I guess that I have to reply now since I said I would.
I even read your treatment description proposal.
The material covered in it is all useful even if we can not agree on the format and extent of the list yet.
I do not see how we can avoid mixing data in a treatment. I'll need to go back and reread Bob's comments on that. Generally I don't see how we can have a standard that requires all fields to be reduced to finite states. Some things will just need to be unprocessed (by the computer) text.
Perhaps people should propose which like items should be deleted, added or modified (and how to modify them).
-- Bryan At 01:12 PM 7/18/00 +1000, you wrote:
To: other contributors on the SDD list
Yes, I'm still out here, I'm a taxonomist and I'm still interested in contributing to the requirements analysis.
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