[tei-council] [Fwd: Re: another ODD]

[Lou Burnard]

Hmmm. So that's all right then.


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Subject: 	Re: another ODD
Date: 	Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:39:24 +0100
From: 	Marcus Povey <marcus at elgg.com>
Organisation: 	Curverider Ltd
To: 	Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk>
References: 	<48EFAEDD.5030302 at oucs.ox.ac.uk>



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Hi Lou,

Thanks for getting in touch.

Although we have used ODD in a number of early articles the official
term we are using now is OpenDD. This is to avoid the problems with
three letter acronyms you've mentioned.

While some people are using the term "ODD" - generally for comic effect
- - this is not the official term we sanction.

Marcus

Lou Burnard wrote:
> Since about 1991, we've been using the acronym ODD to refer to  a
> document format, originally expressed in SGML  and more recently
> expressed in XML, which combines the specification of user-documentation
> and schema generation in a single document -- One Document Does it all.
> We even have an entry in Wikipedia
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODD_(One_Document_Does_it_all) which gives
> quite a few references if you want to follow them up (I recommend the
> one called "RelaxNG with Son of ODD" because it's such a nice title) and
> the term is pretty well established in the XML markup community. Today I
> came across your use of the same acronym to describe your proposed "Open
> Data Definition" for exchange of personal data and thought I'd just
> register my concern about the likely confusion this might cause. Fair
> enough, the same acronym is also commonly used (Mr Google tells me) for
> something called Oppositional Defiant Disorder, but that's not (yet) a
> commonly used XML vocabulary.  And, as we all know, the biggest
> challenge facing technology today is that there are only 17576 possible
> three letter acronyms, so collisions like this are bound to happen!
> Nevertheless, I hope you won't mind my asking if it's too late for you
> to reconsider this usage, in the interest of avoiding needless confusion?
> 
> best wishes
> 
> Lou Burnard
> Text Encoding Initiative
> 
> 


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