there is more than one reason why a record might be 'suppressed' - should this be indicated? IF currently supresses three types of record:

1. orthographic variants (one to many) 2. deprecated records (either absolute duplicates or keyboarding/OCR/other 'duplicates') 3. unpublished names (e.g. from 'herbarium' specimens or BRCs (a.k.a. culture collection)

all these have a 'isReplacedBy' pointer ...

Paul

-----Original Message----- From: tdwg-guid-bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:tdwg-guid-bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu]On Behalf Of Sally Hinchcliffe Sent: 15 June 2006 11:43 To: tdwg-guid@mailman.nhm.ku.edu Subject: [Tdwg-guid] Some questions re metadata tags [ Scanned for viruses ]

Hi all

Having gone through my notes from GUIDs 2 I realise we need a couple of tags in the IPNI metadata - any suggestions for what would be a good standard term to use?

We need something to tag version, and something to indicate that a record has been suppressed (rather than just reporting 'not found') We will use Darwin Core's 'isReplacedBy' for records that have been suppressed in favour of another record

Sally *** Sally Hinchcliffe *** Computer section, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew *** tel: +44 (0)20 8332 5708 *** S.Hinchcliffe@rbgkew.org.uk

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