From: Eugene Eric Kim <eekim@eekim.com>
To: ohs-dev <ohs-dev@bootstrap.org>
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, N. C a r r o l l wrote:
>
> > Spoke to Lee today, and he made an observation that
> > clarified my view of an OHS. He referred to the lower
[snip]
> I'll throw in another twist, which will be further explicated in my tech
> notes (to be posted in the next few days, hopefully). I think that the
> underlying structure for these global DKRs will be defined primarily by
> the link databases.
[snip]
Probably.
> associations, etc.) without forcing us to adopt some sort of universal
> document type (i.e. the so-called "I-file.").
I'm not wild about the idea of permanent I-files, if only because of
storage issues. And versioning problems. Well, we'll get there.
> If you believe this, I would also argue that the most important elements
> of the OHS are the link database and a metalanguage for defining document
> data models (such as SGML groves property sets).
I don't know about "most important" -- I'm a whole-system-
works-together fan -- but data structures are far more established
than knowledge handling, so it's reasonable that they can be
more concrete than the middle knowledge level.
Had a look at groves. It didn't make my day, but then SGML
rarely does.
N.
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