Balisage 2015 Index
Title: "To those who startle at innovation..."
Contributors
Laura Randall (National Library of Medicine)
Summary excerpt: In these times of electronic journal publishing, adopting a continuous publication model is easy … [more]
Title: Accounting for Context in Markup: Which Situation, Whose Semantics?
Contributors
Karen M. Wickett (University of Texas at Austin)
Summary excerpt: Situation semantics - as developed by Barwise and Perry - is a general theory of meaning for … [more]
Title: A client-side JATS4R validator using Saxon-CE
Contributors
Chris Maloney (NCBI/NLM/NIH)
Alf Eaton (PeerJ)
Jeff Beck (NCBI/NLM/NIH)
Summary excerpt: JATS4R (jats4r.org) is a group that provides guidelines for tagging scholarly articles in JATS XML … [more]
Title: Applying intertextual semantics to Cyberjustice
Contributors
Yves Marcoux (Université de Montréal)
Summary excerpt: We report on a project consisting in the application of the Intertextual Semantics modeling method … [more]
Title: Calling things by their true names
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC) (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Summary excerpt: One of Leibniz’s many projects for improving the world involved the construction of an encyclopedia … [more]
Title: Comparing and diffing XML schemas
Contributors
Priscilla Walmsley (Datypic)
Summary excerpt: Schemas evolve over time, and it is useful to be able to automatically compare versions of a schema … [more]
Title: Data transforms, patterns and profiles for 21st century Cultural Heritage
Contributors
Uche Ogbuji (Zepheira LLC)
Mark Baker (Zepheira LLC)
Summary excerpt: If you search for books and other media on the Web, you find Amazon, Wikipedia, and many other … [more]
Title: Diagramming XML
Contributors
Liam R E Quin (W3C)
Summary excerpt: The growth in popularity of “Big Data” has brought an increased interest in visualization; that is, … [more]
Title: Divide and Conquer: can we handle complex markup simply?
Contributors
Robin La Fontaine
Summary excerpt: Cultural Heritage markup can quickly become complex because of the need to represent multiple, and … [more]
Title: Duplicitous Diabolos
Contributors
Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University)
Summary excerpt: This paper briefly discusses markup, metadata and evaluation issues that arise when projects do not … [more]
Title: EAGLE and EUROPEANA
Contributors
Pietro Maria Liuzzo (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Summary excerpt: EAGLE, The Europeana network for Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy, a project co-founded by the … [more]
Title: Encoding document and text in the Shelley-Godwin Archive
Contributors
Raffaele Viglianti
Summary excerpt: The Shelley-Godwin Archive uses TEI to encode manuscript text from two perspectives: one focused on … [more]
Title: Encoding Western and Non-Western Names for Ancient Syriac Authors
Contributors
Nathan P. Gibson (Vanderbilt University)
Winona Salesky
David A. Michelson (Vanderbilt University)
Summary excerpt: One of the major digital challenges of the Syriaca.org research project has been to encode and … [more]
Title: Extending the Cybersecurity Digital Thread with XForms
Contributors
Joshua Lubell (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Summary excerpt: The digital thread for cybersecurity enables security technologies and data sources to … [more]
Title: Hyperdocument Authoring Link Management Using Git and XQuery in Service of an Abstract Hyperdocument Management Model Applied to DITA Hyperdocuments
Contributors
Eliot Kimber (Contrext, LLC)
Summary excerpt: The authoring and management of hyperdocuments through non-trivial development and publication life … [more]
Title: Implementing a System at US Patent and Trademark Office to Fully Automate the Conversion of Filing Documents to XML
Contributors
Terrel Morris (US Patent and Trademark Office)
Mark Gross (Data Conversion Laboratory)
Amit Khare (CGI Federal)
Summary excerpt: Many governmental and private organizations, such as the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) … [more]
Title: Integrating Digital Epigraphies (or, if you think the 19th century was bad, try living in the 20th)
Contributors
Joshua D. Sosin (Duke University)
Summary excerpt: IDEs aims to provide core infrastructure for the field of Greek epigraphy (the study of texts … [more]
Title: Introducing The UK National Archives Digital Records Metadata Vocabulary
Contributors
Robert Walpole (Devexe Limited)
Summary excerpt: This paper describes the context and rationale for developing a new metadata vocabulary for digital … [more]
Title: Introduction to Cultural Heritage Markup
Contributors
Hugh A. Cayless (Duke University)
Summary excerpt: Cultural heritage materials are remarkable for their complexity and heterogenity. This often means … [more]
Title: Markup and meter: Using XML tools to teach a computer to think about versification
Contributors
David J. Birnbaum (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh )
Elise Thorsen (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh )
Summary excerpt: This paper describes an XML-based system to identify and visualize some of the structural features … [more]
Title: Markup as Index Interface
Contributors
Mary Holstege (MarkLogic Corporation)
Summary excerpt: To a search engine, indexes are specified by the content: the words, phrases, and characters that … [more]
Title: MML: Multi Markup Language — When one markup language just isn’t enough
Contributors
David A. Lee (MarkLogic, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: The fundamental arguments in the “XML” vs “JSON” “Debate/War” are irrelevant. True, XML can be … [more]
Title: Publishing TEI documents with TEI Simple
Contributors
Joseph C. Wicentowski (U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian)
Wolfgang Meier (eXist Solutions GmbH)
Summary excerpt: TEI Simple addresses two challenges shared by many humanities-based text digitization projects that … [more]
Title: Smart Content for High-Value Communications
Contributors
David White (Quark Software Inc.)
