April 29, 2003
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Danny Ayers cites a couple readings for use in ThreadsML discussion (these would go along with the early Weinberger discussion, the first and second QuickTopics hosted discussions. Weinberger et al. cite an early RDF Model by Dornfest and Schwartz, as well as a precursor in Email Threading.

There's yet a bit to read here, as I try to get caught up on this and wrap my head around it. But I think it would be truly useful to have some standard way to describe threads. Ben's talk at ETCon helped revive a lot of interest in this, as has Marc Canter's inciting in the above QT Threads.

One of my LazyWeb requests in the BOF session was that I wanted any ThreadsML to be able to refer upwards in its tree - though this would only make sense at time of creation of the subordinate element. Further thoughts would be some sort of trackback-like notification engine so that parent threads can be aware of child element creation. And of course, cross system threading (so if one had a conversation that started in an interactive chat of some sort, one could then refer to the trouble-ticket opened regarding it, and then to the CVS changes that further address that fix).

More to think and write here.

Posted by esinclai at April 29, 2003 07:07 AM |
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Hi Eric,
I've got a few more related links knocking around, when I've got chance I'll round them up and put on the ThreadML Wiki, this page for now :

http://www.quicktopic.com/cgi-bin/thwiki.pl?ThreadsMLImplementations

There's a page for use cases too :

http://www.quicktopic.com/cgi-bin/thwiki.pl?UseCases

Hmm - the trouble ticket idea sparks a few thoughts...

Posted by: Danny Ayers on April 29, 2003 07:29 AM
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