Ian Engelbrecht

Suggested to update the docs to say that string 1 and string 2 passed to compareTwoStrings() must not be null, or check the vals passed in and throw an error...

Please note spelling correction of Indigophera to Indigofera in the usage comments also

Thank you for the responses John and Quentin. Blank it will be. Just another example, which may be useful for documentation, would be a verbatimLocality of '5km from Rust de...

I see that the definition for dwc:nameAccordingTo says 'For taxa that result from identifications, a reference to the keys, monographs, experts and other sources should be given'. This gives dual...

My feeling is that we should aim to model current practice with identifications while at the same time promoting good practice. The article mentioned in the original post describes nicely...

Apologies for the delay in responding. My feeling is not. Verification should be a separate process to making an identification. The workflow should be that one person identifies a specimen,...

An alternative term for `identificationConfidence` may be `identificationCertainty`

Regarding additional fields for ...verifiedBy and ...verifiedDate, an alternative might be simply record all of that information in ...verificationStatus.

For `basisOfIdentification`: Definition: The method, tool, or rationale used in identifying the specimen. Comments: Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary. Examples: 'tacit expertise', 'field guide', 'key', 'DNA'...

Can I suggest "Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names **and** to leave this field blank if the Location spans...