It is well-known that a profitable strategy for getting funding from JISC is to think up a great title and then build a project round it. My top ten JISC project names countdown.
10. SKOS-HASSET. A Swedish processed meat project?
9. SWORD-ARM. Oh, the silly billies.
8. Bricolage. Tres chic; trust the librarians.
7. AstroDAbis. This is a condition you get after staying up all night looking through a telescope.
6. SupOERGlue. And you need superglue to hold this contracted lexical acronym sandwich together.
5. BeRT. Salt of the earth, they are, at Brockenhurst. (See ADAMS for middle-class version.)
4. Walking Through Time. Good wholesome stuff.
3. Blacklight in Hull. Very sinister.
2. Bebop. Good oblique referential stuff.
1. Saving Private Data. A while ago now - simply broke the mold.
And JISC itself gets a special award for naming a programme SWaNI. Guts.
All this tosh was inspired by the fact that I presently have a project to name. The possibilities are just too dire for some witty word play. The baseline is Chemistry Semantic Frame Network. CSFN? Do me a favour. ChemNet? Been done. SemChem? Sounds like an explosive. ChemSem? Naah. NetChem. It's just not there.
How about a bit of Latin? Reticulum for network. RetChem. ReticuChem. Chemiculum...well.. naah.
If shuffling the words around is not doing the trick then perhaps shuffling the letters will do better. So I put Chemistry FrameNet into an anagram machine to produce 3-word candidates. The results were superb.
Here's my top 5 countdown.
5. A Chemistry Ferment. Bit too sensible.
4. Ferryman Chest Mite. Nasty.
3. Amethyst Ferric Man. Very chemistique.
2. Cashmere Ferny Mitt. A bit sado-masochistic.
1. Mean Mythic Ferrets.
Has to be.
