RE: [humanmarkup] food for thought

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

Another way to look at that is in terms of 
a control language for instruments if you 
consider body parts to be instruments. Music 
as several markings for expressing a phrase 
(eg, legato, staccato) and how to articulate 
each or several notes of music.  Similarly 
midi allows you to set such parameters as 
velocity (how hard in theory the key is 
struck or how much effort), and shaping 
of a note (Attack Decay Sustain Release 
or ADSR for short), duration and so forth. 
The EMOTE article describes Spreading, 
Enclosing, Rising, Sinking, Advancing and 
Retreating) for shaped of torso motions, 
and claims Effort as a high level term 
that reflect inner psychological conditions. 

So, just as in psychology there are multiple 
schools for analysis and terminologies, we 
are faced with the task of either adapting 
some one or all of these, or creating categories 
from which any or all of these might be 
derived by transformation.  A tough problem 
and by now the newcomers should have some 
idea of what the last number of months 
have been about.   

Note that Sean demonstrated with RDF how 
one can use a relationship and set to 
show rough equivalences and we have 
in XML Schemas several mechanisms for 
declaring types and derivations of types, 
so in terms our definitional tools, this is doable.  
Getting the different groups to accept the 
equivalences definitionally can be an 
arduous task.  Caveat vendor.

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

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


-----Original Message-----
From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) 
My concern is mostly that HumanML stay high level 
and very easy to use so that the derived languages 
get most of the work and the HumanML is repurposable.
Even as we look at domains, we have to ask ourselves 
first what the role of HumanML is quite precisely 
in the abstraction layer.

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

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


-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Cagle [mailto:kurt@kurtcagle.net]


This is perhaps off topic, but is anyone aware of a MIDI to XML schema map?
I have to wonder about the intersection between an XML-ized MIDI, SMIL and
HumanML ...