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A Semantic Web of assertion databases can easily be a superstitious or gamed system. How? Well, what does it let us do with citation databases that are opinions or points of view? <pointOfView>"...on this historical note, I would gently propose that XML started in May 1994 at CERN, when a breakout group debated where HTML might be headed, and in particular how to handle domains such as Maths and Chemistry."</pointOfView> <pointOfView>The founder of XML-Dev is the founder and moderator of comp-text-sgml.</pointOfView> Would facts enable us to assign analogical credibility to the statements above? <fact>Bill Tunnicliffe was the first to propose markup (late 1960s).</fact> <fact>XML is a subset of SGML developed some years after ISO 8879 (1986).</fact> <fact>Discussions and working examples of content-oriented markup predate MathML, CML, (See MIL-M-28001, 87269, and others)</fact> <fact>Discussions and examples of using content-oriented markup for hypertext predate the CERN meeting cited. See US Navy Work Package DTDs and others.</fact> It is hard to determine if XML started at the meeting cited but not hard to assign a low credibility factor to that being original thinking at the time. Influential? Can't say. No facts. One would have to give XML a separate historical context which would distort history. <fact>CTS predates XML-Dev.</fact> <fact>CTS and XML-Dev have markup topics.</fact> <fact>The origin of most early XML-Dev topics are comp-text-sgml topics.</fact> It isn't hard to make a case even with interpretation that Peter and Henry did host XML-Dev originally. Yet if the topics continued the discussions on CTS, what exactly did they found? While we may be able to determine the truth of a given fact, how we reason with that, what we conclude, can vary by the goal of the interpretation. We say "let a thousand flowers bloom" but when that becomes inconvenient, someone will be pruning the fact base. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
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