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Subject: RE: HM.Requirement: authority (Re: Case in Point-cultural Module:IslamicFundamentalism?)
You
could use the Dublin Core to identify the source. Characteristics of
authority are ascribed, that is, one grants authority. So a
receiver of a
message can stamp it as authoritative, or grant some entity (eg, a
university, some scholar, etc) as an authority. Then the
source and
the
authority are joined records for that message.
The
next level is the authority to create types. This is the choice
of
choices issue. For example, we have granted OASIS the
brandability of our work. They in turn have granted members
resources. These are assertions the existence of which
enables one to mark these messages as transiting within the
scope
of the contract. The contract has created certain
relationships and these are governed by rules which can be
checked to validate that a behavior is of a type within
the
scope
of the contract and verify that some instance of that
behavior is valid to that type. Its particular
representation
in
some media may be styled. XSLT is a means to transform;
the
properties of the target of that transformation are its style
properties.
It is
important to define/ascribe a scope (view dimensions) within which
messages are
exchange and to create a test by which one can verify that
the
message is reacted to in a valid way. In the message
from
Satwinder Mangat there are several view dimensions.
He
also describes a culture (a sikh culture), rules for dress,
and
behavior, symbolic artifacts, etc. all of which one could
use to
create a HumanML description of his view of this
culture as described in his message. He provides enough
information to test whether or not some person, behavior,
artifact, message, etc is valid within that view. In fact,
that
is the message he wants to convey: that members
of
this culture are to be differentiated from another. So
he has
created dimensions corresponding to opponency
although not one of conflict. He also notes that there
are
overlaps in these groups which may create a false
or
superstitious interpretation.
There
is quite a lot to work with there.
Len Bullard
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