all caps, ucfirst? Carolingian
> majuscules?
> Suggestions for better names welcome.
>
> Their ETL endpoint is still in beta, but I expect to incorporate that into
> the same namespace at a later date.
>

WebService::OWID seems perfectly reasonable to me and is how the
organization abbreviates itself in the footer of its website.

-Dan