Help Wanted!
Posted March 20, 2009 
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Comments(15) We are about to start work on an open source database for recording animal bones on archaeological sites, but we can’t think of a name for it! So- crowd-sourcing and all that- I thought I’d open it out to people to come up with suggestions (clean and polite only or we’ll be terribly disappointed with you). I guess we might even be able to scrape together a prize for the one we choose, if you like second-hand conference schwag! You’ll certainly get credited if we choose you so your name will live on for posterity. How about that?
So- suggestions in the comments, or you can contact me using the form, whatever you like…
I was going to suggest OpenDig, but it looks like that’s already taken for a similar purpose. OpenPetCemetery?
abas?
ABCD (Animal Bones Complete Database) ?
The DigDex
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The BoneDex
GeoBone
BoneMap
DigMap
DigShare
BoneShare
IBones (for Indiana bones –> Archaeology
IDig (make the I and D look like a shovel for logo)
BaseBones
AniBones
BoneBase (BB)
SQLETONS
Bonepedia ^_^
Ossuary
We missed the obvious one:
skeletor
Archaeo-Lunch
I had a few fairly glib ideas, like Bonegres, DBone, but then I found the dictionary definition of ‘bonesetter’ to be someone who treats dislocated bones. So, we add a little web 2.0 pixie dust and get:
“Bonesettr”
Maybe it’s bettr without the pixie dust…
Inspired (?) by my high school Latin:
Ubibone
LocOst (locus osteo)
Bone-Loc (really only good if you remember Funky Cold Medina or Wild Thing…)
Depending on your choice of RDBMS, how about Ossicle?
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