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Subject: [humanmarkup-comment] Brass Tacks Revisited
- From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
- To: humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 05:56:21 -0800
Title: Brass Tacks Revisited
Hi Everyone,
It occurred to me that similar issues keep cropping up in our work.
This is coming up because Joseph, Ranjeeth, Kurt and I have been
thinking about coming up with use-case ideas featuring the utility of
HumanML as an emerging technology with potential to combat terrorism.
I thought I would revisit some old posts of mine called Brass Tacks
and summarize those thoughts because they were attempts boil down
complex issues to core issues. So here they are:
Brass Tacks 1:
Bottom Line Applications...This is my opinion, but based on the way
the world really works, Business Applications pay the bills for all
the rest, and though we have some very worthy idealistic goals, in
order to achieve a penetration of the marketplace sufficient to
realize any goals, we will need to address those nasty bottom line
economic issues early on.
... the same practical reasons why reducing miscommunication
improves performance in such areas as conflict resolution, work in
spades for business, and that means improvements in bottom line profit
performance...
When terms can have varying meanings in different contexts, HumanML
can specify the context. When terms are meant to carry emotional
connotations, those connotations can be made explicit for the sake of
emphasis or understanding.
To be specific, adding up the improvements that can be had in
performance evaluations, progress reports, contracts, conference
reports, all add up to cumulative improvement in the quality and depth
of information and data at the fingertips of top management, so the
number one Brass Tacks Application is Executive Management Decision
Support.
Brass Tacks 2:
...we are here to create a markup language, not describe human
behavior, psychology, cultural frameworks or traits. Those things will
be described and developed by those who use HumanML.
This observation was based on my own experience in phase 0, when...
"I got in there amongst the trees and completely forgot there
even was a forest somewhere."
Brass Tacks 3:
VISIBILITY ...we are likely to draw more attention than almost any
other single OASIS Initiative...
...our purpose is to bring those qualities and concerns and processes
that are UNIQUELY Human with a Cap H to that digital
environment...
That means enabling emotional content and context to be included, as
with music and other arts which express these complex feelings that
make us human, and this is important because that reduction in
misunderstanding of which we have spoken and at which we aim can only
be accomplished by including that information in our communications,
and including it accurately.
Oddly enough, that means that you all need to have the courage to
accept occasional embarassment as happens when humans interact.
...encouraging honesty in emotional contexts... we can only be
successful if we improve accuracy or fidelity in communications. And
if we just preach that people ought to tell the truth, we will fail as
surely as if we had never tried in the first place.
However, if we can face our own embarassments in public and show how
it actually improves understanding, as it will and does, then we can
achieve this by example.
Brass Tacks 4:
The Importance of Being Common
I have posted this twice so I won't do it again. It boils down to not
trying to make things high-flown and pretentious. It means that
instead of trying to sound good and look good, we should just do our
level best to do our work as well as we can for the common good.
Brass Tacks 5:
There was no Brass Tacks 5, but I am adding it now.
Make a Plan. Create an Outline First.
Don't just dive in with a lot of I-feel-good-about-doing-this and
expect to achieve great results. Or, at least, when that feeling wears
off and you are faced with the less-than-great outcome of that initial
burst of energy, don't get discouraged, but go back, and,
Make a Plan....
Figure out where you want to go, and how you think you are going to
get there. Then post it so that the common sense of the group can hack
at it and hone it into shape. Let's make use of our group
strengths.
Ciao,
Rex
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