BODDS -Biological Ontological Descriptive Data Standard. It sounds kinda sexy when you say BODDS outloud. Or very juvenile. Or both.

I'd kinda liked the idea of doing something in latin.

-karen medina

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Kevin Thiele wrote:

Jim your skills are wasted. Get a real job!

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Croft" jrc@ANBG.GOV.AU To: TDWG-SDD@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 7:46 AM Subject: Re: Name for the standard

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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...

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but most people would probably refer to it as the 'BD standard' so we

could

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shorten it further to BD...

and if we do the job properly and at the right level there is no reason

why

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it needs to be restricted to biology, so it could be the D standard... or

D

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or Descriptive Ontology Integrating Taxonomy: DO IT

Got it! ... Descriptive Environment for Large Taxonomic Arrays...

now, where did I put those pills...

jim

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