Balisage 2012 Index
Title: ACS Publications — Ensuring XML Quality
Contributors
Tamara Stoker (American Chemical Society)
Keith Rose (American Chemical Society)
Summary excerpt: The benefits of using XML in publishing are widely known but those benefits are more difficult to … [more]
Title: A standards-related web-based information system
Contributors
Maik Stührenberg (Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) Mannheim) (Universität Bielefeld)
Oliver Schonefeld (Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) Mannheim)
Andreas Witt (Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) Mannheim)
Summary excerpt: This late breaking proposal introduces the prototype of a web-based information system dealing with … [more]
Title: Beyond Well-Formed and Valid
Contributors
Sheila M. Morrissey (ITHAKA)
John Meyer (ITHAKA)
Sushil Bhattarai (ITHAKA)
Gautham Kalwala
Sachin Kurdikar (ITHAKA)
Jie Ling (ITHAKA)
Matt Stoeffler (ITHAKA)
Umadevi Thanneeru (ITHAKA)
Summary excerpt: One of the consequences of the rapid development and dissemination of the ecosystem of XML … [more]
Title: Case study: Quality assurance and quality control techniques in an XML data conversion project
Contributors
Charlie Halpern-Hamu (Tata Consultancy Services)
Summary excerpt: A wide variety of techniques have been used in an XML data conversion project. Emphasis on Quality … [more]
Title: Characterizing ill-formed XML on the web
Contributors
Liam R. E. Quin (THe World Wide Web Consortium (W3C))
Summary excerpt: This paper builds on the work of Steven Grijzenhout to analyze the Amsterdam XML Corpus in more … [more]
Title: CodeUp: Marking up Programming Languages and the winding road to an XML Syntax.
Contributors
David Lee (MarkLogic, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Text markup has a rich history and mature tools and techniques. Programming languages however are … [more]
Title: Contemporary transformation of ancient documents for recording and retrieving maximum information: when one form of markup is not enough
Contributors
Anna Jordanous (Centre for e-Research, King’s College London, UK)
Alan Stanley (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
Charlotte Tupman (Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, UK)
Summary excerpt: This paper considers what we can gain from enhancing TEI-encoded texts with RDF. We consider the … [more]
Title: Developing Low-Cost Functional Class 3 IETM
Contributors
Betty Harvey (Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: This paper will describe an approach that was taken by Cobham Mission Systems Division in Orchard … [more]
Title: Documents as Timed Abstract Objects
Contributors
Claus Huitfeldt (Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Norway)
Fabio Vitali (Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy )
Silvio Peroni (Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy )
Summary excerpt: At Balisage 2009 and 2010 Renear and Wickett discussed problems in reconciling the view that … [more]
Title: Encoding Transparency: Literate Programming and Test Generation for Scientific Function Libraries
Contributors
Mark D. Flood (Office of Financial Research)
Matthew McCormick (Office of Financial Research)
Nathan Palmer (Office of Financial Research)
Summary excerpt: We present a variation on literate programming (see Knuth: 1984, 1992) targeting multiple … [more]
Title: Exploring the Unknown
Contributors
Micah Dubinko (MarkLogic)
Summary excerpt: Large collections of data are getting published and used more frequently, even by … [more]
Title: Extending XML with SHORTREFs specified in RELAX NG
Contributors
Mario Blažević (Stilo International plc.)
Summary excerpt: We present a novel method for specifying concrete syntax, based on and compatible with the RELAX NG … [more]
Title: Finally — an XML Markup Solution for Design-Based Publishers: Introducing the PRISM Source Vocabulary
Contributors
Dianne Kennedy (IDEAlliance)
Summary excerpt: In the late 1980's, when computer technologies began to find application in publishing, the … [more]
Title: Fleshing the XDM chimera
Contributors
Eric van der Vlist (Dyomedea)
Summary excerpt: The XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.0 (XDM) is the kernel of the XML ecosystem. XDM had been extended … [more]
Title: From XML to UDL: a unified document language, supporting multiple markup languages
Contributors
Hans-Jürgen Rennau (Traveltainment GmbH)
Summary excerpt: A proposal is made how to extend the XML node model in order to be compatible with JSON markup as … [more]
Title: Leveraging XML Technology for Web Applications
Contributors
Anne Brüggemann-Klein (Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München)
Jose Tomas Robles Hahn (Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München)
Marouane Sayih (Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München)
Summary excerpt: As eBooks evolve into interactive applications, our vision at Electronic Publishing Group (EPT) is … [more]
Title: Literate Programming: A Case Study and Observations
Contributors
Sam Wilmott
Summary excerpt: A newly revived interest in literate programming means that we need to look at what's been done in … [more]
Title: Luminescent: parsing LMNL by XSLT upconversion
Contributors
Wendell Piez (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Among attempts to deal with the overlap problem, LMNL (Layered Markup and Annotation Language) has … [more]
Title: Meta-stylesheets: Exploring the Provenance of XSL Transformations
