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FWIW, The Human Markup Language (HuML) Effort that went into
hiatus last year (2006) for lack of participation was based on
Peircean Semiosis, in which we postulated a Semiote, e.g. a biological
human or artificial agent, as the atomic unit of cognitive
activity.
I have attached the Word version of the 'Committee Specification'
of the HuML primary base specification, which was not advanced further
for OASIS-wide approval for a number of reasons, not least of which is
that we were working on the revision detailed next. The primary base
was originally intended to be one of two foundational specifications,
a primary set of categories of basic terms and a secondary set of
categories for secondary languages, e.g. a language for human physical
characteristics which would collect anatomical, archeological, medical
and healthcare languages. The HuML primary and secondary bases were
organized as the initial set of categories on which more specific
topic-area secondary languages could be assembled. I use the word
assembled because it was never our intent to reinvent or rewrite any
existing human vocabulary or ontology or taxonomy.
Before we folded our OASIS tent we worked on a revision of the
primary base specification, or foundational language, which was
expressed as an RDF Schema and as an OWL ontology as well as an XML
Schema. I have attached those representations, too. It was an early
attempt to unify these representations, a key concept that is
beginning to be understood as a helpful if not necessary concomitant
of standards development.
The RDF Schema stood in a direct line of descent from the
Conceptual Reference Model of the International Council of Museums
(CIDOC CRM), due largely to the fact that we had decided to use the
CIDOC CRM definition of 'artifact,' as well as other term
definitions which are central to both the CRM and HuML. The
CIDOC CRM was not expressed in either an XML or OWL representation, so
its use was limited and limiting. We did not find a suitable OWL model
specification, and did not attempt to select a single upper ontology,
with or without an OWL representation, so attempted to create our own
confined to the limited set of terms in the primary base.
Among what in retrospect appears to be too-many other things,
HuML also wanted to unify areas like Contact Information (from the
OASIS Customer Information Quality Technical Committee--CIQ TC) and a
Master Patient Identifier (MPI) from the Healthcare Informatics domain
via the Nationwide Healthcare Information Network--NHIN--of
HHS).
Oddly enough, the only major corporation that ever paid us any
attention was Unisys, but the individual was not Jane Mazzagatti, so there's no connection I know of.
Just another curious coincidence.
Cheers,
Rex
At 8:59 PM -0500 11/11/07, Niemann.Brand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
Thanks for this and the book is available at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Peirce-Introduction-Continuum-Implemented/dp/0595441122 whose description says: The Triadic Continuum is the invention of Jane Mazzagatti, a mathematician and software engineer. Mazzagatti came upon the idea for this new computer data structure, which is based on the work of Charles Peirce, while working on a project for Unisys Corporation. This same structure has proven commercially valuable in the efficient way it stores and allows for the analysis of large datasets. However, while learning about the nature of the structure she discovered more far-reaching implications to areas other than computer science. Charles Peirce was fascinated with how the mind reasons and with all of the scientific and philosophical implications of the mechanisms of how the brain records experience, constructs memories, and accesses previously stored experience and knowledge. Mazzagatti believes that she has rediscovered the structure of the Triadic Continuum, which is the foundation of many of Peirce's key theories dealing with human reasoning and the logic of thought. In this book the author, who worked with Mazzagatti writing patents for the invention, explains how this structure is unlike any other computer data structure or type of Artificial Intelligence-but more importantly why this structure may very well be a model for human cognition. Brand -----ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: -----
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