Global ID

[johnb30]

Need to add in a global, unique ID for each event record.

[ahalterman]

Do you want them to be sequential/meaningful or can we just do an MD5 hash?

[johnb30]

I thought about doing MD5 hashes for something like URL + date, but it might be more useful to have something sequential and meaningful. Easy answer is why not both?

[ahalterman]

Or just hash the text. It's fast.
I'm fine with both (meaningful ID vs. definitely unique ID).

On a semi-related note, can we switch the date to YYYYMMDD rather than YYMMDD? It's closer to ISO and I think it's easier to read and it's much easier to convert into ISO later. I'm afraid that would break some things but it's something to think about.

[johnb30]

I'm fine with hashing the text and putting in both sequential and fully unique ID. I'm also fine with the 8-digit date rather than the 6. I wonder if @philip-schrodt has any input on this? It should be just a matter of changing the format at https://github.com/openeventdata/phoenix_pipeline/blob/master/phox_pipeline.py#L27.