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Re: Fwd: Rejected posting to TDWG-SDD@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU (fwd)
by Guillaume Rousse 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Ainsi parlait Jim Croft : > >Similarly, we could honour Richard Pankhurst with PanXML, which should > >cover most things we might use it for. > > or Comprehensive Abstraction Markup Language - CAML > or Comprehensive Annotation Markup Language - CAML > > both pronounced 'camel' ... in honour of its design process... CAML is already a (excellent) programming language, see http://caml.inria.fr/index-eng.html And annotation or abstraction isn't specific to systematics moreover. -- The more work you have to get done, the more likely it is to rain. -- Precipitation Precepts n°1

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Re: Name for the standard
by Jim Croft 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

is DescML taken? jim >jrc> So what is it to be? BioML? > >preoccupied, although there in no strict registration mechanism >except its flavour in namespace. >http://xml.coverpages.org/bioml.html ~ Jim Croft ~ jrc(a)anbg.gov.au ~ 02-62465500 ~ www.anbg.gov.au/jrc/ ~

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Re: Name for the standard
by Nozomi Ytow 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

jrc> is DescML taken? Not yet, according to an oracle of google. CAML is preoccupied: http://www.vision.fhg.de/~veenhuis/CAML/ http://caml.inria.fr/ Cheers, JMS -- Dr. Nozomi "James" Ytow www.nomencurator.org

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XDELTA
by Nozomi Ytow 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

sblum> This one could be xDELTA (!). See http://www.ldodds.com/delta/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/xdelta/?topic_id=52 Cheers, JMS -- Dr. Nozomi "James" Ytow Institute of Biological Sciences / Gene research center University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572 Japan

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Fwd: Rejected posting to TDWG-SDD@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU (fwd)
by Jim Croft 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

messaged from Liz Kolster who is having a few techincal difficulties with her subscription... is the listmaster listening? jim >I give a second on Stan's suggestion, ExSDD! Well Done Stan, >Liz. ~ Jim Croft ~ jrc(a)anbg.gov.au ~ 02-62465500 ~ www.anbg.gov.au/jrc/ ~

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Re: XDELTA
by Leigh Dodds 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

> sblum> This one could be xDELTA (!). > > See > > http://www.ldodds.com/delta/ <delurks/> I don't make any particular claims to the name though, so (re-)use it as you see fit. btw, where would look for an update/docs on the new standard? I'm curious whether any consideration was given to using RDF, which provides a good framework for collating data about resources from multiple sources and using multiple vocabularies. Cheers, L.

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Re: Fwd: Rejected posting to TDWG-SDD@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU (fwd)
by Lander, Nicholas 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

> This one could be xDELTA (!). I do like the fact that it would honor one of the pioneers in this field. Don't Dalwitz's papers go back to 1980? In chip-years that's a long time! < Similarly, we could honour Richard Pankhurst with PanXML, which should cover most things we might use it for. Nicholas Lander Western Australian Herbarium (PERTH)

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Re: Name for the standard
by Jim Croft 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

>All domain-specific XML standard are kind of fooML: >MathML >GeoML >So i'd suggest to keep it that way. If the product that we are creating is serious and encompasses all of its domain and I hope it is, I would agree with this fully... So what is it to be? BioML? jim ~ Jim Croft ~ jrc(a)anbg.gov.au ~ 02-62465500 ~ www.anbg.gov.au/jrc/ ~

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Re: Name for the standard
by Jim Croft 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

>How about BIODDS - BIOlogical Descriptive Data Standard? or BDDS... but the data is probably a given in this day and age so we could get away with BDS... .... but most people would probably refer to it as the 'BD standard' so we could shorten it further to BD... and if we do the job properly and at the right level there is no reason why it needs to be restricted to biology, so it could be the D standard... or D or Descriptive Ontology Integrating Taxonomy: DO IT Got it! ... Descriptive Environment for Large Taxonomic Arrays... now, where did I put those pills... jim ~ Jim Croft ~ jrc(a)anbg.gov.au ~ 02-62465500 ~ www.anbg.gov.au/jrc/ ~

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Re: Name for the standard
by Nozomi Ytow 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

jrc> So what is it to be? BioML? preoccupied, although there in no strict registration mechanism except its flavour in namespace. http://xml.coverpages.org/bioml.html Cheers, JMS -- Dr. Nozomi "James" Ytow Institute of Biological Sciences / Gene research center University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572 Japan

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