HM.domains-Human Meaningful Text-Semantics

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Everyone,

In the on-going effort to elicit responses for our core topics as 
head into our first TC Meeting Sept. 17, I'm going to offer a thread 
on HM.domains.

I haven't gotten completely through Mark Brownell's Meaningful Text 
Markup Language work, but I have gotten far enough to see that one of 
our most important domains is a significant subset of that work, 
namely the categorization of text into Human Meaningful areas.

Specifically, I would like to suggest that, since our efforts 
coincide with the concurrent work being conducted on a framework for 
a Semantic Web, that we face a decision on how we want to demarcate 
our use of the term Semantics for HumanMarkup purposes, and what the 
subcategories within this larger category ought to be.

I suspect that we are going to see a bit of frustration and confusion 
as we proceed, so heads up. I suggest that as a starting point we 
consider that, in order to provide for quick topic map searches, and 
increase the efficiency of use for our fledgling language, we try to 
break down these categories into functional, rather than logical or 
philosophically consistent categories. I'm sure Wittgenstein would 
understand and not be the least offended if we don't start from first 
principles, since we are likely to derive them.

The goal would be to have textual communications available readily 
based on these Human Meaningful Categories, from Medical Histories of 
Adult Onset Diabetes to examples of Maladaptive Responses in Conflict 
Resolution.

Have fun.

Ciao,
Rex
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