Fwd: Bias & History, Near & Far

Greetings Owen, thanks for off list reply which I relay below
and HNY to all of you
*btw- Is anyone else experiencing posts from this mailing list going into
spam folder?*
*Please check and unspam !!!*
Thanks for commenting on the article and good points about issues not yet
identified, surely work to be done.
Regarding  accomplishments for this CG, well,
I d say I d like to continue bringing up key issues pertaining to KR and AI
on this public mailing ilst many of these issues which are systematically
and deliberately ignored or plagiarized by the academic community

Exposing the systemic dysfunction of academia and industry in this respect,
by means of specifications of simply by rocking the boat from time to time
with a discussion and a laugh short I dont think we have the resource to
start an AI KR cartoon strip.

Next immediate goals remain enhancing member participation and commitment
to open standards in AI KR

At the online TPAC21 meeting there were 9 participants, none of whom were
members at the time.

I take this opportunity to welcome the CG members who joined recently and
look forward to input and suggestions for 2022

PDM

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Owen Ambur <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 10:36 AM
Subject: Bias & History, Near & Far
To: <paoladimaio10@googlemail.com>
Cc: Brandt Redd <brandt@redd.org>, Scott Yates <
scott@certifiedcontentcoalition.org>, Carl Mattocks <carlmattocks@gmail.com>,
Michael Sessa <michael.sessa@pesc.org>, Larry Fruth <lfruth@a4l.org>


Happy new year, Paola.  We were with family over the holidays and just
returned home this week, whereupon I found that my E-mail client is still
routing to my junk folder messages like yours from the W3C listservs.

Having scanned the article you cite, I've taken particular note of the
concluding sentence: "History classes must begin to use strategies that
identify and challenge biases found in textbooks, and develop ethical
frameworks based on justice and equality that students and teachers can use
to interpret and evaluate American history."

As you may know, I'm a bit impatient with entreaties referencing fuzzy
concepts like "strategies" and "frameworks" (as well as "democracy") that
fail to propose model performance plans, upon which interested stakeholders
might take action.  If you are aware of any actual plan(s) to do as
Romanowski suggests, I may wish to render it(them) in StratML format.

In the meantime, I'm copying Brandt in the event there may be any education
standards relevant to this issue and I'm copying Scott since it is unlikely
that historical reports can be credible if contemporaneous records are
not.  While the victors may (or may not) write history
<https://historyofyesterday.com/is-history-written-by-the-victors-here-are-5-examples-of-losers-writing-history-815b4f28e37c>,
they most certainly do not have a monopoly on the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth.

The about statements for the initiatives the CredWeb CG plans to evaluate
are available in StratML format at
https://stratml.us/drybridge/index.htm#CWCG

I wonder if, for example, Overtone.ai's logic might be applied to
historical texts.  They say
<https://stratml.us/carmel/iso/OVRTNwStyle.xml#values_>, "Ultimately, this
is a journey that goes way, way beyond text based news content. This is
about the way in which human beings communicate – about any topic, at any
length, using any medium, and with anybody."

The education standards identified by Data Standards United work group that
Brandt chairs are documented in StratML format at
https://stratml.us/drybridge/index.htm#DSU2  Based upon a word-find search
of the StratML rendition of the directory
<https://stratml.us/carmel/iso/DLSwStyle.xml>, it appears that none of them
addresses the issues of "history" or "bias" or "knowledge" per se.  To me,
that seems to be an opportunity rather than a problem.

All the best you.  Looking forward to learning what we might be able to
accomplish together this year.

Owen


On 12/25/2021 6:24 AM, Paola Di Maio wrote:

Hello AI KR CG folks, Ontologers and SW people from all walks of life

I have been thinking of some meaningful wishes to send out in relation to
AI KR in the context of the Winter festivities.The closes relevant topic
that comes to mind is

Knowledge Misrepresentation in History
https://www.socialstudies.org/sites/default/files/publications/se/6003/600310.html

and
Bias in Historical Description, Interpretation, and Explanation
Debates among historians show that they expect descriptions of past people
and events, interpretations of historical subjects, and genetic
explanations of historical changes to be fair and not misleading


https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Bias-in-Historical-Description%2C-Interpretation%2C-and-Mccullagh/5e9ef86edd2c7b955606ba45fdf981feef713b14

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When designing intelligent systems, we use knowledge  from various
repositories
and databases, the quality and validity of which is not always questioned,
especially
in the case of long term historical perspectives which form the basis for
many widely held views.

Today, as we celebrate the important and sometimes debated (problematic
even as described by some!!!) historical  events surrounding  the birth of
JC, we should remember misrepresentation in history, and how
misrepresentation is deliberately designed to manipulate history
The articles above are mere pointers to the topic  not endorsed nor
exhaustive, and intended as mere reading recommendations

Let Bias and misrepresentation not spoil the festivities, but  let's remain
aware that history does not always warrant celebration and let's remind
ourselves, what is there really, to celebrate hoping that everyone gets at
least some.

Happy and meaningful winter holidays!!

In wisdom
Paola DM
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