Re: [ba-unrev-talk] Technical Ontologies Considered Harmful
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Personally, I don't think there is an issue here. The ability
to accurately describe an individual has important uses,
in addition to possible misuses. But enforcing ontological
homogeneity by censure or fiat would not only prevent
useful results from being achieved, it would in effect be an
attempt to mandate "permissible truth". (01)
However, I doubt that I need to have said anything at all,
since I doubt that such protests will carry much weight.
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Mei Lin Fung wrote: (03)
> I would recommend that in addition to blogging, you should post
> comments, so that your views are registered in the OASIS archives. See
> the end of Dennis' post below, which gives the pointers and the final
> statement, copied here is:
>
> "Comments are welcome and encouraged from all interested parties.
> Comments
> should be submitted to the humanmarkup comment list at
> humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org. "
>
> Just last Thursday Jon Bosak had a conference call with Doug and the
> Bootstrap Alliance group where we started to understand from him the ins
> and outs of forming a hyperscope technical committee in OASIS.
>
> In that call, he highlighted the ability for PUBLIC comments on the
> standards. You do not have to be an organizational or individual member
> of OASIS for your views to be registered.
>
> I think it is important that members of BA-Unrev who have concerns about
> the Human markup language to go ahead and post to the human-mark-up
> public comment list mentioned above. For those of you who do post,
> please send your post to BA-unrev, I'm sure there will be others, like
> myself who are interested in what our community says in this critical
> and important interchange arena where philosophy meets computer
> engineering.
>
> Mei Lin Fung
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-unrev-talk@bootstrap.org
> [mailto:owner-ba-unrev-talk@bootstrap.org] On Behalf Of Dennis E.
> Hamilton
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 2:12 PM
> To: Bootstrap Alliance Unrev
> Subject: [ba-unrev-talk] Technical Ontologies Considered Harmful
>
> I just received something off of a government list server that threw me.
> I
> really thought that the announcement of "Human Markup Language" was a
> spoof
> of some kind. I really did.
>
> I gather it is not. I am very concerned. I blogged what I saw and what
> bothers me as well as I could at
>
>
> http://nfocentrale.net/orcmid/blog/2002_11_24_lair-chive.asp#85127383
>
> and I would love to have a way to make what I see as the error of this
> more
> clear.
>
> -- orcmid
>
> ------------------
> Dennis E. Hamilton
> http://NuovoDoc.com/
> mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org
> tel. +1-206-932-6970
> cell +1-206-779-9430
> The Miser Project: http://miser-theory.info/
> AIIM DMware: http://DMware.info/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CIO Council XML Working Group (XMLWG)
> [mailto:XMLWG@LISTSERV.GSA.GOV]On Behalf Of Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 06:10
> To: XMLWG@LISTSERV.GSA.GOV
> Subject: [XMLWG] HumanMarkup - Primary Base Specification 1.0 available
> for Public Comments
>
> To XML WG members:
>
> I am posting the following announcement, originally posted by Karl Best
> of
> OASIS, regarding the availability of the HumanMarkup Primary Base Schema
> 1.0 for public comments. All persons are very much encouraged to
> provide
> feedback on the specifications during this time period...details below.
>
> -----
> Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
> OASIS HumanMarkup TC - Chair
> (917) 494-1684 (m)
> rkthunga@humanmarkup.og
>
> ------
>
> The chair and vice-chair of the OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee
> are
> pleased to announce that the Technical Committee has voted unanimously
> to
> approve its huml-primary-base-1.0 document as a Committee Specification.
>
> The HumanMarkup TC also voted to begin the process of moving the
> specification to an OASIS Standard by initiating a 30-day public review
> period with respect to the huml-primary-base-1.0 Committee
> Specification,
> in accordance with Section 2 of the OASIS Technical Committee Process
> document (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.shtml).
>
> The public review period extends from
> Tuesday, November 12, 2002, until
> Thursday, December 12, 2002 (inclusive).
>
> The specification and accompanying schema document may be found at
>
> Human Markup Language Primary Base Specification 1.0
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup/schema/huml-primary-bas
> e-
> 1.0.xsd
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup/documents/HM.Primary-Ba
> se-
> Spec-1.0.doc
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup/documents/HM.Primary-Ba
> se-
> Spec-1.0.html
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup/documents/HM.Primary-Ba
> se-
> Spec-1.0.pdf
>
> or from the HumanMarkup Web site at
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup
>
> Comments are welcome and encouraged from all interested parties.
> Comments
> should be submitted to the humanmarkup comment list at
> humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org.
>
> (OASIS comment lists no longer require subscription, but you will be
> required by the mail server to return a token to confirm your message.)
>
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