RE: HumanMarkup Reservations

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

It scopes it and it bases it on work 
done by subject matter experts.  YahooGroups 
is hardly esoteric.  70 or so folks watched. 
The effort was announced on XML-Dev, VRML lists, 
and elsewhere.  No secrets but maybe some 
secretions. <gesture type="smileyWithoutSmirk" />

This isn't a CS initiative.  That 
work is done or being done elsewhere. 
This is a subject matter initiative 
and we need to build tools first for 
the subject matter experts who then 
can create the domains.  What we learned 
from the semiotics and hermaneutics 
literature was how they go about 
analyzing human communication.  That 
has been informative given the charter.

Len 
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Sean B. Palmer [mailto:sean@mysterylights.com]

> The two domains that were more seminal than any other
> were semiotics and hermaneutics.

Ah, well, that narrows it down a bit then. The study of symbols, resources,
and mappings, and the study of human behaviour through social traditions
(or rather, the philosophy thereof).

I'm unimpressed. Not with the volume of work that was produced through
Phase 0, but the fact that it all seems to be secreted away on lists, or in
other esoteric locations.