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

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Again, David, and Everyone,

I forgot to answer your specific question in my earlier post this 
morning. Yes, please post your modified HumanML taxonomy, and I will 
add it to our collection of contributions. Please make sure you 
specify any IPR you wish to retain. I will still, despite the 
on-going conversations, suggest we consider a subcommittee for High 
Level Ontological/Taxonomical modeling. We're having a heat wave here 
in Northern California just in time for today's solar eclipse, and I 
had to get my garden a long drink before the heat set in again this 
morning.

Note to All, FWIW, I will try to respond to Paul's last message 
tomorrow morning, or else Wednesday. I have a sub-subommittee telecon 
tomorrow morning, working on the first draft of Joint Interfaces 
Specification for Web Services for Interactive Apps and Remote 
Portals. I have more study to do. And, like Len, not nearly enough 
time to do it.

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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