Balisage 2010 Index
Title: A brief history of markup of social science data: from punched cards to "the life cycle" approach
Contributors
Laine Ruus (Data Library Service, University of Toronto)
Summary excerpt: Traditional quantitative social science data analysis requires three ingredients: the raw data … [more]
Title: A formal approach to XML semantics: implications for archive standards
Contributors
Andrew Dombrowski (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago )
Quinn Dombrowski (University of Chicago)
Summary excerpt: Previous literature characterizing XML semantics (Sperberg-McQueen et al. 2000, Renear et al. 2002, … [more]
Title: A Streaming XSLT Processor
Contributors
Michael Kay (Saxonica Limited)
Summary excerpt: Existing XSLT implementations build a tree representation of the source document in memory, and are … [more]
Title: Automatic upconversion using XSLT 2.0 and XProc: A real world example
Contributors
Stefanie Haupt
Maik Stührenberg
Summary excerpt: All too much of the data on the Web appears in unstructured presentation-centric formatting that … [more]
Title: A Virtualization-Based Retrieval and Update API for XML-Encoded Corpora
Contributors
Cyril Briquet (McMaster University) (ATILF (CNRS & Nancy-Université) )
Pascale Renders (University of Liège) (ATILF (CNRS & Nancy-Université) )
Etienne Petitjean (ATILF (CNRS & Nancy-Université) )
Summary excerpt: Providing support for flexible automated tagging of text-oriented XML documents (i.e. text with … [more]
Title: Beyond Eighteen Wheels
Contributors
Liam R. E. Quin (The World Wide Web Consortium)
Summary excerpt: When documents are stored for any significant length of time, or when they are used, whether … [more]
Title: Discourse situations and markup interoperability
Contributors
Karen Wickett (Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign )
Summary excerpt: Interoperability is often considered a key issue for information systems, but there are many … [more]
Title: DITA or Not?
Contributors
Lynne A. Price (Text Structure Consulting)
Summary excerpt: Use of DITA has become so pervasive that some users assume that anyone who inquires about moving to … [more]
Title: Extension of the type/token distinction to document structure
Contributors
Claus Huitfeldt (Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen)
Yves Marcoux (Université de Montréal)
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies)
Summary excerpt: The type/token distinction introduced by C. S. Peirce and taken up by many others is familiar when … [more]
Title: Freestyle Markup Language
Contributors
Denis Pondorf (Hamburg, Germany)
Andreas Witt (Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany)
Summary excerpt: This paper provides a new generation of a markup language by introducing the Freestyle Markup … [more]
Title: Grammar-driven Markup Generation
Contributors
Mario Blažević (Stilo International plc.)
Summary excerpt: This paper defines the concept of grammar-driven normalization of incomplete instances, sketches … [more]
Title: Greasing the Wheels: Overcoming User Resistance to XML
Contributors
Betty Harvey (Electronic Commerce Connection)
David Lee (Epocrates)
Steven Newcomb (Coolheads Consulting)
Kenneth Sall
Priscilla Walmsley (Datypic)
Summary excerpt: While Balisage may be filled with people who are not only comfortable working in XML, many of us … [more]
Title: gXML, a New Approach to Cultivating XML Trees in Java
Contributors
Amelia A. Lewis (TIBCO Software Inc.)
Eric E. Johnson (TIBCO Software Inc.)
Summary excerpt: A number of issues facing the use of XML tree models in Java are enumerated: multiplicity … [more]
Title: IPSA RE: A New Model of Data/Document Management, Defined by Identity, Provenance, Structure, Aptitude, Revision and Events
Contributors
Walter E. Perry (Fiduciary Automation)
Summary excerpt: In the world of private (not publicly traded) investment fund dealing a very substantial portion of … [more]
Title: I say XSLT, you say XQuery: let's call the whole thing off
Contributors
David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh)
Summary excerpt: XSLT and XQuery can both be used for extracting information from XML resources and transforming it … [more]
Title: Java Integration of XQuery - an Information Unit-Oriented Approach
Contributors
Hans-Jürgen Rennau (bits - Büro für Informations-Technologie und Software GmbH)
Summary excerpt: An infrastructure for integrating XQuery into Java systems is described. The infrastructure … [more]
Title: Managing semantics in XML vocabularies: an experience in the legal and legislative domain
Contributors
Gioele Barabucci (Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
Luca Cervone (CIRSFID, University of Bologna)
Angelo Di Iorio (Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
Monica Palmirani (CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
Silvio Peroni (Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
Fabio Vitali (Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
Summary excerpt: Akoma Ntoso is an XML vocabulary for legal and legislative documents sponsored by the United … [more]
Title: Metadata for Long Term Preservation of Product Data
Contributors
Joshua Lubell (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Summary excerpt: Product data can be usefully defined as structured information about objects that are produced by … [more]
Title: Multi-channel eBook production as a function of diverse target device capabilities
Contributors
Eric Freese (Aptara)
Summary excerpt: Publishers have a history of managing data for the long-term. In the past this meant warehouses of … [more]
Title: Multi-structured documents and the emergence of annotations vocabularies
Contributors
Pierre-Édouard Portier (Université de Lyon, CNRS, INSA-Lyon, LIRIS, UMR5205, F-69621)
Sylvie Calabretto (Université de Lyon, CNRS, INSA-Lyon, LIRIS, UMR5205, F-69621)
Summary excerpt: The construction of multi-structured documents often implies the definition of annotations … [more]
Title: On Implementing string-range() for TEI
Contributors
Hugh A. Cayless (NYU)
Adam Soroka (UVA)
