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Subject: RE: markup race
The draft you are reading is a strawman for a Schema toolkit using codes that are common among database systems. Nothing of the sort you suggest is considered. Do you have a suggestion for alternatives, preferably, that are widely accepted in your profession? Can you provide authoritative citations as sources for these? Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: arthide@magicvillage.de [mailto:arthide@magicvillage.de] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:41 AM To: humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: markup race To whom it may concern. HumanML: "The aim is to enhance the fidelity of human communication." Since i am an anthropologist who often handles html and some other codes, i can imagine, your HumanML undertaking is meant as a subversive joke. At least the use of 'race' in a draft from your websites (see the relevant cut of code below) indicates, you want to say that the in oasis involved US companies still record workers and employees as black, red, white halfblood or quarterblood. Code lists with values for jewish and half jewish? Scientifically, genetically, anthropologically, zoologically the idea of different human races cannot be prooved. Read Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (Genetics, Stanford), to understand why humankind is not divided into races. Humans are one race among the races of hominides. You may find opponents to this scientific teaching. However, a language which aims to be as universal as possible, if i take your motto above for better than Brave New World, should not be decorated with race ideology, this way or that way. Better leave it out now immediately. The present realisation of the idea of HumanML also in deeper and more complex philosophical aspects needs to be criticized from all possible sides, to effect its design radically. Volker Hamann The height and weight types should be numbers but have to allow for different measurement systems </xhtml:p> - <xhtml:p> <xhtml:strong>NOTE:</xhtml:strong> The race, hair color, eyeColor, build attributes need code lists for values </xhtml:p> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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