For what it's worth, I like abnc, and the only competition in a top Google search is abnc.org, for the Armand Bayou Nature Center, which is biodiversity-related at least. As for remembering it, the letter "n" is often used as a contraction for the word "and" in English, so abnc is essentially the first three letters of the alphabet, with an "and" thrown in, so not really hard to remember, if not so much associated with Audubon until you get there. I would not like to lose the "c" for Core because of its heritage from the Dublin and Darwin Cores. My 2 cents, Gail ---- Original message ----
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:46:26 -0500 From: Bob Morris <morris.bob@gmail.com> Subject: [tdwg-tag] Audubon Core namespace To: tdwg-tag@tdwg.org, Annette L Olson <alolson@usgs.gov>, Chris Freeland <chris.freeland@mobot.org>, Greg Riccardi <griccardi@fsu.edu>, Gregor Hagedorn <g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com>, José Cuadra (GBIF) <jcuadra@gbif.org>, "Vishwas Chavan (GBIF)" <vchavan@gbif.org>
Let's settle this. I think http://abnc.tdwg.org works and is easy to associate with Audubon Core. In my opinion: - ac is too short and not evocative - adbc has too much baggage in the U.S. because of the NSF digitization effort http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503559&org=&from_org=NSF - adbnc is too long, though a close second for me - audc is possible but more evocative of audio than audubon
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