Abstract
This presentation describes a journey of replacing WordPerfect with prodoc.dtd, a semantic authoring doctype; and how prodoc evolved to enable computer-assisted sense making, based on markup that formalizes knowledge flow analysis and modeling semantics.
The paper also describes some of the challenges associated with multi-perspective decision making and techniques for negotiating and formalizing dynamic, natural-system ontologies. Lessons learned from WordNet and SUMO integrations are summarized.
The paper concludes by suggesting that building editors and bots that use author-authored markup to digitize and amplify logic systems could, in many organizational settings, contribute to more-intelligent value optimizations and better long-term performance.
Table of Contents
@class — Authored class styles<awkbuddy/>
— An interactive development environment block<bbody/>, <branches/>, <branch/>
— Hierarchical tables<colortest/>
— Automating accessible color negotiation pipelines<h/>
— Depth-based headings because big headings are ugly<kfam/>
— An element and generalized design language to make sense of knowledge flows from multiple perspectives<music/> — Rationalizing chord/ lyric pairings<vcanvas/>
— Visualizing and comparing sets of value optimizations