SIOC profile for 'sioc-project.org' A SIOC profile describes the structure and contents of a community site (e.g., weblog) in a machine processable form. For more information refer to the <a href="http://rdfs.org/sioc">SIOC project page</a> FW: [uf-discuss] Proposal: hArgument Microformat FYI, sounds like it is related to SIOC+IBIS/RDF. J. -----Original Message----- From: microformats-discuss-bounces@microformats.org on behalf of Costello, Roger L. Sent: Sun 20/05/2007 22:37 To: microformats-discuss@microformats.org Subject: [uf-discuss] Proposal: hArgument Microformat Hi Folks, Michael Crichton says: "The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance." One of the keys to distinguishing information from disinformation is to have a clear understanding of the assumptions an author is making. Typically, it takes a great deal of effort to distill an author's assumptions. Bring clearly to light the assumptions being made would go a long way towards facilitating a web of trust. I propose an hArgument Microformat with two properties: hArgument assumption (repeatable): a statement of what the author assumes to be true, and upon which his/her conclusion follows. [If it can be demonstrated that the assumption is false, then the conclusion is invalid] conclusion (repeatable): a statement that derives from the assumption(s) Example: below is an example of an argument. The argument can be immediately discredited because the assumptions can be shown to be fallacious: Microformats are a disruptive technology Microformats are attempting to supplant XML documents with HTML and XHTML documents The main benefit of Microformats is that it allows graceful degradation Microformats go too far. It's almost better to use a more suited format in such cases The advantage of this is that there is no need to "guess" what are the author's assumptions. They are clearly identified. Use Cases: any web page that tries to convince you of something. The examples are endless. Comments? /Roger _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIOC-Dev" group. To post to this group, send email to sioc-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sioc-dev-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sioc-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- 2007-06-05T14:46:01+01:00 2007-06-05T14:46:01+01:00