Balisage 2013 Index
Title: A Data-Driven Approach using XForms for Building a Web Forms Generation Framework
Contributors
Stephen Cameron (Collinta)
William David Velásquez (Visión Tecnológica S.A.S.) (University of Medellín)
Summary excerpt: In a project to build a web-based auto-generated forms framework, we needed to decide whether to … [more]
Title: An extensible API for documents with multiple annotation layers
Contributors
Nils Diewald (Universität Bielefeld) (Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) Mannheim)
Maik Stührenberg (Universität Bielefeld)
Summary excerpt: Both XML namespaces and standoff annotation are promising approaches to tackle possibly overlapping … [more]
Title: A Proposed Model for the Collection and Curation of Slide Sets
Contributors
Alan Bilansky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Summary excerpt: Slides sets, created in PowerPoint and by other means, should be collected and curated. The value … [more]
Title: Climbing the hill
Contributors
Michael Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies )
Summary excerpt: Notes on making things better and on getting from here to where we want to … [more]
Title: Could authors really write in XML one day?
Contributors
Peter Flynn
Summary excerpt: The learning curve for non-markup-expert authors to start writing and editing structured documents … [more]
Title: Customizing a general purpose XML editor: oXygen's authoring environment
Contributors
George Bina (Syncro Soft)
Summary excerpt: oXygen started in 2001 as an IDE for XML and XML related technologies but after some years our … [more]
Title: Decision making in XSL-FO formatting
Contributors
Tony Graham (Mentea)
Summary excerpt: XSL-FO has a very linear processing model that has served it well, but very often it is necessary … [more]
Title: Extending BITS with an orthogonal layer for conveying layout information using CSSa
Contributors
Gerrit Imsieke (le-tex publishing services GmbH)
Summary excerpt: Deploying advanced XML technologies such as XProc, XSLT 2.0, and Schematron, an "ex-post" … [more]
Title: Fat Markup: Trimming the Fat Markup Myth one calorie at a time
Contributors
David Lee (MarkLogic, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: We all know that XML is "fat" and JSON is the "thinner", "faster", "smaller", "better" markup. We … [more]
Title: General Architecture for Generation of Slide Presentations, including PowerPoint, from arbitrary XML Documents
Contributors
Eliot Kimber (Contrext)
Summary excerpt: PowerPoint slide decks are often required for training content authored in XML. Until recently … [more]
Title: Generating Schema-Aware XML Editors in XForms
Contributors
Mustapha Maalej (Technische Universität München)
Anne Brüggemann-Klein (Technische Universität München)
Summary excerpt: From XForms, it is possible to provide simple user interfaces for editing XML documents. From an … [more]
Title: icXML: Accelerating a Commercial XML Parser Using SIMD and Multicore Technologies
Contributors
Nigel Medforth (International Characters Inc.) (School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University )
Dan Lin (School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University )
Kenneth Herdy (School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University )
Rob Cameron (Simon Fraser University) (International Characters, Inc.)
Arrvindh Shriraman (School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University)
Summary excerpt: Prior research on the acceleration of XML processing using single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) … [more]
Title: Igel: Comparing document grammars using XQuery
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Oliver Schonefeld (Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS))
Marc Kupietz (Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS))
Harald Lüngen (Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS))
Andreas Witt (Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS))
Summary excerpt: Igel is a small XQuery-based web application for examining a collection of document grammars; in … [more]
Title: Inconsistent XML as a barrier to reuse of Open Access Content
Contributors
Daniel Mietchen (Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions - und Biodiversitätsforschung, Germany ) (Open Knowledge Foundation, Germany)
Chris Maloney (PMC/NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD)
Nils Dagsson Moskopp (Humboldt University, Germany (student))
Summary excerpt: In this paper, we will describe the current state of some of the tagging of articles within the PMC … [more]
Title: Indexing Queries in Lux
Contributors
Michael Sokolov (Safari Books Online)
Summary excerpt: Query optimizers often mystify database users: sometimes queries run quickly and sometimes they … [more]
Title: Interactive XSLT in the browser
Contributors
O'Neil Delpratt (Saxonica)
Michael Kay (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: Remember the dream of being able to process XML in the browser to write richly interactive … [more]
Title: Invisible XML
Contributors
Steven Pemberton (CWI, Amsterdam)
Summary excerpt: What if you could see everything as XML? XML has many strengths for data exchange, strengths both … [more]
Title: JATS and NISO — the value of community standardization
Contributors
Todd Carpenter (NISO)
Summary excerpt: Since its earliest days, the publishing structures that became the Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) … [more]
Title: Marking up changes to ISO standards: A case study
Contributors
Tristan Mitchell (DeltaXML Ltd.)
