[Myexperiment-discuss] Re: Taverna and myExperiment slogans for ISMB Poster

[Andrea Wiggins]

IMHO, slogans are helpful as a conversation starter, and help people  
remember the discussion later; the myExperiment slogan is really quite  
good in that respect. Text on posters is vastly overrated, as most  
people aren't actually willing to read anything smaller than 48 pt,  
and it's usually a discussion prompt more than a standalone  
information source, depending on the venue. My primary criticism of  
about 80% of posters is "too many words", particularly if they are  
presented during a reception.

Why is it called Taverna, anyway?  The association that the name  
brings to mind for me is from the "In Taberna" section from Carl  
Orff's Carmina Burana, which has been called "the greatest drinking  
song in the world". It's also the dullest part of the composition for  
female vocalists, who are largely excluded from the drinking songs.  
Unless they sing tenor, of course, which choral directors rarely permit.

Perhaps Taverna is the tap from which the experimental work flows? If  
something better occurs to me, I'll pass it on - what's your deadline?

Andrea

On Jun 15, 2009, at 12:02 PM, address@hidden  
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As I'm now building the Taverna and myExperiment poster for ISMB (with
> the help of Jits fancy graphics skills), I was thinking of putting  
> in a
> slogan (like that of Biocatalogue - 'The Life Science Web Service
> Registry'), for both myExperiment and Taverna.
>
> myExperiment has a good one - 'Where experimental work flows'.
> Taverna doesn't seem to have one.
>
> Should I use this idea, or abandon it for just some text? If Taverna
> should have a slogan, what should it be?
> Do people want me to put the myExperiment one in as it is ?
>
> Any thoughts are appreciated.
>
> cheers,
> Paul.