[tdwg-content] Delimiters for Darwin Core list-type terms

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:19 PM, joel sachs wrote:

>> c) For terms that are designed to contain lists (dynamicProperties,
>> recordedBy, preparations, otherCatalogNumbers,
>> previousIdentifications, associatedMedia, associatedReferences,
>> associatedOccurrences, associatedSequences, associatedTaxa,
>> higherGeography, georeferencedBy, georeferenceSources, identifiedBy,
>> identificationReferences, typeStatus, higherClassification,
>> measurementDeterminedBy), recommend in the term definition that the
>> list be delimited with a vertical bar '|' and no white space.
> 

This should not be in the term definition, IMO. Tim laid out the arguments really well. This is a matter for different ways of applying DwC to concrete use-cases. If it's a flattened out spreadsheet, then the recommendation could be the above. But as a part of the normative vocabulary term definitions, this would be bad - it would essentially render DwC at odds with common and best practices in XML, XSD, and RDF.

	-hilmar
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