RE: [huml] Locale-centric User Interfaces

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

It's a *serious* joke, James.

It illustrates the absurdity of HumanML claims 
when pushed to extremes, and the assumptions 
of competence by reference.  

Here is some feedback by one of the world's 
leading experts who is often referenced on 
this list:

"Re HumanML:  I can't imagine that as anything other
than a joke or a fantasy of a naive waif who picked up
a stick and thought it was a magic wand.  Did you see
the kind of stuff those people write:

   http://xml.gov/documents/completed/huml/HumanMLinGov.htm
   Human Markup Language in Government

As a taxpayer, I want to sue them for wasting my money."

len

-----Original Message-----
From: James Landrum [mailto:james.landrum@ndsu.nodak.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:17 PM
To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
Cc: 'Rex Brooks'; huml@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [huml] Locale-centric User Interfaces


Len et al,
Seems to me that designing andcreating OperatingSystem(OS)-specific GUIs 
are couinter-productive in terms of longer term goals of 
opensource/openaccess projects, particularly those of the Semantic Web, 
and particularly of existing, new, and emerging cultural heritage 
ontologies.  That said, the windowsxp.jpg is sorta cute, and I like the 
ethnic country-style theme, but this appears to be more of an XP desktop 
countrified desktop icon set than anything else. If what I interepret 
this to be is correct, you are supportive of vendor-specific windows 
desktop customizations, etc., and that is fine by me, but I don't 
understand the tie-in to the HumanML effort beyond recognizing the 
potential for smaller local or even regionally-oriented themeatic GUIs- 
and that is something that requires a mature HumanML, which we don't 
have as yet.

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

>As part of the HumanML effort to explore applications 
>of HumanML to use culturally specific ontolologies 
>for products as in simple visualization systems for 
>complex data, the approach of locale-centric design 
>has been proposed.  Locale-centric design sets the 
>themes of the GUI to be appropriate to the customer 
>region.  Please review the mockup design attached 
>for the most common GUI, Windows XP.  Note the domains 
>of interest have been adopted into the icons to the 
>left while all other semiotic constructs are consistent 
>with the culture of the locale.
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