Re: Newcomb number news

Steve,

Am 07.12.2010 um 11:08 schrieb Steve Pepper:

> * Robert Cerny
> |
> | There is a new table showing the newcomb numbers:
> | http://www.topincs.com/newcombnumber/.table?id=423
>
> I'm not yet convinced that I want to be part of this exercise.
>
> Quite apart from anything else, Michel Biezunski is not on the list.
>
> He probably introduced more people to Topic Maps than almost anyone  
> else, and
> without his persistence in the late '90s, Topic Maps would have  
> died in the cradle.
>
> Furthermore, the criteria for having introduced someone to Topic  
> Maps are very
> unclear. At the very least, please add a Comment occurrence to the  
> topic type
> Person, so that we can be a little more precise in how we record  
> our history.

Once you access the form field, you will get an explanation to the  
left. Currently it reads:

"The person that sold you the idea of Topic Maps through conversation  
or writing. May be more than one."

If you have a better wording, let me know. If you need more precision  
we need a more elaborate TMCL schema to record information. The idea  
of this one is to keep it simple. The schema was modeled in Topincs  
in an Open-Space-Session of TMRA 2010. Not much time.

> | We could compute a lot of numbers, if we would know:
> |
> | a. Who introduced Steve Pepper to Topic Maps?
> | <http://www.topincs.com/newcombnumber/.form?tt=id:281&i=300>
>
> Get Michel onto the list, give me the occurrence type I ask for,  
> and all shall be
> revealed :)

Good. Michel is in there and you are "introduced by" him. So now we  
need to know who introduced Topic Maps to Michel Biezunski. Was it  
Steve Newcomb? Or was it the other way round? Or should it rather be  
called the Newcomb-Biezunnski-Number?

Robert