[UPS] UPS rename

[Stevan Harnad]

Herb, for some reason you left out my two candidates, sent you on Oct.
26:

(1) Author Auto-Archiving initiative
(2) Public Archiving initiative.
(I would now amend two to Interoperable Public Eprint Archiving Initiative)

Below, I prefer the candidates that are clear, unambiguous, and
self-explanatory, over the cutesy, non-explanatory acronyms. Why do we
need an acronym at all? "ArXive" or "Eprint" tells it all best as a
handle, and the long-hand name of the project need not be the expansion
of acronym ititials.

Chrs, S

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, herbert van de sompel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Here is a list of suggestions for UPS replacement names, shown in no
> particular order.  
> 
> - Joint Eprint Initiative (JEI or JEPI) (jepi.org not taken)
> - Scholary Archives Initiative (SAI or SAxI) (could prepend Networked or
> Electronic)(sai.org , saxi.org not taken)
> - InterConnected Eprint Archives (Initiative) (ICEA)(I)
> - Interoperable Eprint Archives (Initiative) (IEA)(I)
> - Interoperable Self Archive (Initiative) (ISA)(I)
> - Interoperable Scholarship (Initiative) (ISA)(I)
> - InterConnected Auto Archive (Initiative) (IAA)(I)
> - Institutional Eprint Archives (Initiative) (IEA)(I)
> - Eprint Archive Initiative (EAI)
> - Research Archives Initiative (RAI) (rai.org not taken)
> - Research Communications Infrastructure (RCI) (rci.org not taken)
> - Institutional Research Archives (IRA)
> - Interoperable Research Archives (IRA)
> - Archives for Institutional Research (AIR)
> - Free Archives for Institutional Research (FAIR)
> - Academic Archiving Interoperablity Initiative (AAII) (my comment:
> could pronounce a two i two, a2i2.org not taken)
> - Kepler
> - Opcit
> - International Consortia of Electronic Scholarly Archives (ICESA)
> - UPS
> 
> My personal opinion (if I may express one on this delicate matter):
> although many names explain very well what this all is about, most sound
> rather boring.  Do we want that?  Judging purely on "sound", I intend to
> prefer JEPI, AIR, FAIR, RAI, Opcit and a2i2.  Mind that RAI is delicate
> in Europe: Italian TV station running shows scoring high on lack of good
> taste. 
> 
> Can the list reach a decision on this before Friday November 5th, by
> self-organization?
> 
> I am off to South Africa.
> 
> greetings
> 
> herbert
> 
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