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TagType enumeration question #33

Open nephiharvey opened 10 years ago

nephiharvey commented 10 years ago

Practically in the field, when collecting data, the vet does not want to spend much time determining the tag type. For instance, NUES8, NUES7, EIN (840 vs non840), etc. While the programs collecting data can have some logic to guess at the tag type, can we add a "other" enumeration to the tag type?

Actually, we see the "OTH" type, but can we change it to "OTHER"?

Also, in the case where multiple ID's are recorded, for instance three on a particular animal, should we provide a label as an attribute for each of the ID's recorded?

mmcgrath commented 10 years ago

I agree with changing OTH to OTHER and will implement that change.

I don't understand your last point --- if an animal has three tags then the tag number & type of each tag is recorded separately. What do you mean by "label"?

mmcgrath commented 7 years ago

Unfortunately, the change from OTH to OTHER didn't get done in the v1.0 standard. I think it is now unwise to change this as it would be a "breaking change."