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 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

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