[tdwg-tag] namespaces

[Bob Morris]

If the powers that be oppose http://rs.tdwg.org/mrtg, I prpse
http://rs.tdwg.org/mrmd


Its only disadvantage is typographic: in poorly designed sans-serif
faces  mrmd and mmd are difficult to distinguish. Its glorious
advantage is that its mnemonic and pronunciation are "mermaid".  mrmd
is far more evocative than dwc ("dwick" too close to "dweeb", or
worse), ncd (sounds like somebody stole something), or  sdd (which we
continually have to explain is not meant to be a homonym for the
acronym of Sexually Transmitted Disease).

MRTG team: any objection to http://rs.tdwg.org/mrmd ? The more I think
of it, the more I really like being the mermaid convener.

We should not lose track of the "resource" part of the name, since the
standard describes other things than just media, namely collections of
media and access to media.
As usual, if I hear no objection by Thursday, I'll ask that
http://rs.tdwg.org/mrmd  be TAGged.


Bob
p.s. Can somebody tell me what the "rs" denotes in all(?) the
BIS(TDWG) namespaces?


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Bob Morris <morris.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, it is not a standard for multimedia, it is a standard for
> multimedia metadata. Standards for multimedia have acronyms like JPEG,
> MPEG-7, MIME, PAL, SECAM, and NTSC
>
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Bob Morris <morris.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Actually, the proposed standard name is Multimedia Resources Metadata.
>> See  http://www.keytonature.eu/wiki/MRTG_v1.0
>> We are only talking about the namespace.
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Bob Morris <morris.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It's no worse than "tdwg".  Hah, hah, just serious.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> That's a good point Gail.
>>>>
>>>> Would 'multimedia' too long?
>>>>
>>>> or perhaps too explicit? ;)
>>>>
>>>> jim
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Gail E. Kampmeier <gkamp at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>>>> If this is a namespace for the Multimedia Resources Task Group, then yes, but I do not think that MRTG is
>>>>> an appropriate name for a Standard.  A Task Group is not a Standard.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gail
>>>>>
>>>>> ---- Original message ----
>>>>>>Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:16:06 -0500
>>>>>>From: Bob Morris <morris.bob at gmail.com>
>>>>>>Subject: [tdwg-tag] namespaces
>>>>>>To: tdwg-tag at tdwg.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>>As part of the MRTG submission, I need to stabilize a namespace for
>>>>>>MRTG resources.  Should  I use as base  http://rs.tdwg.org/mrtg/ ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>--
>>>>>>Robert A. Morris
>>>>>>Emeritus Professor  of Computer Science
>>>>>>UMASS-Boston
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>> --
>> Robert A. Morris
>> Emeritus Professor  of Computer Science
>> UMASS-Boston
>> 100 Morrissey Blvd
>> Boston, MA 02125-3390
>> Associate, Harvard University Herbaria
>> email: morris.bob at gmail.com
>> web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/
>> web: http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush
>> http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram
>> phone (+1) 857 222 7992 (mobile)
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Robert A. Morris
> Emeritus Professor  of Computer Science
> UMASS-Boston
> 100 Morrissey Blvd
> Boston, MA 02125-3390
> Associate, Harvard University Herbaria
> email: morris.bob at gmail.com
> web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/
> web: http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush
> http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram
> phone (+1) 857 222 7992 (mobile)
>



-- 
Robert A. Morris
Emeritus Professor  of Computer Science
UMASS-Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd
Boston, MA 02125-3390
Associate, Harvard University Herbaria
email: morris.bob at gmail.com
web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/
web: http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram
phone (+1) 857 222 7992 (mobile)