Balisage 2008 Index
Title: A Hybrid Parallel Processing for XML Parsing and Schema Validation
Contributors
Yu Wu (Intel Corporation)
Qi Zhang (Intel Corporation)
Zhiqiang Yu (Intel Corporation)
Jianhui Li (Intel Corporation)
Summary excerpt: XML is playing crucial roles in web services, databases, and document representing and processing. … [more]
Title: A non-backwards-compatible update: a difficult decision
Contributors
Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Journal/Book Tag Sets have been widely adopted by … [more]
Title: An Onion of Documents and Metadata
Contributors
D. Matthew Kelleher
Albert J. Klein
James David Mason
Summary excerpt: When a product cannot be tested as a finished unit, its warranty, as it were, depends on extensive … [more]
Title: A Simple API for XCONCUR
Contributors
Oliver Schonefeld (University of Tübingen)
Summary excerpt: Programmers can basically choose from two different types APIs when working with XML documents. On … [more]
Title: Axioms of Versioning
Contributors
Marc de Graauw (Independent)
Summary excerpt: The problems of language versioning can be better understood with the help of some formal axioms … [more]
Title: Beyond the Semantic Web: the Semantic Space
Contributors
Pierre Lévy (University of Ottawa )
Summary excerpt: Today, the sharing of semantics remains a conundrum. Semantics can be shared within a universe of … [more]
Title: But wait, there’s more!
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (World Wide Web Consortium / MIT)
Summary excerpt: XML has been widely adopted and forms part of the infrastructure of most modern information … [more]
Title: Cool versus useful
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: True versus Useful, or True versus Likely-to-be-useful, are tradeoffs we find ourselves making in … [more]
Title: Dirty laundry: Committee disasters, what happened, what we learned
Contributors
Jon Bosak (Sun Microsystems)
Mavis Cournane (Cognitran)
Patrick Durusau
James David Mason (Y-12 National Security Complex)
David Orchard
Lauren Wood (Sun)
Summary excerpt: Markup standards and projects are created, managed, and sometimes destroyed through group process. … [more]
Title: Forward compatibility using XML transform-as-needed (XTAN)
Contributors
Sandro Hawke (W3C)
Summary excerpt: It is often desirable to design vocabularies for forward compatibility, that is, to design them in … [more]
Title: Freedom to Constrain
Contributors
Syd Bauman (Brown University Women Writers Project)
Summary excerpt: Where should attribute constraints live? In an external schema? In the document’s own metadata? In … [more]
Title: Graph characterization of overlap-only TexMECS and other overlapping markup formalisms
Contributors
Yves Marcoux (Université de Montréal, Canada) (University of Bergen, Norway)
Summary excerpt: We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for a graph to correspond to the structure of an … [more]
Title: Hypertext Links and Relationships in XML Databases
Contributors
Anne Brüggemann-Klein (Technische Universität München)
Lorenz Singer (Technische Universität München)
Summary excerpt: Hypertext links are, for semistructured data and narrative documents in XML databases, a fitting … [more]
Title: Informal Ontology Design
Contributors
Murray Altheim (Ceryle.org)
Summary excerpt: Wiki software has historically provided little support for any form of organizational structure. … [more]
Title: Linking Page Images to Transcriptions with SVG
Contributors
Hugh A. Cayless (CDLA, UNC Chapel Hill Library)
Summary excerpt: This paper will present the results of ongoing experimentation with the linking of manuscript … [more]
Title: Managing multiple vocabularies across a global enterprise
Contributors
Laurel Shifrin (LexisNexis)
Summary excerpt: Organizations share vocabularies across disparate user groups and data to maximize the value of … [more]
Title: Markup Discontinued
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (World Wide Web Consoritum / MIT)
Claus Huitfeldt (Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen)
Summary excerpt: That the textual phenomena of interest for markup are not always hierarchically arranged is well … [more]
Title: Office Suite Markup: Is it worthwhile?
Contributors
Patrick Durusau
Summary excerpt: There is a lot of smoke but is there any fire? Microsoft, Sun, IBM, Oracle, Google, Redhat and … [more]
Title: Optimized Cartesian product: A hybrid approach to derivation-chain checking in XSD 1.1
Contributors
Maurizio Casimirri (Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna)
Paolo Marinelli (Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna)
Fabio Vitali (Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna)
Summary excerpt: As XPath predicates are involved, XSD 1.1 conditional declarations make difficult the problem of … [more]
Title: Parser Possibilities: Why Write A Markup Parser
Contributors
Norman Earl Smith (Science Applications International Corp.)
