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Subject: Re: [emergency] Proper abbreviation for the Emergency Management TC: your verdict?
Hi Robin,
We will have a meeting on Tues where I will ask the members their preference. I am in a habit of using the hyphen but do not know of a decision we have made either way. I understand the need for consistency and will get back to you on the will of the group.
Cheers,
Elysa
From: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:emergency@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Robin Cover
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 8:46 AM
To: OASIS Emergency Management TC List
Cc: Robin Cover
Subject: [emergency] Proper abbreviation for the Emergency Management TC: your verdict?
Summary: published resources for the TC activities and Work Products
of the OASIS Emergency Management TC attest both "EM-TC" and "EM TC"
as the TC abbreviation. It would be useful if the TC could agree on a
canonical abbreviation and then try to use it consistently. Please let me
know. Thanks!
======== Details:
The latest recorded minutes for the TC's Charter proposal attest the
spelling "EM-TC", and that spelling (with HYPHEN) seems to be the
most common, based upon a hasty scan I made of the resources [1]
The current TC Public Home Page has five occurrences for "EM-TC"
and one for "EM TC".
The TC Members' postings to the TC Discussion List also attest
"EM-TC", with 12x occurrences of "EM-TC" in "Subject:" lines during
the past four months (no occurrences of "EM TC")
The specifications I scanned (five) attested "EM-TC" but not
"EM TC".
Thanks for your consideration on this point, as I think consistency
will improve the image/branding of the Technical Committee and its
published work.
- Robin Cover
[1] hasty scan of resources
PS In today's climate, we try to insist that TC Charter proposals include
an official abbreviation/acronym so that everyone within OASIS and
external parties have a reference point. Ideally, when the abbreviation
is embedded within the full TC name, that clarifies to all what the
official abbreviation is.
[2003]
Charter original: "EM TC"
Charter proposal as modified: "EM-TC"
[2013]
TC Public Home Page:
- "EM-TC" (5x occurrences)
- "EM TC" (1x occurrence)
[2013]
TC List (Elysa Jones, Greg Trott, etc)
- "EM-TC" (12x occurrences)
in examples from four recent months message Subject lines:
3x + 2x + 4x + 3x
[Specs]
* Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Tracking of Emergency Patients (TEP) Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 01 /
Public Review Draft 01
03 May 2013
says: "EM-TC"
* Emergency Data Exchange Language Situation Reporting (EDXL-SitRep) Version 1.0
Committee Specification 01
11 April 2013
says: "EM-TC"
* Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Distribution Element Version 2.0
Committee Specification Draft 03 /
Public Review Draft 03
04 June 2013
(nil)
* Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) v1.2 Australia (AU) Profile Version 1.0
Committee Specification 01
26 April 2012
says: "EM-TC"
* Common Alerting Protocol Version 1.2
OASIS Standard
01 July 2010
says: "EM-TC"
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