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Subject: RE: [huml-comment] Request for a motion on PC-33 -Section 4.4.6-r ace
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From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@ingr.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 7:02 AM
To: 'Rex Brooks'; Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga; humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [huml-comment] Request for a motion on PC-33 -Section 4.4.6-r aceI'm not sure "derived" is exactly right. If in fact, one can't say it is a physicalcharacteristic native to an instance, one can say it can be created as a signwhose prototypical properties (in the Sowa sense of a prototype as a setof properties that taken together, determine set membership) are derivablefrom HumanML primary types. Using the example I provided earlier,Race:A = Asian
B = Black
I = Indian
W = White
U = Unknownone sees a term followed by a codelist. What HumanML could providewould be a set of properties for the term, race, which could then be usedto make a selection from that set given an instance. That set mightinclude rules or might be a simple prototype such as slots with values for physicalcharacteristics common to members of the set, historical origins, and so on.(In practice, this is hard to do, but I think that difficulty itself is valuablein focusing the community of interest's use of the term; that in fact,the real value of the term will decline.)Note: the same approach would apply to declaring prototypes forraces of trolls, woodland, plains, mountain, or otherwise. So thisis not special pleading, but precisely how HumanML is intendedto be used.Thanks to Dennis for pointing this one out. It provides a goodexample of how HumanML can be applied to a term of contentionsuch that typical users of the term can clarify precisely howthis term is defined below the level of the initial codelist.len-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com]I would prefer a stronger reason than that it simply can be shown to be non-objective despite current usages, and it can be derived from the existing PBS in a secondary schema, and it can be imported or declared from other interoperable resources. Those are sufficient, but not compelling reasons, whether reapplicable or not.
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