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>