HumanMarkup Reservations

["Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>]

Book your tickets now... no, not those kind of reservations! I mean
"reservations" in the pejorative sense.

As Manos has pointed out to me, I seem to be stuck on some odd sort of
"HumanML: emoticons; HumanML: emotions" thing, and it's bugging me. My rule
of thumb is that if I don't have an application of something running (or
runnable) on my desktop, then it's not useful. That's why I'm not too keen
on VRML.

So I seem to be lost out here. Lost in a kind of "well, we'll charter a
group and work out what it does later" ambience... and somebody needs to
sort that out quick. Not IMHO; *really*. How do I get this through to
people? Perhaps it's just that I don't have the HumanML available yet to do
so :-)

Of course, having said that, HumanML can't and won't be used in plain text,
any more than people are going to be writing chunks of XHTML. It's not
going to be used on IRC either; sorry, but real time HumanML isn't going to
happen unless the interface somewhat kicks-ass.

What I'd like the group to focus on more is useful stuff like managing
collaborations, trust mechanisms, and the like. Of course, I'm coming at
this from the RDF angle, so I'm already thinking about trust on the
Semantic Web and so forth, but there is a great overlap between that and
HumanMarkup. Do I trust this person? How do I establish that trust?

Another possible direction is a cultural database deeley, where you could
look up gestures and so forth, and be able to learn details about cultural
idioms; useful for business meetings and so forth. I probably wouldn't be
able to help with that, and it would have very little to do with HumanML,
but it would be useful all the same.

Something else - that Kurt raised - would be establishing mappings from
SVG+metadata to text using XSLT or whatever. I'm not sure what that has to
do with "HumanMarkup", but then contrarywise, I'm not sure what
"HumanMarkup" has to do with anything, so we'd better bend the rules a
little bit.

Just hide behind a wall when an OASIS official comes, or something.

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Kindest Regards,
Sean B. Palmer
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