Building bridges between data and scientists: best practices and lessons learned

A manuscript about building bridges between data/data providers and researchers/scientists, with the following ideas so far:

• use cases that necessitate FTP vs. csv dump vs. rest API vs etc.
• within APIS: what are best practices
• discoverability - how do you find out if an API has data (taxonomic, geospatial, etc.) you want?
• data formats: tabular vs. JSON/XML, etc.
• combining data: e.g., using identifiers instead of names
• best practices in relational databases, briefly
• ropensci filling gaps btwn data providers and scientists
  • communicating from data provdiers to sci.
  • communicating from sci. to data provdiers

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