InternalNotes/ReportedNotes [Request for voting]

[Gregor Hagedorn]

In the current version of the SDD schema we have:

InternalNotes: A single element for all languages, intended for
internal documentation, annotations, memos during the development
process of either the terminology or descriptions. This is sort of
like a scrap page for authors or editors.

ReportedNotes: Free form notes/comments/annotations that address the
consumer of descriptive data. Multiple representations for each
audience/language addressed are available.

The pair InternalNotes/ReportedNotes is intended to express the fact
that Internal Notes are not usually published, whereas reported notes
are an essential part of the descriptive data.

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I am currently thinking about whether different element names may be
more acceptable or intuitive.

* Using Annotation instead of InternalNotes
* Using FreeFormText instead of ReportedNotes.

We could use Notes instead of ReportedNotes, but I find the pair
Annotation/Notes easily confusible.

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Gregor
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Gregor Hagedorn (G.Hagedorn at bba.de)
Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology, and Biosafety
Federal Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA)
Koenigin-Luise-Str. 19          Tel: +49-30-8304-2220
14195 Berlin, Germany           Fax: +49-30-8304-2203

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