Re: Character-sets & huml

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Dear Kresten,

I am looking at the url you sent, and I find it fascinating. As of
now, we have neither created, nor considered creating a character-set
per se, but are instead, developing a set of XML/RDF vocabulary
schemata. However, there are several aspects of our work that will
lend themselves to non-verbal symbolic, cultural, gestural and
movement expressions (e.g. facial expressions, hand signals, etc)
which could be codified via a pictogrammic system or systems as
"signs" in the semiotic sense.

I am copying our TC list and the mailing list of the Non-Profit
Corporation we founded to help support this work with this message
since there are several folks on those lists who might be interested
in your work. Also I suggest you visit http://www.humanmarkup.org
which is the website of that Corporation and which contains more
resources than the OASIS TC webpages do.

I will look at your work when I have a bit more time because it does
make sense and could be adapted to several kinds of applications that
HumanML is aimed at producing.

Thanks,
Rex Brooks

>Dear Rex Brooks
>I address you - having noted your crucial role in the Oasis huml
>endeavours - to ask you, if you can help me to locate work on the
>development of character-sets (fonts) of relevance for huml. My
>background is that I am working on the development of format for a
>Personal Electronic Diary
>http://www.psyk.ku.dk/bjerg/ExpHjem/Phenolog.doc/Phenolog.doc.htm, and
>in that connection is facing the task of extending my primary one
>pictogram-font to 14 fonts, following the ideas from 6 years of daily
>use.
>I am a pensioned senior researcher in psychology, and my goal is to
>create this tool as a freeware program/research tool. Unfortunately this
>is presently only on a Macintosh platform, but as it approaches a level
>of broader usability I hope to move it, with "Revolution" to a
>PC/windows platform.
>I think it is a little hard on my economy to sign in as a paying member
>in Oasis, but guess that it should be possible to follow trails leading
>to researchers/designers/ databases of character-sets of interest for
>both huml and my own modest enterprise,
>Sincerely Yours
>Kresten Bjerg
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