Summary excerpt: In the early days of XML, there seemed to be a new XML parser just about every week. This was in … [more]
Title: Properties of schema mashups: dynamicity, semantic, mixins, hyperschemas
Contributors
Philippe Poulard (INRIA)
Summary excerpt: W3C XML Schemas specifications were published in 2001, but a large community still uses DTDs. … [more]
Title: Putting it all in context
Contributors
Andrew Townley
Sanida Omerovic (Pensive S.A., Belgium)
Peter F. Brown (Pensive S.A., Belgium)
Summary excerpt: Two major concerns in creating large-scale Topic Maps applications are: first, the role and capture … [more]
Title: Reconsidering Conventional Markup for Knowledge Representation
Contributors
David Dubin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh)
Summary excerpt: The main attraction of semantic web technologies such as RDF and OWL over conventional markup is … [more]
Title: REST Oriented Architectures (ROA): Taking a resourceful approach to web data
Contributors
Kurt Cagle (O'Reilly Networks)
Summary excerpt: Resource Oriented Architectures use the fundamental characteristics of the web itself in order to … [more]
Title: Secure Publishing using Schema-level Role-based Access Control Policies for Fragments of XML Documents
Contributors
Tomasz Müldner (Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University)
Robin McNeill (Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University)
Jan Krzysztof Miziołek ( Computing Services Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition in Poland and East-Central Europe, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland )
Summary excerpt: Popularity of social networks is growing rapidly and secure publishing is an important … [more]
Title: SGF - An integrated model for multiple annotations and its application in a linguistic domain
Contributors
Maik Stührenberg
Daniela Goecke
Summary excerpt: Seamless integration of various, often heterogeneous linguistic resources (in terms of their output … [more]
Title: State of the art on streaming
Contributors
Mohamed Zergaoui (Innovimax)
Summary excerpt: It's now 10 years that XML is out and is now mainstream. Eventually, XML is perceived for its value … [more]
Title: Structural Metadata and the Social Limitation of Interoperability: A Sociotechnical View of XML and Digital Library Standards Development
Contributors
Jerome McDonough (Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Summary excerpt: The past decade has seen the rise of both the XML standard and a variety of XML-based structural … [more]
Title: Summary and Wrap-Up
Contributors
David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh)
Summary excerpt: There will be a lot of material presented at the Versioning Symposium: prepared presentations … [more]
Title: Text Retrieval for XML-Encoded Corpora: A Lexical Approach
Contributors
Liam R. E. Quin (W3C)
Summary excerpt: This paper describes some modifications done to an open source text retrieval package to make it … [more]
Title: The Apache Qpid XML Exchange
Contributors
Jonathan Robie (Red Hat)
Summary excerpt: XML is widely used for messaging applications. Message-oriented Middleware (MOM) is a natural fit … [more]
Title: This paper has no version: Versioning as a social construct
Contributors
Peter F. Brown (Pensive)
Summary excerpt: To declare that something "is" or "has" a "version" is to imply that there is some "original" or … [more]
Title: Topic maps in near-real time
Contributors
Sam Hunting
Summary excerpt: A new topic map module for the Drupal open-source content management system now supports the … [more]
Title: Translation between RDF and Topic Maps: Divide and Translate
Contributors
Christo Dichev (Winston-Salem State University)
Darina Dicheva (Winston-Salem State University)
Boriana Ditcheva (Winston-Salem State University)
Mike Moran (Winston-Salem State University)
Summary excerpt: This paper addresses the issue of sharing and integrating data across RDF and Topic Map … [more]
Title: Using Atom Categorization to Build Dynamic Applications
Contributors
R. Alexander Milowski (Appolux, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Atom feeds provide the ability to categorize both the feed and its entries. This categorization … [more]
Title: Versioning fundamentals
Contributors
David Orchard
Summary excerpt: Active XML vocabularies change over time, undergoing the inevitable evolution called versioning. … [more]
Title: Versions in UBL
Contributors
G. Ken Holman (Crane Softwrights Ltd.)
Summary excerpt: There are many aspects of "different versions" when considering the artefacts defined for the OASIS … [more]
Title: XML: It was not televised after all ...
Contributors
Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems)
Summary excerpt: Few may remember that XML was launched with an explicit technical and social agenda centered on the … [more]
Title: xmlsh - a command language (shell) based on the philosophy of the Unix Shells, designed for XML
Contributors
David A. Lee (Epocrates)
Summary excerpt: xmlsh, an Open Source project, is a command language (shell) modeled after the philosophy of … [more]