[tdwg-tag] namespaces

Mon Nov 15 14:39:16 CET 2010

mermaid! ftw! :)

jim

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Bob Morris <morris.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/ ?
>>>>>>>
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>>> Robert A. Morris
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>>> UMASS-Boston
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>>> Boston, MA 02125-3390
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>>
>>
>>
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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/
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>> http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram
>> phone (+1) 857 222 7992 (mobile)
>>
>
>
>
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> Robert A. Morris
> Emeritus Professor  of Computer Science
> UMASS-Boston
> 100 Morrissey Blvd
> Boston, MA 02125-3390
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> email: morris.bob at gmail.com
> web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/
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