need a name…
Jun 24th, 2005 by Phil Dawes
Work on the re-focused universal-structured-data-aggregator-thingy is coming along. Have written some importers to get non-tagtriple data in - e.g. an RDF/XML importer, a vanilla XML importer (which uses some heuristics to guess the stmts - can import e.g. rss2.0) and a partly-finished CSV importer (which should make DB imports easy over the web).
The problem is I’m stuck thinking of a name for this aggregator product.
The things I want to convey (or at least hint at):
- It’s an aggregator
- It’s for structured data (regardless of format)
- The tool is imprecise. Quick, cheap and a bit dirty.
(chuck your data in it, integrate it, browse, query, pull it out again)
- It can hold a lot of data - it scales. (Empty a few databases into it)
Ideas:
FatBoy, DataBucket, DataMixer, Blender
Ideally need a cool word for structured data. Information. Knowledge. Crufty-knowledge.
FactBucket
Am pretty low on ideas - can anybody help?
I am working on perl/java project to be hosted on a domain name having some take on “dat”, and so I reserved “tagdat.com”. This naming convention is part of an idea I had of making data munging more appealing to wider web audiences.
Putting “dat” at the end of a verb adds a bit of MTV / hip-hop culture to the semantic web. So “dat” just might be the next “tag”
I can transfer “tagdat.com” to you if you want it. Also, you might consider these other “dats” for what you’re working on:
aggdat
knowdat
brewdat
blendat
feedat
savedat
- Jamie
How about “BrainBucket”?
Paperboy? Datalore? Tumbleweed? Paradata? Paradigm? Deep Thought? 6 by 9?
Hi Phil,
How about a bit of street … PhatMix. (As long as you code it in Grooovy :-).
Omnivat … OneUniverse … FatFusion
Jamie, how about “allofdat”, “donttouchdat” >:-D
Omnivat … OneUniverse … FatFusion
Hmm… I like the word ‘vat’ - conjures up an image of fermenting gloopy stuff.
DataVat sounds a bit tripe tho. I really need a better word for ‘data’. (Not sure there is one)
(Thanks for all the suggestions btw!)
“Stew” or “Casserole” are also gloopy but maybe less tripe? eg DataStew.
I’ve given up trying to find a cool word for data.
Am thinking I’ll go with ‘jamvat’ - at least until somebody comes up with something I like better.
Expect a jamvat release and demo soon!