Dear All,
A new version of NCD is attached and will be placed on the wiki and in rs.tdwg.org/ncd/dev
There are no major changes, but some much-needed tidying up. I am grateful to Markus for making the following changes:
- all attribute names start with lower character - all xs:anySimpleType data types have been replaced with xs:string, xs:positiveInteger or xs:language where appropriate - missing types have been added - version="0.51" because all attribute names have changes to lower case
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.
There may be additional changes required to harmonise the schema with the NCD Toolit requirements.
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
All best wishes, Neil ------- Neil Thomson Head of Data & Digital Systems The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5294, Fax: +44 (0)20 7942 5559, Email: n.thomson@nhm.ac.uk http://www.nhm.ac.uk
<<NCDv0pt51.xsd>> <<NCDv0pt51.xls>>