[sc34wg3] a new name for the Reference Model

[Sam Hunting]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Mason, James David (MXM) wrote:

> 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.

Interesting! Thanks.

> 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.

The more I hear of this, the more I like the modesty (Tony Coates:
"underselling") of "principles." 

To an untutored ear, "Info... Agg... Meta..." might sound a litle, well,
"all hat and no cattle."

Not to mention the YHWH-esque connotations of the acronym (Exodus 3:14),
which are to say the least the reverse of modest.


> 
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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.
> 
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Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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