Re: HumanMarkup Reservations

[Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga <rkthunga@humanmarkup.org>]

> 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 :-)
>
How about...
<serious level="98%>HumanML needs to do something quick!</serious>

Ok, funny <humor level="60%"/>...but you are right in many ways <correct
level="70%"/>.  We are leveraging the work we've done at YahooGroups, and
we've discussed a lot of theoretical, conceptual, and technical topics but
real, practical applications haven't been fully outlined--we got as far as
the HumanML_Write editor prototype, general list of possible apps, marked
sentences with different colors and fonts (based on emotion and intensity),
and several use-case diagrams.

Before our first meeting, we will start out being very specific in these
regards.  As mentioned in my earlier post, a formal applications document
will certainly be part of a pre-meeting HumanML deliverable.

Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
HumanMarkup Chair
rkthunga@humanmarkup.org
(646) 456-9076



> 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.
>

> 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.
>

> --
> Kindest Regards,
> Sean B. Palmer
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>
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