<p>Audubon Core?<br>
Acronym is tricky though. ADBC is acronym of major new nsf initiative Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections.<br><br></p>
<p>Bob</p>
<p>From my droid<br></p>
<p>857-222-7992</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 15, 2010 8:52 AM, "Gregor Hagedorn" <<a href="mailto:g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com">g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>I dislike the mermaids. Also nobody explained what the d stand for...<br>
is it the Data inside metadata?<br>
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How about calling it<br>
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HaeckelCore<br>
(Ernst Haeckel, famous biological scientist and illustrator, also a<br>
German, I admit)<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel</a><br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstformen_der_Natur" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstformen_der_Natur</a><br>
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may be the most famous English illustrator instead?<br>
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Gregor<br>
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