On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 12:28:44 +0200 John Wieczorek tuco@berkeley.edu wrote:
On the list of pending Darwin Core issues is a topic of general concern about terms that could or do recommend the concatenation and delimiting of a list of values. The specific issue was submitted on the Darwin Core Project site at https://code.google.com/p/darwincore/issues/detail?id=168. Right now there is variation in the recommendations of distinct terms.
I concur that standardization of possible delimiters in the documentation would be a good thing.
Point of information: The AppleCore guidance specifies, in a number of places, the following guidance for a delimiter when a field contains a list of values: 'Separate with "|" or ";"', and in one place (preparations) 'separated by ";" or "|"'.
-Paul