Summary excerpt: 14 years after the original XML specification reached recommendation status and more than 30 years … [more]
Title: Specifying a TEI-XML Based Format for Aligning Text to Image at Character Level
Contributors
Alexei Lavrentiev (ICAR Research Lab, CNRS)
Yann Leydier (Université de Lyon, CNRS, INSA-Lyon, LIRIS, UMR5205, F-69621, France)
Dominique Stutzmann (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, CNRS)
Summary excerpt: This papers presents an experience of specifying and implementing an XML format for text to image … [more]
Title: Spreadsheets - 90+ million End User Programmers With No Comment Tracking or Version Control
Contributors
Patrick Durusau
Sam Hunting
Summary excerpt: Stephen Gandel's Damn Excel! How the 'most important software application of all time' is ruining … [more]
Title: Statecharts and State Chart XML as a Modeling Technique in Web Engineering
Contributors
Anne Brüggemann-Klein (Technische Universität München)
Marouane Sayih (Technische Universität München)
Zlatina Keskivov (Technische Universität München)
Summary excerpt: Domain-driven design is a methodology that attempts to improve software development by focusing on … [more]
Title: The art of the elevator pitch
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies)
Summary excerpt: Many of us at Balisage feel that the universe (or our organization, sponsor, client, or … [more]
Title: The State of MathML in K-12 Educational Publishing
Contributors
Autumn Cuellar (Design Science)
Jean Kaplansky (Safari)
Summary excerpt: Educational publishers are moving to modern, single-source XML production workflows and are … [more]
Title: Three Ways to Enhance the Interoperability of Cross-References in TEI XML
Contributors
Joel Kalvesmaki (Dumbarton Oaks)
Summary excerpt: Systems are 'interoperable' if each can work with products of the other with minimal external … [more]
Title: Tricolor automata
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC) (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Summary excerpt: Tricolor automata are extensions of finite state automata, intended for the comparison of two … [more]
Title: Two from Three (in XSLT)
Contributors
John Lumley (jωL Research) (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: This paper discusses automated methods of 'downgrading' XSLT 3.0 programs into XSLT 2.0 syntax and … [more]
Title: UnderDok
Contributors
Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen)
Summary excerpt: UnderDok is an XML system for publishing, quality assurance, and change tracking of higher … [more]
Title: Vivliostyle - Open source, web browser based CSS typesetting engine
Contributors
Shinyu Murakami (Vivliostyle Inc.)
Johannes Wilm (Vivliostyle Inc.)
Summary excerpt: We are working on a new typesetting engine using CSS for styling implemented in JavaScript. In this … [more]
Title: XML (almost) all the way
Contributors
Peter Flynn
Summary excerpt: In 2006 my university academic IT support group was approached by an academic colleague wanting to … [more]
Title: XML Solutions for Swedish Farmers
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Summary excerpt: The Federation of Swedish Farmers – LRF - provides its 170,000 members with a web-based service to … [more]
Title: XQuery as a data integration language
Contributors
Hans-Jürgen Rennau (Traveltainment GmbH)
Christian Grün (BaseX GmbH)
Summary excerpt: The appropriateness of the XQuery language for data integration is explored. The starting point is … [more]
Title: XSDGuide – Automated Generation of Web Interfaces from XML Schemas: A Case Study for Suspicious Activity Reporting
Contributors
Fabrizio Gotti (RALI, Université de Montréal)
Kevin Heffner (Pegasus Research & Technologies)
Guy Lapalme (RALI, Université de Montréal)
Summary excerpt: This article presents XSDGuide, a software prototype aimed at facilitating the creation of user … [more]
Title: XSLT Pipelines in XSLT
Contributors
Tomos Hillman (Oxford University Press)
Summary excerpt: Pipelines consisting of XSLT transforms are in common use, particularly in the publishing industry. … [more]