Re: Name

From: Geoffrey Rockwell (grockwel@mcmaster.ca)
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 20:38:58 EDT

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    John,

    I would suggest one of these two:

    Organization of Humanities Computing Organizations (ohco.org)

    [OHCO could stand for OHCO is not another Humanities Computing
    Organization :-)]

    or

    Consortium of Humanities Computing Organizations (cohco.org)

    Both echo something from our history. COCOA was the first concordance
    program on the Atlas at Oxford, if my memory serves, from which we got
    the COCOA markup language used in TACT and other programs.

    I like them both. What do others think?

    Yours,

    Geoffrey Rockwell

    On Tue, 11 May 2004 18:04:37 -0500
     John Unsworth <unsworth@uiuc.edu> wrote:
    > Geoff,
    >
    > Thanks for bringing this up. I've though about
    >
    > Humanities Computing Consortium (hcc.org is taken, as are hcc.net and
    > hcc.info)
    >
    > or
    >
    > Computational Humanities Consortium (but chc.org is taken, as are
    > chc.net and chc.info)
    >
    > or maybe
    >
    > Computational Humanities Organizations (cho.org is taken, ditto .net
    > and .info)
    >
    > or
    >
    > Humanities Computing Organizations (hco.net, .org and .info
    > unavailable)
    >
    > but clearly, three-letter domain names are impossible to get at this
    > point. So, how about four?
    >
    > Organization of Humanities Computing Organizations (ohco.org and
    > ohco.info are both available--and there's a nice inside joke about
    > the OHCO thesis, as well as the recursion/redundancy, which is either
    > funny or not).
    >
    > >
    > > Consortium for [or of] Humanities Computing Organizations (CoHCO)
    >
    > If we said CHCO, then chco.info is available
    >
    > >
    > > International Consortium for Literary and Linguistic Computing
    > > Organizations (ICLLCO)
    >
    > Too long, I think but if we did international consortium of
    > humanities computing organizations, ichco, we can get ichco.net and
    > ichco.org.
    >
    > adho.net adho.org and adho.info are also all available...
    >
    > ohco and adho have the virtue of being pronounceable as words, which
    > cannot be said of the others--but then ACH and ALLC aren't
    > pronounceable either (unless you want to sound like you're choking on
    > something).
    >
    > I guess I'd vote for consortium of humanities computing organizations
    > as the most straightforward: chco.info is available (and so are
    > cohco.net, cohco.org, and cohco.info).
    >
    > We should choose soon, and register one of these.
    >
    > John
    >

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