Balisage 2017 Index
Title: An XSLT Translator for the openEHR Archetype Definition Language
Contributors
John J. L. Chelsom (Seven Informatics Ltd)
Summary excerpt: The cityEHR Electronic Health Records system is a pure XML application for managing patient health … [more]
Title: A System to Identify Plagiarized Images in STM Journal Submissions
Contributors
Mark Gross (Data Conversion Laboratory)
Ari Gross (CVISION Technologies, Inc.)
Yunhao Shi (CVISION Technologies, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Plagiarism in the scientific community is not new, but has garnered greater attention in the past … [more]
Title: Automatically Denormalizing Document Relationships
Contributors
Will Thompson (O'Connor's)
Summary excerpt: Native XML databases provide no exception to the problem that data may not be easily contained by … [more]
Title: Bridging the Gap Between XML and RDF Validation
Contributors
Kurt Cagle
Summary excerpt: XSD Schema is a foundational technology for XML. In the RDF space, OWL has long established … [more]
Title: Compiling XSLT3, in the browser, in itself
Contributors
John Lumley (jωL Research) (Saxonica)
Debbie Lockett (Saxonica)
Michael Kay (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: This paper describes the development of a compiler for XSLT3.0 which can run directly in modern … [more]
Title: Doing digital humanities today: what does it take? A view from the NEH
Contributors
Brett Bobley (Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities)
Summary excerpt: What does it take to do good digital humanities work nowadays? What counts as solid work? What … [more]
Title: Encoding the Ethiopic Manuscript Tradition
Contributors
Pietro Maria Liuzzo (Universität Hamburg)
Summary excerpt: The Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea project aims to construct a virtual research … [more]
Title: Entity Services in Action with NISO STS
Contributors
Matt Turner (MarkLogic Corporation)
Summary excerpt: Standards impact nearly every industry and government process, and standards organizations like BSI … [more]
Title: Finding the Tipping Point in Automated Markup During Up-Translation
Contributors
Caitlin Gebhard (Inera Incorporated)
Summary excerpt: Up-translation can be accomplished using both automation and manual techniques. For most complex … [more]
Title: How many hamsters does it take? Under the hood at PMC
Contributors
Jeffrey D. Beck
Summary excerpt: PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text XML-based archive of biomedical and life sciences journal … [more]
Title: Interactive web applications: demonstrating SaxonJS
Contributors
Wendell Piez
Summary excerpt: SaxonJS promises “real” XSLT in the browser. Old-timers are thrilled, cool kids are showing … [more]
Title: It is time to make ourselves clear
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies)
Summary excerpt: We, the markup community, have for too long pussy-footed around in a misguided effort to get along … [more]
Title: It’s more than just overlap: Text As Graph
Contributors
Ronald Haentjens Dekker (Huygens ING)
David J. Birnbaum (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh)
Summary excerpt: The XML tree paradigm has several well-known limitations for document modeling and processing. Some … [more]
Title: Life, the Universe, and CSS Tests
Contributors
Tony Graham (Antenna House, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: The W3C CSS Working Group maintains a CSS test suite already composed of more than 17,000 tests and … [more]
Title: Looking for Rumpelstiltskin
Contributors
Mary McRae (Orbis Technologies)
Summary excerpt: Up translations are a black art; the stuff of conjurers and tricksters. The focus of this case … [more]
Title: Making a difference by processing JSON as XML
Contributors
Robin La Fontaine
Summary excerpt: Anyone who has ever published more than one version of a document can readily understand the … [more]
Title: Patterns and antipatterns in XSLT micropipelining
Contributors
David J. Birnbaum (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh)
Summary excerpt: The program logic of pipelining is often expressed by nesting function calls within one another. An … [more]
Title: Pointy brackets for poets: Can an English Major Use XML?
Contributors
Syd Bauman (Northeastern University)
Summary excerpt: For nearly thirty years the Women Writers Project has been training university students in the … [more]
Title: Rebuilding a Digital Frankenstein by 2018
Contributors
Elisa Eileen Beshero-Bondar (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg)
Summary excerpt: Digital editions were young in the 1990s, and the expansive possibilities of hypertext in that … [more]
Title: SOCRview: a case study of RESTful service development for publishing
Contributors
John Cooper (SAGE Publications, London)
Summary excerpt: SOCRview is a RESTful HTTP service layer that exposes content--including transformed, packaged … [more]
Title: Symposium introduction
Contributors
Evan Owens (Cenveo Publisher Services)
Summary excerpt: Evan Owens, the symposium chair, will introduce the context of up-translations and … [more]
Title: Testing Schematron using XSpec
Contributors
Vincent M. Lizzi (Taylor & Francis Group)
Summary excerpt: Schematron is a powerful, flexible, and user-friendly tool for validating and reporting on XML … [more]
Title: Text. You keep using that word …
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: Every data representation constitutes a data interpretation. What are SGML, XML, and other tools … [more]
Title: The Concrete Syntax of Documents: Purpose and Variety
Contributors
Mary Holstege (MarkLogic Corporation)
Summary excerpt: In the mid-eighties a group at Stanford built the MUIR language-development environment as a system … [more]
Title: The Secret Life of Schema in Web Protocols, API's and Software Type Systems
Contributors
David Lee (Nexstra, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: In this publication, I describe some of the results of several years’ research and experimentation … [more]
Title: Translating imperative algorithms into declarative, functional terms
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: In building up subroutine libraries for XSLT and XQuery, it is sometimes useful to re-implement … [more]
Title: Up and Sideways
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Summary excerpt: A conversion of hundreds of Rich Text Format documents to highly structured XML is always going to … [more]
Title: Uphill to XML with XSLT, XProc … and HTML
Contributors
Wendell Piez
Summary excerpt: HTML is a widely familiar vernacular for ad-hoc representation of documents, and can be useful as a … [more]
Title: Using DITA to Create Security Configuration Checklists
Contributors
Joshua Lubell (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Summary excerpt: Many software tools use security configuration checklists expressed in the Extensible Configuration … [more]
Title: Using DocBook5
Contributors
Murray Maloney
Summary excerpt: Production notes from an academic book project designed to yield variations of a single work in … [more]
Title: XML Applications on the Web
Contributors
Zahra Al-Awadai (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
Anne Brüggemann-Klein (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
Michael Conrads (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
Andreas Eichner (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
Marouane Sayih (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
Summary excerpt: How can we use XML, XQuery, and SCXML (State Chart XML) to implement the Model component in a … [more]
Title: Your Standard Average Document Grammar
Contributors
Peter Flynn
Summary excerpt: Most document XML applications adopt or adapt one of a small number of well-known public document … [more]