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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dear All,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">A new version of NCD is attached and will be placed on the wiki and in rs.tdwg.org/ncd/dev</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There are no major changes, but some much-needed tidying up. I am grateful to Markus for making the following changes:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- all attribute names start with lower character</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- all xs:anySimpleType data types have been replaced with xs:string, </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">xs:positiveInteger or xs:language where appropriate</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- missing types have been added</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- version="0.51" because all attribute names have changes to lower case</FONT>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In addition, I have amended the header to reflect the new version and date and altered <CollectionExtent> from being a container element (in error) to being a string element.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There may be additional changes required to harmonise the schema with the NCD Toolit requirements.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">For those of you unable to work with .xsd files, I also enclose a cribsheet in Excel that provides a straight listing of the elements and their attrbutes. The names of elements currently deemed to be required are shaded pale blue</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">All best wishes,</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Neil</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-------</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Neil Thomson</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Head of Data & Digital Systems</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5294, </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Fax: +44 (0)20 7942 5559, </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Email: n.thomson@nhm.ac.uk</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.nhm.ac.uk"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.nhm.ac.uk</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=2 COLOR="#000000"> <<NCDv0pt51.xsd>> </FONT><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=2 COLOR="#000000"> <<NCDv0pt51.xls>> </FONT></SPAN>
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