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Subject: RE: HumanMarkup Reservations
Yep. Never built a schema or a relational table set that stayed static. On the other hand, what I actually do for a living is read RFPs, sort requirements and figure out which extend the product for all customers (no charge, mad'm) and which are one-offs ($5750 a week until done, Sir, and you maintain it). Part of the test of what is there right now is to figure out what can't be done with it and what can. For this, we have to listen to customers. The VRMLies got here and started yapping early, so they were listened to. We only had one psychologist and even though he is the chair, he doesn't yap loudly ;-). There actually are some early threads on the human object in which we tried to devise some rules of thumb for settling these things. We knew coming in that to just say HumanML, we were setting a universal scope. The comments on identity are very pertinent. We were right at that juncture before we stopped. More on that topic? Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: cagle@olywa.net [mailto:cagle@olywa.net] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:49 PM To: humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: HumanMarkup Reservations > It's our job, as TC members, to make sure that the concepts that have been > rasied in Phase 0, and that form the foundations for all future HumanMarkup > work, are manfest as efficiently as possible given the current > developmental environment that we have. It just so happens that we have a > WWW, XML, Schemata, RDF, SW, VRML, and a whole load of experts on them all > in one place. We're bound to have mini-disasters somewhere, if not big > ones; but at least they'll be cool :-) I'll second that. I'm also going to go out on a bit of a limb here. Schemas are evolutionary, and are shaped by requirements. They are also far from static, until such time as you basically stamp the current version with a 1.0 so that they can be used as benchmarks for future evolution. The thinking that I've seen in my first (admittedly cursory) read of the documents has been heavily shaped by psychologists view. It is valid, certainly, and may in fact be absolutely perfect in describing that particular domain. However, there are areas where other domain experts (those involved in online gaming, those involved in e-commerce, those involved in relational maps, etc.) may look at the standard as it exists now and feel it doesn't meet their needs. These documents will likely change ... a great deal ... in response to that, and the result will be something that nobody really totally likes but that everyone will at least grudgingly admits provides the groundwork for their own development work. I apologize if I'm treading on old wounds that have somewhat healed, but it is precisely at those old wounds that the most significant action takes place. To jump metaphors back to the one Len was using, you may have built the most beautiful cathedral in the world on a site, but if what was really needed there was an office building then, yes, it may be worth tearing it down some and re-examining old assumptions. -- Kurt ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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