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Subject: [huml] History, Introduction,Purpose and Scope of HumanML for CIDOC 2/03
- From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
- To: humanmarkup@lists.oasis-open.org, james.landrum@ndsu.nodak.edu,cognite@zianet.com, rkthunga@interposting.com, rnixon@qdyn.com
- Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 06:35:00 -0800
Title: History, Introduction, Purpose and Scope of HumanML
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Hi Everyone,
Please excuse the mutliple posts for those of you whose
memberships allow the TC post, but I want all to get this short paper.
I am attaching it as well in Word. I went slightly over 500 words, but
this is pretty bare bones as is.
The Development, Purpose and Scope of the
Human Markup Language:
A Brief History and Introduction
The effort to create The Human Markup Language, HumanML, started with
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga's frustration during his study of Psychology at
XXX. It was due largely to the discrepancy in the rapid improvement of
technology developed from the "hard" physical sciences of
Biology, Physics, Chemistry, etc., and the lack of similar improvement
in the "soft" human-centered sciences of Psychology,
Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, etc. This discrepancy continued to
occupy Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga as he entered into the workplace in the
burgeoning arena of web development in the 1990s.
In this environment, Ranjeeth concluded that one way to help such
improvements to human concerns in Information Technology was through
XML, the eXtensible Markup Language. XML allows for standard
vocabularies or "Markup Languages" to be developed in the
various "domains" of information technology. XML allows for
interoperability across digital information systems, platforms and
software programs.
Ranjeeth started the Humanmarkup discussion list on YahooGroups in
February, 2001 to explore how to bring technological improvements to
the practices of soft "human" sciences.
The initial discussions were captured in the archives of YahooGroups.
The discussions brought out a number of purposes to which various
members wished to see improvements.
Chief among these purposes was clarifying communication,
especially within digital information systems. It was also seen that
standardizing Human Information was occuring in various efforts to
establish a system to assure uniform authentication of basic Human
Identity.
Extending this to ensure both greater depth of individual information
and control over that information was identified as another important
purpose.
Further purposes were identified by application-area. Among them
were:
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Anthropology
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Archeology
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Artificial Intelligence
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Biometrics
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Business Decision Support (Heuristics)
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Communications
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Conflict Resolution
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Cultural Studies
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Diplomacy
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Economics
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Emergency Services
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Government Record Keeping
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Human Behavior Representation
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Individual Personalization and Identity Authentication Enhancement
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Linguistics
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Marketing
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Medicine
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Psychology
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Sociology
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Virtual Reality
It was decided that HumanML would consist of XML Schemata for defining
use of terms and RDF Schemata to associate those terms with standard
resources in Academic, Governmental and Business use to ensure
interoperability. It was also decided to associate HumanML with
standard Ontological and Taxonomic frameworks.
It was decided to concentrate on improving communication as the
mission and to move the effort to OASIS, The Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards, to provide public
access, credibility and the protection of Intellectual Property Rights
for the standard specifications anticipated.
The OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee was established in
September, 2001.
The early months of the TC were spent in gathering requirements,
during which the principles of Semiotics, or Semiology, were adopted
as the guiding prinicples of this effort.
We delivered our first version of a Requirements Document April 31,
2002:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup/schema/huml-primary-base-1.0.xsd
and our first Committee Specification, The Human Markup Language
Primary Base XML Specification 1.0 December 12, 2002, which was
modified slightly after an initial Public Comment Period of Thirty
(30) days and adopted January 12, 2003:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup/#documents
Some of you will be getting the four images
for the Social Services-Child Protective Services, Status Report,
Court Hearing Report and District Data Generation Use Case later
today.
Ciao,
Rex
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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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