RE: Nothing GNU Under the Sun

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

Actually, all of XML and KM has been driven by those developments.  DARPA has

been driving the boat for a long time despite what you read in the official history

of the web organizations.   Gruber's group contributed to CALS and CALS educated

most of the markup community.   Many of us who participated in the SGML work 

and the work on XML were versed in the CALS/DARPA/DICE work. 

 

As Ranjeeth notes, there is a smooth integration

of ideas starting back even thousands of years ago, but in the case of the Gruber

paper, it is very direct.  The paper even illustrates the use of the hypertext system

for comment and annotation, how to build ontologies, etc.

 

You didn't think the Semantic Web, RDF and all of that were original inventions?

Hardly.   The point is that one can spend a lifetime working to get the concepts into

the mainstream.  There is usually at least a ten year delay from the lab to the

store shelf.   I bring this up because, 1) HumanML depends on doing the research

into existing and past works to get the right synthesis of ideas for the products

(schema, rule sets etc) and 2) because by the the time it is really an effective

work, we may all be a bit older.

 

Design for the future.  Implement for the present.  Use the past as source but

use your intuition to choose.  

 

len

 

To: Bullard, Claude L (Len) ; humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org

Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 5:51 PM

Subject: Re: Nothing GNU Under the Sun

Whoa, that's spooky. It's almost as if the whole of XML development and KM has been anticipated in that little blurb.