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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">I don't know what might be used commonly. However, among the choices you list, I would argue that anything involving "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">§",
a character not readily visible on the (English-language) keyboard (and thus more likely to be misinterpreted by person or machine) would not be my choice.</span>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">I regularly use "\\" and "||" as parsers for search and replace. "\\" has the advantage of not needing to be accompanied by a shift to acquire
the symbol, but the back slash "\" is/was used in local file paths in the PC world. I have seen a single "|" used as a common delimiter on web page title text, but I don't think "||" is used that way (??). "||" also has the distinction (disadvantage? or
less likely to be hit accidentally) of needing a shift to accomplish it on the traditional keyboard available in English. </span></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">I would be happy with either "\\" or "||" until more information is provided.</span></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Cheers!</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Gail<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 05, 2014 08:24<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [tdwg-content] delimiter characters for concatenated IDs<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,</p>
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<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.</span></p>
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<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" target="_blank">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.</span></p>
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<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.</span></p>
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<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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Otherwise I would like to open the discussion and suggest "\\", "||", "\|", "§|", "§§", or "\§".</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best wishes,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Gabi</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Gabriele Droege</span></p>
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