[huml-comment] RE: Apartment Clerk Informal Scenario

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks for your time and thought, Dennis.

Ciao,
Rex

At 11:37 AM -0800 12/5/02, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>Len, thank you for this.
>
>I think there is value in continuing to explore this scenario.  I need to
>move on to other work and I am looking at what could be done simply here to
>provide a contribution to the Human ML effort.
>
>My first thoughts are to layer things, as you put out.
>
>1.  Take this example (even though it seems far-fetched in the present) into
>a future "likely story."  Assume that there is some sort of appliance (maybe
>even an ear piece) used by the clerk.  Simplify the idea of the technology
>and consider that an electronic advisor is actually used.
>
>2.  Look at the layers between this likely-story situation and the nature of
>the application and where the database or knowledge base that is drawn on
>comes into it.
>
>3.  Look for what is essential about HML being used down there, and how is
>it used and by whom.
>
>That is, we are navigating some layers of abstraction to get to how HML at
>(3) [what is in some sense the likely direct use, as a plausible story] is
>"worked" to contribute to the situation at (1) and exactly what is the gain.
>
>One key question I then have is what is the point and purpose and value of
>interoperability at that level?
>
>I don't know when I can have more than that to say.  It's my thinking at the
>moment.
>
>-- Dennis
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@ingr.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 13:16
>To: 'dennis.hamilton@acm.org'; humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: RE: [huml-comment] PC-33 -Section 4.4.6-race
>
>
>I'll try this but only informally.  Much would depend
>on the particular application created using the HumanML
>primary types.  This information takes time to create,
>should be inspected by members of the group so described,
>and must be layered for detail.
>
>[ ... ]
>
>IOW, and this all depends on good information, it
>acts like an advisor.  HumanML categorized databases
>for different cultures can be created using XML by
>members of that culture, put up on the web for
>servers anywhere to access, and in fact, the
>application you have been using is a vanilla
>HTML web form.  Nothing exotic or quixotic.
>
>len
>
>
>
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