BODDS Re: Name for the standard

Karen E. Medina kmedina at ALEXIA.LIS.UIUC.EDU
Wed Sep 10 17:47:12 CEST 2003


BODDS -Biological Ontological Descriptive Data Standard. It sounds kinda
sexy when you say BODDS outloud. Or very juvenile. Or both.

I'd kinda liked the idea of doing something in latin.

-karen medina

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Kevin Thiele wrote:

> Jim your skills are wasted. Get a real job!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Croft" <jrc at ANBG.GOV.AU>
> To: <TDWG-SDD at LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 7:46 AM
> Subject: Re: Name for the standard
>
>
> > >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...
> >
> > ....
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > ~ Jim Croft ~ jrc at anbg.gov.au ~ 02-62465500 ~ www.anbg.gov.au/jrc/ ~
>

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