The word "recommendation" itself is culturally loaded. Here in the north everyone just ignores any recommendation as just another opinion. But in the Latin culture a recommendation is something that must be followed. Learning this was part of my training when working in an unnamed international agency, where they wanted to be sensitive about cultural differences. I never thought it would be relevant for TDWG as well. ;-)

Hannu

On 2015-06-26 12:27, John Wieczorek wrote:

I understand. Better documentation would go a long way toward avoiding such problems in the future.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Dimitri Brosens <dimitri.brosens@inbo.be> wrote:

Hi,

Well, I do understand your concern. what we choose has much to do with how we read (interpreted) the recommendations.

"Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as ....