Nigel Whitaker (DeltaXML Ltd.)
Summary excerpt: The ISO Standards Tags Set (ISOSTS) is a customization of NISO’s Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) … [more]
Title: Markup and Canada's National Model Building Codes
Contributors
Brent Nordin
Summary excerpt: This paper offers up a brief publishing oriented view of the Canadian National Building Codes since … [more]
Title: Markup to generate markup to generate markup
Contributors
Peter Flynn
Summary excerpt: This paper presents an experiment in using DocBook5 to mark up and maintain LaTeX classes and … [more]
Title: Modeling overlapping structures
Contributors
Yves Marcoux (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Michael Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies )
Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen, Norway)
Summary excerpt: The problem of overlapping structures has long been familiar to the structured document community. … [more]
Title: mPach: Integrated Publishing and Archiving of Journals in HathiTrust
Contributors
Kevin S. Hawkins (Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan)
Seth Johnson (Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan)
Carrick Rogers (Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan)
Bryan Smith (Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan)
Summary excerpt: mPach is a package of tools being developed to provide a modular platform to enable the publication … [more]
Title: Musical Variants: Encoding, Analysis and Visualization
Contributors
Johannes Kepper (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Perry Roland (University of Virginia Library, USA)
Daniel Röwenstrunk (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Summary excerpt: The following paper proposes a model for the encoding of variance in music that is based on … [more]
Title: My document object model can do more than yours
Contributors
Alain Couthures
Summary excerpt: Document object models, specifically the browser DOM, were designed to represent HTML and XML … [more]
Title: Ontology based Biomedical Research Paper Authoring Support Tool
Contributors
Senator Jeong (National Center for Medical Information and Knowledge, Korea National Institute of Health )
Sejin Nam (Biomedical Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, Seoul National University)
Hyun-Young Park (National Center for Medical Information and Knowledge, Korea National Institute of Health )
Summary excerpt: Biomedical research papers typically formatted as IMRAD structure: Introduction, Methods, Results … [more]
Title: Poio API and GraF-XML
Contributors
Jonathan Blumtritt (Cologne Center for eHumanities, University of Cologne)
Peter Bouda (Centro Interdisciplinar de Documentação Linguística e Social)
Felix Rau (Department of Linguistics, University of Cologne)
Summary excerpt: This paper presents an ongoing CLARIN project that implements a library and web application for … [more]
Title: Processing XForms in HTML5-Enabled Browsers
Contributors
Tobias Niedl
Anne Brüggemann-Klein (Technische Universität München)
Summary excerpt: Forms technology for the World Wide Web has developed along two lines. The XForms strain has worked … [more]
Title: Programming in XPath 3.0
Contributors
Dimitre Novatchev (IMS Health / Appature)
Summary excerpt: While XPath is universally considered the critical intersection of XSLT and XQuery, until recently … [more]
Title: ProofExpress
Contributors
Charles O'Connor (Dartmouth Journal Services)
Antony Gnanapiragasam (Dartmouth Journal Services)
Michael Hepp (Dartmouth Journal Services)
Summary excerpt: For a browser-based XML article proofing system to function well in a journal publishing workflow … [more]
Title: ProX: XML for interfacing with XML for processing XML (and an XForm to go with it)
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Summary excerpt: The process XML or ProX for short was introduced to create an abstraction layer around running … [more]
Title: RESTful Service Description Language (RSDL)
Contributors
Jonathan Robie (EMC Corporation)
Rob Cavicchio (EMC Corporation)
Rémon Sinnema (EMC Corporation)
Erik Wilde (EMC Corporation)
Summary excerpt: RESTful Service Description Language (RSDL) is an XML vocabulary for designing and documenting … [more]
Title: Seeking Suggestions for Future JATS-Con Events
Contributors
Jeff Beck (NLM/NCBI)
