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Are there any terms that accept HTML? #111

Open mjy opened 6 years ago

mjy commented 6 years ago

I had a question from someone putting together a data-set as to whether there is any provision for accepting HTML markup in a particular field?

I guessed that there is not, but it's an interesting question that might come up again. Certainly we wouldn't want to mix HTML and data, but there might be descriptive elements where it could be useful.

tucotuco commented 6 years ago

There is no proscription of HTML as content, except where one is supposed to follow controlled vocabularies, which do not contain HTML. Indeed, Arctos uses HTML in various fields where they deem it to be useful, such as typeStatus and previousIdentifications, which you can see in action at

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/uam/mammal-specimens?id=http-arctos-database-museum-guid-uam-mamm-10-seid-203909

and

https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/897005739