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wow, these are all terrific suggestions! hadn't heard HIPPO or PICNIC before, but I'm totally adding them to my lexicon. And "backronym" is awesome in so many ways -- including the way Morgan used it as a verb. Swt! Head of Knowledge Management The Morton Arboretum | 4100 Illinois Route

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These are great, you've brightened by day, sometimes MCN-L is TLDR. My favourite recursive TLA is PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor), but then again, I'm a big nerd. -k Keir Winesmith Head of Web and Digital Platforms SFMOMA On the Go 415.357.2871 kwinesm...@sfmoma.org www.sfmoma.org This mes

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For tech kludges there are: IIWII. (it is what it is) and TBDIIIWII Scott ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscr

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Ooh I love picnic and hippo! In the spirit of Simon's squirrel nutkin, we give things the "INATOR" treatment. So when we fixed our locations section, we called it the Locinator. And the research upgrade was the Researchinator. We backronymed this to mean "It's Now A Totally Operational Resourc

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Two of my faves: PICNIC = problem in chair, not in computer HiPPO = highest paid person's opinion Andrew Ruginis Director of Information Technology Chicago Architecture Foundation 224 South Michigan Avenue Chicago IL 60604 312.561.2129 architecture.org facebook/ch

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There are the MPEG's JPEG's DPI RGB sRGB CMYK CIE and PANTONE color spaces and as most exhibiton planners probably know BMFD (Benjamin Moore Fan Deck) On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Bryan Kennedy wrote: > Don't forget the media/show-control/computer interface side of things: > > MIDI - http:/

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Don't forget the media/show-control/computer interface side of things: MIDI - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI OCS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control UDP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol TCP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol DMX - htt

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Currently working on the UI and UX for a project coded using MVC (a bit like MVVM) and, thrillingly, using AES-57, AES-60 and AES-X098C schemas. We’re having to validate MD5 and SHA checksums and generate SMPTE time codes. Which is nice. Michael = Michael Stocking Managi

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Hello, Perhaps you could include: UXP ("User Experience" and/or "User Experience Platform") ...and bouncing off that: VXP ("Visitor Experience") Please also see: "Digital Curator Survival Guide: A Glossary of Tech Terms Museums Should Know" http://bit.ly/16RWI98 Best wishes, Paul Henningsso

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And then there are the "justa" acronyms (apocryphal retronyms or real): JAVA (once upon a time, wrongly rumored by some to stand for "Just Another Vague Acronym," but it's not an acronym at all*) JBOD (real: Just a Bunch Of Disks: multiple drives not configured as a RAID** array) Rob * ht

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Okay, I couldn't resist this call-out. Back in the day I had a brief foray at Eastman Kodak Company before their ill-fated attempt to move to digital. As the TWAIN API is probably still used in Museums for digital imaging, and while arguable there is general consensus that intended or not,

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On 10/02/2015 20:15, Rob Lancefield on lists wrote: And so very many more that it might be worth thinking about turning this effort into a community-sourced wiki or some such resource, which could have certain advantages: ease of updating, wide accessibility A GLAM version of the Urban Dict

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disclaimer here] - -Original Message- From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Tanner, Simon Sent: 10 February, 2015 10:23 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] hit me with your tech-related acronyms! Hi Carissa, In the spir

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For anyone interested in more ancient rodentiary-comic book entries In 1992 (pre-bowser) *Veronica* was a search engine for menu entries across servers using the Gopher protocol , a backronym

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HTML, CSS, JS, JSON, XML, RSS APC , AJAX, API, JDBC LAMP, WAMP, MAMP, SSH , SQL, SPARQL, XACML IG , FB, RT , MT, ICYMI, QWERTY OAI

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! -Original Message- From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Tanner, Simon Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 2:23 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] hit me with your tech-related acronyms! Hi Carissa, In the spirit of not being at all helpful but

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REST, cURL, LDAP, URI, LAMP, AWS . . . On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Douglas Hegley wrote: > Check this link: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computing_and_IT_abbreviations > I think your goal is to boil this down a little for a museum audience, > laudable but a large task. I agree wit

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Check this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computing_and_IT_abbreviations I think your goal is to boil this down a little for a museum audience, laudable but a large task. I agree with Rob that it would be good to be some kind of shared work space available online. Anecdotally, one of my

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Hi Carissa, In the spirit of not being at all helpful but enjoying the opportunity to roll out a true favourite... Back in the 90's we had a digital project which we gave the acronym: SQUIRREL NUTKIN It stood for: Sequential Query User Interface Resourcing a Research Electronic Library Nota

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Thanks, Rob! Yes, a wiki is a good idea... (and, in fact, although it's not an acronym, "wiki" is on my list, too!) Head of Knowledge Management The Morton Arboretum | 4100 Illinois Route 53 | Lisle, Illinois 60532 T *630-725-2136* |*cdoughe...@mortonarb.org * | mortonarb.org On Tu

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Hi Carissa and all, Okay, I'll bite, starting with a key one that's not tech-specific: ROI, BI, CRM (CRM in the Constituent Relationship Management sense), LIDO, CIDOC-CRM (this CRM in the different, Conceptual Reference Model sense), FADGI, AAT, ULAN, TGN, DAM, and CMS--with both meanings of