Hello All

at the risk of prolonging the debate I had a thought this morning, what about:

`MIDAS: The UK Standard for Historic Environment Data Recording'

I should probably get out more...;-)

Isabel

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Subject: Re: [FISH] MIDAS Heritage logo


Hi Chris & others

absolutely no idea if this idea (from Acronym to noun) already exists

But if it doesn't exist, we could invent it and call it a "MIDAS" -
free publicity after all!

Getting back to the discussion, whilst I noticed Phil's point too, I
think the branding issue of keeping MIDAS makes sense.

I also think Information is better because documentation, to me, sounds
too much like it relates to archives (in the record Office sense), and
would, I think, need more explanation of how we document Heritage data.


Information is, to me anyway, more intuitively understandable as being
about data in its broadest sense.

hope that helps

best wishes

Nick Boldrini
Historic Environment Record Officer
Heritage Section
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North Yorkshire County Council
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>>> [log in to unmask] 31/05/2006 10:37:31 >>>
    Is there a word or grammatical term which describes an acronym
which has 
become redundant but is retained in use, effectively as a noun?  These
seem 
to be becoming more common (MIDAS being one example) and have
distinctive 
typographical characteristics (always in upper case) and presumably are
also 
grammatically distinctive.  I ask merely out of curiosity, it has
nothing to 
do with the present discussion.

Chris Cumberpatch

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