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Subject: Re: [huml] Readiness for Native Dancer Collaboration
Thanks for the update, James. The paragraph is fine with me, as I am sure it will be for the rest of the TC. I particularly like narrowing down the focus for HumanML to pattern recognition. Ciao, Rex At 10:03 AM -0600 1/30/03, James Landrum wrote: >Rex et al, > >For the moment, until we are awarded NIH grant funding for the >Native Dancer project, there will not be too much for anyone to do >on the proposed collaboration. We are submitting the Native Dancer >grant proposal to NIH this Friday (January 31), and it may be six >months before we hear back on success. In the meantime, we can have >discussions on the issues about the real (and future potential) >roles and applications of Human Markup Language (HumanML) within >Native Dancer (and through further discussion, perhaps other ATL >projects as well, for example: 3D modeling and animation of fossil >hominid skeletal remains and endocranial casts). Importantly, there >is no immediate rush, beyond feedback on the paragraph we are >including oin the NIH proposal (see below). > >To update the HumanML TC, at this time we have included one short >paragraph on HumanML and Humarkup Technical Commitee (HumanML TC) in >the NIH grant proposal, and that is in conjunction with the proposed >consultant work that Rob Nixon and Quantum Digital Arts (QDA) will >undertake in the Native Dancer project. I include below the >relevant draft paragraph from the NIH proposal. This is still a >draft- we have until tomorrow to finalize and submit it- if anyone >has specific comments or suggestions for revision of this paragraph >please reply to me directly. Note that we have not mentioned >HumanMarkup.Org in this paragraph- I would like to hear back ASAP >(Today at latest) from either Ranjeeth, Joe, Rex, or Rob on approval >for specific inclusion of HumanMarkup.Org in the paragraph. > >Begin paragraph: (Lisa Brandt: Note the changes, e.g., reinsertion of OASIS) >In conjunction with the work undertaken by QDA, we will work with >the OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured >Information Standards) Human Markup Language (HumanML) Technical >Committee (TC) to develop appropriate extensible markup language >(XML) tools for use in Native Dancer. HumanML and associated >specifications contain sets of modules that frame and embed >contextual human characteristics including physical, cultural, >social, kinesic, psychological, and intentional features within >conveyed information (HumanML TC 2003). We will apply HumanML to >facilitate effective pattern recognition of dance sequences to >enable better judging of participant avatars in dance competitions. >Further information on HumanML is available at >http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/humanmarkup/. (Team member >James Landrum and Rob Nixon, of QDA, are members of the HumanML >Technical Committee.) >End paragraph. > > >Rex Brooks wrote: > >>Hi All, >> >>We finished up the four-day face-to-face Web Services for Remote >>Portlets and Interactive Applications a day early, so I am >>available to day to begin reconnecting with this task. So if we >>need to arrange some phone calls, or information exchanges, I am >>available. I have the remainder of a fairly virulent cold, but I'm >>on the mend, and I would very much like to get this project >>reintegrated with my work schedule heading into this weekend and >>next week. >> >>Ciao, >>Rex > > >-- >From the Desk of James E. Landrum III >Database Manager >Archaeology Technologies Laboratory (ATL; http://atl.ndsu.edu) >Digital Archive Network for Anthropology (DANA; http://atl.ndsu.edu/archive) >North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58105 >Ph: 701-231-7115 (my desk) and ATL 701-231-6434 >FAX: 701-231-1047 >email: james.landrum@ndsu.nodak.edu -- Rex Brooks Starbourne Communications Design 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA 94702 *510-849-2309 http://www.starbourne.com * rexb@starbourne.com
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