RE: HumanMarkup Reservations

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

We have been having fun, yes.  When we first talked 
about HumanML in other forums, we earned mostly giggles 
and raised eyebrows.  That was the clue it was something 
valuable. :-)

Orgs, schedules, appointments, roles, charts, etc. are 
all good.  On the other hand, if we want to get the 
SMEs started, we need a toolkit to get them 
going.  That Schema needs a LOT of work, so anyone 
who can hack that, have at and let's start them 
out with a foundation.  I'd love to get back to 
the genre language stuff we talked about a few 
months ago so the VRMLies have a place to start. 
They need HLALs desperately.

We will soon be covered up with artists.  I 
presume everyone here has a goatee and sunglasses, 
right?

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]

[Mild diversion.]

> We spent a lot of time here nailing this thing
> down.  Don't start piling up new timber unless
> we are adding a garage.  People should read
> the examples and prototype work.   Discussions
> that veer off into why the semantic web won't
> work, schemas suck, etc. should be ignored.
> Done that already.  Don't confuse the tools
> with the content.

Yep, I totally agree with you here (of course). Most of the best inventors
had to struggle to get their inventions noticed, and more often that not
they came up with rubbish at all other times. I was just saying that the /.
article made me laugh; I didn't say why.

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 :-)