[tdwg-tag] namespaces

[Nico Cellinese]

> 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 at 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 at gmail.com>?<g.m.hagedorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>    Audubon Core.
>> 
>> (and the abbreviation could be AC)
>> 
>> Gregor
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