[tdwg-content] delimiter characters for concatenated IDs

[Alex Thompson]

If you're going to go this route, you may also want to think about uri 
component encoding (JavaScript: encodeURIComponent) the individual 
identifier components. Then you can use a generic query string parser 
library to get the components from the string, and can also efficiently 
embed the identifier as part of the query string in the url.

- Alex

On 05/06/2014 09:45 AM, "Dröge, Gabriele" wrote:
>
> Thanks Gregor! I must say I really like this idea for our short term 
> solution! Will discuss this with my team.
>
> Best,
>
> Gabi
>
> *Von:*Gregor Hagedorn [mailto:gregor.hagedorn at mfn-berlin.de]
> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 6. Mai 2014 13:57
> *An:* Dröge, Gabriele
> *Cc:* tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org
> *Betreff:* Re: [tdwg-content] delimiter characters for concatenated IDs
>
> On the original question: my preference when creating an identifier 
> for the triplet would be to be transparent, and create the identifer 
> with the dwc terms embedded,
>
> i.e. use
>
> institutionCode=BGBM&collectionCode=xxx&catalogNumber=289742874239872
>
> as the "self-coined" identifier string. While "&" may not be unique, 
> the delimiter
>
> &collectionCode=
>
> is very likely so. And it is transparent, self-documenting what is 
> going on (and I do not mean that people need to parse it - which they 
> could in either case)
>
> Gregor
>
> On 5 May 2014 15:24, "Dröge, Gabriele" <g.droege at bgbm.org 
> <mailto:g.droege at bgbm.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I guess there might have been some discussions about proper delimiter 
> characters in the past that I have missed.
>
> In several projects, first of all in GGBN (Global Genome Biodiversity 
> Network, http://www.ggbn.org), there is a need for making a decision 
> now. We need to reference between different records and databases and 
> within Darwin Core we want to use the relatedResourceID to do so.
>
> During our GGBN workshop at TDWG last year we agreed on concatenating 
> the traditional triple ID (Catalogue Number, Collection Code, 
> Institution Code) and add further parameters if required too (e.g. 
> GUID, access point). We have checked those parameters and can 
> definitely not use a single character as delimiter.
>
> So my question to you is, if there are already some suggestions on 
> using two characters together as delimiters. It would be great if we 
> could find a solution more than one community could agree on.
>
> Otherwise I would like to open the discussion and suggest "\\", "||", 
> "\|", "§|", "§§", or "\§".
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Gabi
>
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