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ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 - UPDATE 2013 DRAFT VERSIONconfusion) in Guatemala or Argentina. Likewise, ‘aboriginal’ describesspecific peoples in Australia but it is not a term commonly in use inthe United States.• The seventh information item is optional and indicates if DNA recordsare available for the subject. It is subject DNA records availablecode / DRAC. This need not be specified if a Type-18 record iscontained in the transaction, but it is highly suggested to do so.Allowed values are:0 = Unknown1 = Yes2 = No• The eighth optional information item is the subject collection locationdescription / DCLD. It is an optional string of Unicode characters. Anexample is “Lower jaw recovered 4.3 meters from the tip of the leftwing of the airplane, in grid 7W. Separated from skull. Four teethfound within 20 centimeters of the lower jaw.” This may be a moredescriptive entry than that of Field 12.998: Geographic sampleacquisition location / GEO, which is typically the geographiclocation specified in GPS coordinates or with reference to a fixedlandmark.• The ninth item is optional but shall only appear if the subject isdeceased and the data sample was collected postmortem. (DSC = 2). Itis the subject – estimated death date / DEDD. See Section 7.7.2.4for the format.• The tenth item is optional but shall only appear if DEDD is present inthe field. It is subject – range of death date estimate / DRDE. Thisis the amount of time (plus and minus) of which DEDD is the centerpoint during which the death could have taken place. It is entered inthe format Y yy M mm D dd h hh m mm . The bold letters are entered with Yindicating years, M indicating months, D indicating days, h indicatinghours and m indicating minutes. Not all levels of time need be entered– only the relevant one(s). Thus, with DEDD set at 201203150000DRDE could have a value of D05, meaning that the death could haveoccurred from March 10 through March 20. The letters do not need tobe in bold case in the actual data.• The eleventh item is optional but shall only appear if DRDE is presentin the field. It is subject- death time estimate rationale text /DTER. It is entered in Unicode. A typical entry may be “Using theGlaister equation 139 , the time of death was able to be estimated to be139See Silver W.E., Souviron R.R, Dental Autopsy, CRC Press, 2009 p.9:” Algor mortisMay, 2013 DRAFT VERSION UPDATE 2013 Page 279