In a message dated 7/17/00 6:27:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Knowledge of this arcana usually comes the hard way: from experience. I
> suppose your suggestion of a repository like xml.org keeping track of
> all these lists isn't too bad - for the more common code lists (like
> Unit of Measure, or country or currency codes) people are likely to
> need, a first place to look them up would be nice. As new core
> components are built, additional relevant code lists will be encountered
> in the discovery process, and these too can be added to the "List o'
> Lists."
Bill,
"list of lists" has been and continues to be "managed" by the Internet and
especially it's newsgroups for a great long time now, resulting in list
servers that handle/recurse list servers, major domos etc.. So many goooood
people have done such good work, IMHO, it isn't likely to be "bested" nor
ought be attempted as a new inception.
Point being, that good work, (what do we do in the software biz? we garner
our boon by outputing a) copy.
Perhaps a good "senior research", especially in "HISTORY; INFORMATION
SCIENCE; INTERNET; MAILERS" could encapsulate the "methods" that have risen
to the top and then rush to publication in time for it to be incorporated in
some "XML/EDI-Global-2000"/whatever. (Perhaps it should be "INFORMATION
SCIENCE; STANDARDIZATION; REUSE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; HISTORY" or something").
A "Grand Central" repository of repositories, where to look first, second and
third, may emerge, via "bot" concepts.
Regards,
Jim Cunningham
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