Contributors
Ashley Clark
Summary excerpt: When documents are transformed with XSLT, what methods can be used to understand and record those … [more]
Title: MicroXML: Who, What, Where, When, Why
Contributors
John Cowan (LexisNexis)
Summary excerpt: MicroXML began at the end of 2010 when James Clark wanted to explore a subset of XML. MicroXML … [more]
Title: Moving sands: Adventures in XML e-book-land
Contributors
Michel Biezunski (Infoloom)
Summary excerpt: Converting XML to e-books supported by multiple devices is a significant task. Deficiencies in the … [more]
Title: On XML Languages…
Contributors
Norman Walsh
Summary excerpt: Some XML languages have an XML syntax, some have a non-XML syntax, and some have both. This paper … [more]
Title: Quality assurance in the XML world: Beyond validation
Contributors
Dale Waldt (LexisNexis)
Summary excerpt: Validation of XML documents typically provides feedback in binary, yes/no form. This avoids the … [more]
Title: Quality Control of PMC Content: A Case Study
Contributors
Christopher Kelly (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: PubMed Central (PMC) is the US National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences … [more]
Title: Quality Control Practice for Scholars Portal, an XML-based E-journals Repository
Contributors
Wei Zhao (OCUL Scholars Portal)
Jayanthy Chengan (OCUL Scholars Portal)
Agnes Bai (OCUL Scholars Portal)
Summary excerpt: Ontario Scholars Portal (SP) is an XML based digital repository containing over 31,000,000 articles … [more]
Title: Schematron in the Context of the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
Contributors
Kate Hamilton
Lauren Wood
Summary excerpt: The Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), created by Healthcare Level 7 HL7 is widely used in … [more]
Title: Serialisation, abstraction and XML applications
Contributors
Steven Pemberton (W3C / CWI Amsterdam)
Summary excerpt: In principle the advantages of abstraction in programming are well understood. Yet daily … [more]
Title: Simplifying XSLT stylesheet development using higher order functions
Contributors
Abel Braaksma (Abrasoft)
Summary excerpt: Higher-order functions (HOFs) are sometimes considered hard to get your head around, but they can … [more]
Title: TCS tcs: Tata Consultancy Services trash compactor script
Contributors
Charlie Halpern-Hamu (Tata Consultancy Services)
Summary excerpt: Creation of representative sample(s) of a large document collection can be automated using XSLT. … [more]
Title: The MLCD Overlap Corpus (MOC)
Contributors
Yves Marcoux (Université de Montréal)
Claus Huitfeldt (Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen)
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: The MLCD Overlap Corpus (MOC) is a collection of samples of texts and text fragments with … [more]
Title: The Ontologist
Contributors
Kurt Cagle (Avalon Consulting, Ltd.)
Summary excerpt: This paper covers the design details of the Ontologist, a MarkLogic based project for using RDF … [more]
Title: The structure of content
Contributors
Steven J. DeRose (OpenAmplify)
Summary excerpt: Text analytics involves extracting features of meaning from natural language texts and making them … [more]
Title: Things change, or, the “real meaning” of technical terms
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Vocabulary is slippery, especially the sorts of technical jargon we are immersed in at events like … [more]
Title: Things stay the same, or, the real meaning of technical work
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: What does not change when things … [more]
Title: Type Introspection in XQuery
Contributors
Mary Holstege (MarkLogic Corporation)
Summary excerpt: Type introspection gives a program the ability to determine the type of object at runtime and … [more]
Title: Using XML to Implement XML
Contributors
Ari Nordström (Condesign AB)
Summary excerpt: This paper discusses implementing XProc-based publishing and processing in a document management … [more]
Title: Using XProc, XSLT 2.0, and XSD 1.1 to validate RESTful services
Contributors
Jorge Luis Williams (Rackspace Hosting)
David Cramer (Rackspace Hosting)
Summary excerpt: Documentation of RESTful services must be accurate and detailed. As a REST service is being … [more]
Title: Utilizing new capabilities of XML languages to verify integrity constraints
Contributors
Jakub Malý (XML and Web Engineering Research Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic )
Martin Nečaský (XML and Web Engineering Research Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic )
Summary excerpt: In this work, we show how integrity constraints expressed using Object Constraint Language (OCL) … [more]
Title: XiBIT
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: The XiBIT (XML-in-the-browser interoperability tests) Project seeks to provide a systematic … [more]
Title: XML Entropy Study
Contributors
Hervé Ruellan (Canon Research Centre France S.A.S.)
Summary excerpt: Reducing the impact of XML documents both in term of size and in term of processing speed has been … [more]
Title: XML instances to validate XML schemas
Contributors
Eric van der Vlist (Dyomedea)
Summary excerpt: Ever modified an XML schema? Ever broken something while fixing a bug or adding a new feature? As … [more]
Title: XQuery, XSLT and JSON
Contributors
Jonathan Robie
Summary excerpt: XML and JSON have become the dominant formats for exchanging data on the Internet, and applications … [more]