[humanmarkup] Base Schema-chronemic

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Everyone,

I'm introducing a new element to consider today. This is the first of 
what I call our "stuff-ics" family of elements that end with ic and 
into which a lot of stuff is stuffed. The other members of this 
family are kinesics, haptics and proxemics, to which I will suggest 
adding cosmetics in a separate post. However, one reason for pointing 
out the apparent grouping of these terms into a humorous family is to 
call attention to one of the reasons why I think it is important for 
all of the OASIS standards to contribute to a system-wide glossary. 
Both our TC and the WSIA /WSRP TCs include a glossary, and while I 
haven't read all of the websites for the TCs, I expect many also do 
this. So I am copying this message to Karl Best to consider that 
suggestion--an OASIS glossary, harmonizing usages where possible and 
listing terms with their complete definitions as used in OASIS 
Standards with comparisons and/or contrasts to usages outside of XML. 
This came about because for the purpose of not using or choosing 
between or amongst several overloaded terms it became necessary to 
resort to calling a class of services thingies until such time as 
that discussion can settle on more precise, less overloaded 
terminology. We need a standard reference for our standards. This 
goes hand-in-glove with the development of standard templates for 
OASIS specifications and websites .

So, having said that, I will get down off my soap box and proceed on 
with the business to hand:

chronemic

This is a Complex Type with the attribute of abstract, which we 
should all be getting more familiar with by now, though it applies 
with some less apparent ramifications in this element.

This element gathers together the concepts related to human time 
management, and they can be used very different with respect to 
individuals and cultures. Time perceptions include punctuality, 
readiness to act, willingness to wait, and how such states influence 
interactions. Time use affects lifestyles, daily agendas, speech and 
movement, to name only a few.

Rather than cite the entire description from the straw man schema, I 
am going to ask you to refresh your memories by reading it again, and 
I will introduce more of those less apparent ramifications later this 
week. However, as I ready my further comments for channel and 
chronemic, I would like you all to consider some relatively pressing 
connections between our efforts and such efforts as knowledge 
management, which, like time management, involves one of the largest 
areas for human markup to provide means for improving. Pulling, or 
extracting, or abstracting data from anecdotal text, such as 
conference reports, historical accounts, etc, is one of the tools 
HumanMarkup can provide and one of the aims we seek to fulfill.

More to come,
Rex


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