[sc34wg3] a new name for the Reference Model

[Mason, James David (MXM)]

I think there's something to be said for Steve's suggestion below of "Topic
Maps Information Aggregation Metamodel". There's more than one way to get to
that: we should remember that the full title of a standard actually has
three parts, which are normally the name of JTC1, the same of the SC, then
the name of the standard. So ISO/IEC 13250 is actually "Information
Technology - Document Description and Processing Languages - Topic Maps"
(and SGML is "Information Processing - Text and Office Systems - Standard
Generalized Markup Language"). But we can play games with that pattern: TR
9573 was "Information Technology - SGML Support Facilities - Techniques for
Using SGML", skipping the name of SC18.

So likewise, we could name the model "Information Technology - Topic Maps -
Information Aggregation Metamodel". That would get both the long name and
the short name.

Jim

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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Pepper [mailto:pepper@ontopia.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 10:55 AM
To: sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org; sc34wg3@isotopicmaps.org
Subject: Re: [sc34wg3] a new name for the Reference Model



In line with SRN's desire to have the trademark (TM) in
the name, we could go for the

   Topic Maps Information Aggregation Metamodel

normally abbreviated to the "Information Aggregation Model",
acronamed "IAM".[*]

Why is this a good marketing name? Because it is precise
in three ways. It says what it is (a metamodel), where it
belongs (topic maps), and what it's for (information
aggregation).

What's more, the "what it's for" part - quite amazingly,
and uniquely in the history of SC34, I think - connects
very intuitively with a real perceived business problem:
the need to be able to aggregate information.