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Hannu Saarenmaa
hannu.saarenmaa at helsinki.fi
Fri Jun 26 16:44:01 CEST 2015
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 at inbo.be <mailto:dimitri.brosens at 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 ....
>
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