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It is up to you how to name your record sets. Any string comprising
only alphanumeric characters or underscores, and that starts with a
letter will be a legal name. However, it is recommended to use the
singular form of a noun in order to describe the “type” of the
records in the records set. Examples are Article
,
Contributor
, Employee
and Movement
.
The used noun should be specific enough in order to characterize the
property of the records which matters. For example, in a
contributor’s database it would be better to have a record set named
Contributor
than Person
.
The reason of using singular nouns instead of their plural forms is
that it works better with the utilities: it is more natural to read
recsel -t Contributor
(-t
is for “type”) than
recsel -t Contributors
.