[kepler-dev] semantics

[Deana Pennington]

Not wild about FooGlobe :)
Actually, Globe is not very intuitive to me for suggesting connectivity

Could just stick with the old standby "Web"...ScienceWeb?  ScienceNet?  
Except those don't suggest the additional features that we are trying to 
implement on top of the web

I looked up synonyms for web:  trap, snare, maze, muddle, mess, tangle, 
confusion, labyrinth, snarl....maybe pretty descriptive of the current 
state of affairs but doesn't inspire much confidence :-)

Deana



Ferdinando Villa wrote:

>Something like "globe" instead of grid would remind us of our screwed-up
>planet while still suggesting connectivity. I know, FooGlobe still doesn't
>sound good, but probably already better than Kepler Data Grid :)
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>ferdinando 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: kepler-dev-bounces at ecoinformatics.org 
>>[mailto:kepler-dev-bounces at ecoinformatics.org] On Behalf Of 
>>Deana Pennington
>>Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:38 PM
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>>Subject: Re: [kepler-dev] semantics
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>>Would you like to propose an alternative term that adequately 
>>captures the concept of accessing distributed resources?
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>>Mladen Vouk wrote:
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>>>I would steer away from term Grid
>>>Mladen
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>>>Ilkay Altintas wrote:
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>>>>How about "Kepler Data Grid"?
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>>>>Another thing that needs to be decided is the names/definitions of 
>>>>different users and a glossary of terms on functionality.
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>>>>-ilkay
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>>>>On Jan 19, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Deana Pennington wrote:
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>>>>>I'm working on the Getting Started with Kepler document 
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>>that Sam and 
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>>>>>Laura started.  I'm trying to make it more generic, less 
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>>>>>ecology since other sciences are now heavily represented 
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>>>>>think it's time to settle on a generic term for the Grid being 
>>>>>accessed from within Kepler, subsets of which can always use more 
>>>>>specific terms (e.g. EcoGrid).  My suggestion would be to go with 
>>>>>something simple like Science Grid, or SciGrid.  Thoughts? 
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>> Are there 
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>>>>>other terms that we need to resolve before the 
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>>documentation effort 
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>>>>>Deana
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