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@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@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@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@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@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
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:16:06 -0500 From: Bob Morris morris.bob@gmail.com Subject: [tdwg-tag] namespaces To: tdwg-tag@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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