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Subject: [humanmarkup] Base Schema-culture
Hi Everyone, I'm pushing my self to get this new element discussion going this week, rather than wait until I have put in the further thought it deserves, because it ties into the sequence of humanGroup, community and culture. And I want to make sure it stays closely associated in our memories rather than letting another weekend separate it from the discussion of community. culture This is ComplexType with the attribute of abstract. I agree with that but I do think that it will reference community and humanGroup. That does not mean that I think it needs to have a formal derivation because it is so widely used to mean so many different aspects of social life that we cannot preclude uses to which we might not agree, or which do not adhere to our specific definitions. What I do think is that, once we have thoroughly chewed on it so that we know what we need it to mean for HumanML purposes, is to apply our huml: prefix to it in order to have its use in HumanML adhere to the definitions we eventually prescribe. That is a long way to say that we need to co-opt this term for our use in a way that clearly distinguishes it from more common usage, and allows us to use the more common definitions without diluting our use of the term as an element in our Base Schema. We may decide to do this with a number of terms, and we will have to be careful in formulating our overall specification so that such terms that have dual purpose are clearly understood to have specific meanings when prefixed with huml: This is, as it is with all our elements, prefigured by belonging to the attribute group humlIdentifierAtts. We may want to enlarge upon the description of this element as Human Culture Cultural characteristics. I think we should enlarge upon that description, however, before I get into that, I thought it better to discuss this much first. What I think is that we want to set the stage for cultural modules, moving up the ladder of abstraction from humanGroup to community to culture to... But that is for later. Have an interesting weekend. Ciao, Rex -- Rex Brooks Starbourne Communications Design 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA 94702 *510-849-2309 http://www.starbourne.com * rexb@starbourne.com
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