Summary excerpt: This Impromptu JATS Users Group meeting is helping to fill the gap created by the shutdown of the … [more]
Title: Semantic Profiling Using Indirection
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Summary excerpt: Profiling is an often-used XML publishing technique where nodes are marked as conditional according … [more]
Title: Some Assembly Required
Contributors
Jerome McDonough
Summary excerpt: The semantics of XML markup is a perennial topic of discussion among markup enthusiasts, but these … [more]
Title: The Allure of Gothic Markup
Contributors
Simon St.Laurent (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: XML inherited and worsened SGML's legalistic tendencies, promoting a world of markup built to … [more]
Title: The Case for Authoring and Producing Books in (X)HTML5
Contributors
Sanders Kleinfeld
Summary excerpt: In this paper, I argue that HTML5 offers unique advantages to authors and publishers in comparison … [more]
Title: The Challenges and Benefits of Automating NLM-to-ePub3 File Conversion
Contributors
Mike Dean (CFA Institute)
Summary excerpt: While converting NLM book tag XML to an ePub seems like a relatively straightforward process (hey … [more]
Title: The FtanML Markup Language
Contributors
Michael Kay (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: This paper presents a new markup language called FtanML, together with an associated schema … [more]
Title: The New W3C Publishing Activity
Contributors
Liam Quin (W3C)
Summary excerpt: The W3C is involving publishers and people and organizations who provide tools for publishers in an … [more]
Title: The semantics of “semantic”
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies)
Summary excerpt: There was a time when I knew what the word “semantic” meant. That was a long time ago. Since then … [more]
Title: The Web, the W3C and the Future of Publishing
Contributors
Liam R. E. Quin (W3C)
Summary excerpt: As custodians of the World Wide Web, the Web Consortium (W3C) is both a leader and a follower. We … [more]
Title: The XML info space
Contributors
Hans-Jürgen Rennau (Traveltainment GmbH)
Summary excerpt: XML-related standards imply an architecture of distributed information which integrates all … [more]
Title: Transcending Triples
Contributors
Micah Dubinko (MarkLogic)
Summary excerpt: Semantic modeling to date has been largely an exercise in considering the whole world as triples … [more]
Title: Transforming schemas
Contributors
John Cowan (LexisNexis)
Summary excerpt: The traditional approach to transforming XML documents is a three-step pipeline: validate … [more]
Title: Using XForms for interfaces to XML data
Contributors
Steven Pemberton (CWI, Amsterdam)
Summary excerpt: XForms is a high-level tool for defining user interfaces to XML data. With a design based on years … [more]
Title: WebVTT versus TTML: XML considered harmful for web captions?
Contributors
Andreas Tai (Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik, Munich)
Summary excerpt: This paper investigates why the XML standard TTML was rejected as timed text format by the WHATWG … [more]
Title: What, when, where? Spatial and temporal annotations with XStandoff
Contributors
Maik Stührenberg (Universität Bielefeld)
Summary excerpt: We describe an extension for the generalized standoff approach XStandoff to describe spatial … [more]
Title: What it is vs. how we shall: complementary agendas for data models and architectures
Contributors
David Dubin (University of Illinois)
Megan Senseney (University of Illinois)
Jacob Jett (University of Illinois)
Summary excerpt: Data models play two kinds of role in information interchange. Descriptively, they offer domain … [more]
Title: Where Are All The Bugs?
Contributors
Mary Holstege (MarkLogic Corporation)
Summary excerpt: In a large code and complex code base, it becomes unfeasible to manually develop tests for every … [more]
Title: Where did all the document kids go?
Contributors
Matt Patterson
Summary excerpt: When I began developing with XML technologies, there were a multitude of toolkits and … [more]
Title: XForms generation: a real world example
Contributors
Éric Sigaud (INSEE)
Romain Tailhurat (INSEE)
Franck Cotton (INSEE)
Éric van der Vlist (Dyomedea)
Summary excerpt: INSEE runs a lot of surveys and needs to make them available on different media: paper … [more]