Help Wanted!

Posted March 20, 2009 * 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…

15 Comments so far

  1. Jason Birch on March 20th, 2009

    I was going to suggest OpenDig, but it looks like that’s already taken for a similar purpose. OpenPetCemetery? :)

  2. Tom Kralidis on March 20th, 2009

    abas? :)

  3. Guillaume Sueur on March 20th, 2009

    ABCD (Animal Bones Complete Database) ?

  4. Vanessa on March 20th, 2009

    The DigDex
    The BoneDex
    GeoBone
    BoneMap
    DigMap
    DigShare
    BoneShare
    IBones (for Indiana bones –> Archaeology :P )
    IDig (make the I and D look like a shovel for logo)

  5. aborruso on March 20th, 2009

    BaseBones
    AniBones

  6. Lasma Sietinsone on March 21st, 2009

    BoneBase (BB)

  7. Sean Gillies on March 21st, 2009

    SQLETONS

  8. Gabriel on March 22nd, 2009

    Bonepedia ^_^

  9. Schuyler Erle on March 22nd, 2009

    Ossuary

  10. Jody Garnett on March 23rd, 2009

    We missed the obvious one:

    skeletor

  11. Terry on March 23rd, 2009

    Archaeo-Lunch

  12. Barry Rowlingson on March 23rd, 2009

    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…

  13. Brad on March 23rd, 2009

    Inspired (?) by my high school Latin:

    Ubibone
    LocOst (locus osteo)
    Bone-Loc (really only good if you remember Funky Cold Medina or Wild Thing…)

  14. ChrisW on March 23rd, 2009

    Depending on your choice of RDBMS, how about Ossicle?

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