Dear all,
While composing a template and recommendations for the Darwin Core fields to supply for the BioFresh project http://www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/, similar to what Peter Desmet did for herbaria in Apple Core http://code.google.com/p/applecore/, I came across a number of terms which I haven't yet completely understood and hope to get some feedback on from this community.
Two of these terms are:
InstitutionCode - InstitutionID http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/institutionCode - http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/institutionID
The name (or acronym) in use by the institution having custody of the object(s) or information referred to in the record. / An identifier for the institution having custody of the object(s) or information referred to in the record.
I guess that the latter term is supposed to be a DOI/GUID for the institute, but am wondering if there is such a thing or whether this field is rather for internal database purposes?
Any advise would be appreciated!
With best regards, -- Aaike De Wever BioFresh Science Officer Freshwater Laboratory, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels Belgium tel.: +32(0)2 627 43 90 mobile.: +32(0)486 28 05 93 email: aaike.dewever@naturalsciences.be skype: aaikew AIM: aaike@mac.com LinkedIn: http://be.linkedin.com/in/aaikedewever BioFresh: http://www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/ and http://data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/ Belgian Biodiversity Platform: http://www.biodiversity.be