Summary excerpt: The Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines specify a number of pointer schemes for use in implementing … [more]
Title: Platform Independence 2010 - Helping Documents Fly Well in Emerging Architectures
Contributors
Ann Wrightson (Informing Healthcare (NHS Wales))
Summary excerpt: Parallel processing and memory bottlenecks dominate current platform architecture conversations. … [more]
Title: Portico: A Case Study in the Use of XML for the Long-Term Preservation of Digital Artifacts
Contributors
Sheila Morrissey (ITHAKA)
John Meyer (ITHAKA)
Sushil Bhattarai (ITHAKA)
Sachin Kurdikar (ITHAKA)
Jie Ling (ITHAKA)
Matthew Stoeffler (ITHAKA)
Umadevi Thanneeru (ITHAKA)
Summary excerpt: In the problem space of long-term preservation of digital objects, the disciplined use of XML … [more]
Title: Processing Arbitrarily Large XML using a Persistent DOM
Contributors
Martin Probst
Summary excerpt: As the adoption of XML reaches more and more application domains, data sizes increase, and … [more]
Title: Refining the Taxonomy of XML Schema Languages. A new Approach for Categorizing XML Schema Languages in Terms of Processing Complexity
Contributors
Maik Stührenberg
Christian Wurm
Summary excerpt: This paper presents a refined taxonomy of XML schema languages based on the work by Murata et al. … [more]
Title: Report from the Field: PubMed Central, an XML-based Archive of Life Sciences Journal Articles
Contributors
Jeff Beck (National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Heath (NIH) )
Summary excerpt: PubMed Central (PMC) is an XML-based archive of life sciences journal literature at the U.S. … [more]
Title: Reverse Modeling for Domain-Driven Engineering of Publishing Technology
Contributors
Anne Brüggemann-Klein (Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München)
Tamer Demirel (Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität Münchenn)
Dennis Pagano (Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München)
Andreas Tai (Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München)
Summary excerpt: We report in this paper on a technique that we call reverse modeling. Reverse modeling starts with … [more]
Title: Schema Component Paths for Schema Analysis
Contributors
Mary Holstege (Mark Logic Corporation)
Summary excerpt: Schema component paths define an XPath-like syntax for describing and navigating W3C XML Schema … [more]
Title: Scripting Documents with XQuery: Virtual Documents in TNTBase
Contributors
Vyacheslav Zholudev (Jacobs University Bremen)
Michael Kohlhase (Jacobs University Bremen)
Summary excerpt: This paper introduces the concept of Virtual Documents and its prototypical realization in our … [more]
Title: Stand-alone Encoding of Document History
Contributors
Jean-Yves Vion-Dury (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
Summary excerpt: This paper describes an approach to encapsulate together an XML document and its history (i.e. the … [more]
Title: Stone soup
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (World Wide Web Consoritum / MIT)
Summary excerpt: Reflections on making the best of unpromising … [more]
Title: Sustainability of Linguistic Resources Revisited
Contributors
Georg Rehm (DFKI)
Oliver Schonefeld (Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim)
Thorsten Trippel (Tübingen University)
Andreas Witt (Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim)
Summary excerpt: Data providers, users, and funders alike want and need sustainability of language resources (e.g. … [more]
Title: The EXPath Packaging System
Contributors
Florent Georges (H2O Consulting)
Summary excerpt: This paper introduces the EXPath Packaging System. It describes the problems addressed by … [more]
Title: The high cost of risk aversion
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Avoiding risk is not always the way to minimize … [more]
Title: There are No Documents
Contributors
Allen H. Renear (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Karen M. Wickett (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Summary excerpt: Last year at Balisage (2009) we considered the claim that documents cannot be modified. Our … [more]
Title: The sustainability of the scholarly edition in a digital world
Contributors
Cathy Moran Hajo (New York University)
Summary excerpt: Scholarly editions must be used for generations; by nature they require a stable long-term … [more]
Title: Where XForms Meets the Glass
Contributors
Charlie Wiecha (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY)
Rahul Akolkar (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY)
Andrew Spyker (IBM Software Group, Research Triangle Park, NC)
Summary excerpt: We have observed two prevalent design paradigms for web applications: those who start from an … [more]
Title: Why TEI stand-off annotation doesn't quite work
Contributors
Piotr Bański (Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw)
Summary excerpt: The present submission focuses on the concept of stand-off annotation as it is implemented in the … [more]
Title: XHTML Dialects: Interchange over domain vocabularies through upward expansion
Contributors
Erik Hennum
Summary excerpt: The XML community exhibits a persistent tension between the value of sharing (motivating standards) … [more]
Title: XML Essence Testing
Contributors
Abraham Becker (National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Heath (NIH) )
Jeff Beck (National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Heath (NIH) )
Summary excerpt: SYNOPSIS:PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health free digital archive … [more]
Title: XML Pipeline Processing in the Browser
Contributors
Vojtěch Toman (EMC Corporation)
Summary excerpt: With the growing interest in end-to-end XML web application development models, many web … [more]
Title: XQuery Design Patterns
Contributors
William Candillon (28msec Inc.)
Matthias Brantner (28msec Inc.)
Dennis Knochenwefel (28msec Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Design patterns are widely used inside the object-oriented community. They are proven mature and … [more]