Indeed, I could tell long stories about EU Recommendations, Directives and Rules and how we have to apply or not apply them in the member states and how much they are misunderstood, until we suddenly get a fine to pay for not following them ;)

Have all a nice WE and looking forward to the DC/IPT discussions

Pat

From: IPT [mailto:ipt-bounces@lists.gbif.org] On Behalf Of Hannu Saarenmaa
Sent: vendredi 26 juin 2015 16:50
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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 ....