[humanmarkup-comment] Re: of the uses of HML

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi David,

I am wondering if perhaps we ought to spin off a subcommittee to 
discuss the interrelated issues of High Level Meta Data coordination. 
This would include Ontological/Taxonomical structuring of HumanML for 
TopicMaps and Knowledge Technologies. I say this because it is a very 
specialized and important aspect of our work and needs to harmonized 
with those related efforts in much that same way that we are seeking 
to harmonize the Base Primary Human Markup Language XML Schema with 
the application areas at a lower, more mundane, level. This is an 
issue that I will consider for our next monthly teleconference 
meeting.

Comments?

Ciao,
Rex

At 12:29 AM -0700 6/10/02, David Dodds wrote:
>Hi everyone
>
>As I have mentioned before; in the conference KT2002, Knowledge 
>Technologies, I had several papers there and one of them was about 
>using HML as a means of subject indication (topic maps) for  a graph 
>based system which supports Demassian cognitive processing. I 
>explained how XGGDM, an XML-based graph representation language was 
>used to represent formative subgraphs based on events (I hesitate to 
>use the word "experiences" even in quote marks) of  a represented 
>"graph forming author".
>
>I used a modified version of the HML controlled vocabulary 
>(taxonomy), and gave a reference to where the modified version could 
>be viewed. I can put a copy of my modifed HML taxonomy into a 
>posting here if there is sufficient interest.
>
>Since that time Ive been developing further XML software which 
>includes a taxonomy for spatial nomenclature to be used with further 
>development of my Lakoff-deBono XML-SVG animated diagrams. The point 
>of the diagrams is that they are understandable by both humans na 
>dby computer programs, and provide an "analog" means of 
>communicating with a digital system about such things as social 
>concepts/perceptions. My paper at the Knowledge technology 
>conference and a paper at XML Orlando last year showed code and 
>narrative as to how a formative or dynamically constructed 
>collection of contexts are used by the computer to form situatedness.
>
>I have also been working on a modest taxonomy for "linguistic 
>hedges" which can be used to provide parameterization of the HML 
>terms used in say a subject indicator usage scenario. While XTMs 
>current scope control provides the ability to use other topics nodes 
>as "scoping" my 'diagram' work requires a parameterization of terms 
>so that they are not just used/not used or on/off or whatever binary 
>distinction title one wishes to use. I have tried considering using 
>Hytime time representation and have some hems and haws about that. I 
>look forward to development of a time/epoch/era representation which 
>is more organic than HT.
>
>I also would like to point out that in my book WROX Professional XML 
>Meta Data, i showed the usage of spatial terms that were defined 
>actively (formatively) and according to situation, rather than 
>fixedd as vocabulary terms in a carved in granite ontology. I look 
>forward to our group developing dynamic = formative ontologies and i 
>think that there is room for cros-polenization )of knowledge, if not 
>technique) with the various upper ontology and dynamic ontology 
>groups that are out there. We  may find it fruitful to discuss 
>"microtheories" in our development of time/epoch/era which allow 
>""intelligent"" flow of processing to occur in the computer. humans 
>have these (or equivalent/better) as BACKGROUND knowledge in jus 
>tabout any culture. these microtheries are like link nodes/hubs 
>which allow similar or related "time repsentations" to functionally 
>coexist with out being identical.
>
>
>David Dodds
>
>
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