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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I thought I would forward this note from Vint Cerf. <o:p></o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The essay is at </span><a href="http://geer.tinho.net/geer.nsf.6i15.txt" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>http://geer.tinho.net/geer.nsf.6i15.txt</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> -=- Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Mike Kearney<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Huntsville, Alabama, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Vint Cerf [mailto:vint@google.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 15, 2016 3:46 PM<br><b>To:</b> Richard Whitt <whitt@google.com>; Mike Kearney <kearneysolutions@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> paradigm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>from an essay by Dan Geer, this definition of paradigm also applies to the OAIS notion of basic assumptions that are self-defining within a community so that the definitions of the metadata associated with data do not require further explanation:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><pre style='word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap'><span style='color:black'>But what is a "paradigm" and why do we want one? As Kuhn puts it,<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>"[Paradigms] are the source of the methods, the problem field, and<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>the standards of solution accepted by any mature scientific community<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>at any given time." Kuhn's book and the two decade long back and<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>forth between Kuhn and philosophers notwithstanding, the simplest<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>version is that a paradigm is all the things that a scientist can<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>assume that his or her colleagues will congenially understand about<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>their common work without explicitly explaining them or arguing<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>them from first principles again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>New postal address:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Google<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>1875 Explorer Street, 10th Floor<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Reston, VA 20190<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>