Thursday, February 28, 2008

ILRIS: name change?

The Integrated Land Records Information System (ILRIS) is one of the two components of the Maine Strategic Plan. It has been suggested that this acronym may not be the best way to represent the project as discussions unfold around the state.

Since a large part of this initiative will involve developing organizational and political support, perhaps it would be a good idea to attach a more pleasant and (and memorable ) name. Something that suggests geographic collaboration maybe.

It's easy to waste a lot of time pondering the perfect acronym, but what about the MAP Collaborative?

The acronym part of this, MAP, could be Maine (A*) Parcel Collaborative, where the A* could stand for any or all of:

Active | Addressable | Administrative | Advanced | Affiliated | Aggregated | Analyzable | Annexed | Allied | Applied | Assessing | Associated | Automated

For this undertaking to succeed, there will need to be genuine collaboration. The objective is a map, and all of the other A* stuff can just get bundled in there.

Thoughts?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

How about "Accesing Maine's Parcels" (AMP)for an acronym?