[xtm-wg] Fwd: Re: Use of shakespeare.org in a specification

[Murray Altheim <murray.altheim@eng.sun.com>]

FYI. We can use the shakespeare.org site in our examples! Great!

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Subject: Re: Use of shakespeare.org in a specification
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:09:36 -0500
From: general@shakespeare.org
To: Murray Altheim <Murray.Altheim@eng.sun.com>

We have no problem in using our URL for your testing.

Let us know how we can help and promote our site.

Sincerely,

David Hansen
Webmaster

On 26 Nov 2000, at 15:29, Murray Altheim wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm part of a small consortium of people finishing up a specification
> for something called "Topic Maps", which is a fairly revolutionary way
> of representing knowledge in documents that can live online. If you
> have any interest in the technology or who we are, our "work" page is
> at:
> 
>    http://www.doctypes.org/xtm/home.html
> 
> Among the people involved in this effort are (at least in my opinion),
> some of the most important in knowledge management for the web. I
> believe that Topic Maps will have a major impact, and organizations
> such as the W3C are waiting for us to deliver our specification the
> first week of December, so we're scrambling to the finish right now.
> 
> Why am I writing you? We're using examples in our specification that
> provide a topic map of Shakespeare's "Hamlet", and we use mythical
> URLs in our examples. I'm writing to ask permission to use
> www.shakespeare.org in these examples. People most likely wouldn't try
> to "run" the examples, since they are merely examples, and none of the
> shakespeare.org links are actually active.
> 
> For you there would possibly be some 404 errors if people did,
> otherwise I can't see a downside. The positive side is that it would
> actually serve as an advertisement for your site. Of course, I'd
> expect no payment or any other compensation. We just need permission
> to use your site URL. If you don't want us to do this, we'll make up
> some mythical site.
> 
> If this is okay with you, please let me know via email and we'll
> record it as your permission. If you do, I'd be happy to put a short
> note in the Acknowledgements that www.shakespeare.org is used with
> permission, and make *that* link active.
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Murray
> 
> ......................................................................
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