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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I guess there might have been some discussions about proper delimiter characters in the past that I have missed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In several projects, first of all in GGBN (Global Genome Biodiversity Network, <a href="http://www.ggbn.org">http://www.ggbn.org</a>), 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Otherwise I would like to open the discussion and suggest "\\", "||", "\|", "§|", "§§", or "\§".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Gabi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-----------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Gabriele Droege<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Coordinator - DNA Bank Network<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Berlin-Dahlem DNA Bank<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Women's Officer ZE BGBM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Freie Universität Berlin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Koenigin-Luise-Str. 6-8<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>14195 Berlin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>+49 30 838 50 139<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.dnabank-network.org">www.dnabank-network.org</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ggbn.org">www.ggbn.org</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://www.bgbm.org">www.bgbm.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>