I like Audubon Core, even though it is long, it salutes a very famous and prolific illustrator and publicizer of natural history illustrations. Certainly if Audubon had had other media in which to record his observations, he would have. The name should pop up prominently and give a nice story in tribute for this standard. Bravo. Thanks too to Gregor for getting us to think along these lines!
Gail
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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:21:50 -0500 From: Bob Morris morris.bob@gmail.com Subject: Re: [tdwg-tag] namespaces To: Gregor Hagedorn g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com Cc: José Cuadra (GBIF) jcuadra@gbif.org, Greg Riccardi griccardi@fsu.edu, Annette L Olson
alolson@usgs.gov, gkamp@illinois.edu, "Vishwas Chavan (GBIF)" vchavan@gbif.org, Chris Freeland chris.freeland@mobot.org, tdwg-tag@tdwg.org
Audubon Core? Acronym is tricky though. ADBC is acronym of major new nsf initiative Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections.
Bob
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On Nov 15, 2010 8:52 AM, "Gregor Hagedorn" <g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com> wrote: I dislike the mermaids. Also nobody explained what the d stand for... is it the Data inside metadata? How about calling it HaeckelCore (Ernst Haeckel, famous biological scientist and illustrator, also a German, I admit) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstformen_der_Natur may be the most famous English illustrator instead? Gregor
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