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title: 'squids: Short Quasi-Unique Identifiers (SQUIDs)'
version: 26.4.1
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.squids
abstract: It is often useful to produce short, quasi-unique identifiers (SQUIDs) without
  the benefit of a central authority to prevent duplication. Although Universally
  Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) provide for this, these are also unwieldy; for example,
  the most used UUID, version 4, is 36 characters long. SQUIDs are short (8 characters)
  at the expense of having more collisions, which can be mitigated by combining them
  with human-produced suffixes, yielding relatively brief, half human-readable, almost-unique
  identifiers (see for example the identifiers used for Decentralized Construct Taxonomies;
  Peters & Crutzen, 2024 <https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2022.3638>). SQUIDs are the
  number of centiseconds elapsed since the beginning of 1970 converted to a base 30
  system. This package contains functions to produce SQUIDs as well as convert them
  back into dates and times.
authors:
- family-names: Peters
  given-names: Gjalt-Jorn
  email: squids@opens.science
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0336-9589
repository: https://matherion.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://codeberg.org/R-packages/squids
commit: 1878570a8caf18336543f962523c86bb50986488
url: https://squids.opens.science
date-released: '2026-04-22'
contact:
- family-names: Peters
  given-names: Gjalt-Jorn
  email: squids@opens.science
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0336-9589