On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:19 PM, joel sachs wrote:
c) For terms that are designed to contain lists (dynamicProperties, recordedBy, preparations, otherCatalogNumbers, previousIdentifications, associatedMedia, associatedReferences, associatedOccurrences, associatedSequences, associatedTaxa, higherGeography, georeferencedBy, georeferenceSources, identifiedBy, identificationReferences, typeStatus, higherClassification, measurementDeterminedBy), recommend in the term definition that the list be delimited with a vertical bar '|' and no white space.
This should not be in the term definition, IMO. Tim laid out the arguments really well. This is a matter for different ways of applying DwC to concrete use-cases. If it's a flattened out spreadsheet, then the recommendation could be the above. But as a part of the normative vocabulary term definitions, this would be bad - it would essentially render DwC at odds with common and best practices in XML, XSD, and RDF.
-hilmar