[DDI-SRG] Bugs 95 & 97

[Wendy Thomas]

definately should be optional

wendy\
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, arofan.gregory wrote:

> Folks:
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> We are currently requiring the use of CodeListID and CodeList Agency
> wherever there is potentially a controlled vocabulary. Bugs 97 and 95 raise
> the issue of a place where there *might* be a useful controlled vocabulary
> of instrument types, but there might not. Should we make these attributes
> optional, so that it is always possible just to stuff a descriptive string
> into the field?
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> Notice that since we are using Genericode to do our controlled vocabularies,
> this always comes with an after-the-fact validation step, where missing
> values for either of these fields could be required.
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> I think they should be optional.
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> Cheers,
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> Arofan
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