Jim (who proposed Wallace Core as a working title for an ontology project, to stick it to that glory seeker Darwin and because the abbreviation WC: was somehow descriptive of where things were going)
OMG! I am peeing in my pants! First a picture of a mermaid (BTW I liked the bra, assuming she was not naked!), then WC as an acronym (a gem). This is getting much better than Taxacom where somebody just suggested to get rid of ITIS and CoL. Life is fun indeed!
Nico
On Tuesday, November 16, 2010, Steve Baskauf steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu wrote:
Not to throw cold water on a cute idea, but would it be good to consider possible confusion/trademark issues with the National Audubon Society, which is generically known as "Audubon"? Steve
Bob Morris wrote:
Much as I would love to be the convenor of mrmd, I must concede that Audubon Core has way more marketability.
Two issues then arise: 1. An acronym for use in name spaces and communication; 2. the need(?) for a word to replace "core" in describing the most important terms in the proposed standard, and which are the ones we suggest are the minimal set that implementers of consuming software should be prepared to handle gracefully. Audubon Core Core sounds silly and confusing to me.
As to 1., I somewhat favor some form of adbn. Or if we must end it in "c" and can't tolerate adbnc, then maybe adnc (resp. AdnC).
As to 2, I have no suggestion
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Gregor Hagedorn g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com?g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com wrote:
Audubon Core.
(and the abbreviation could be AC)
Gregor
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