Balisage 2018 Index
Title: "Be in the Room Where It Happens"
Contributors
Sheila Morrissey (ITHAKA)
John Meyer (ITHAKA)
Sushil Bhattarai (ITHAKA)
Summary excerpt: Institutions such as Portico that are engaged in ensuring that the digital record of our time is … [more]
Title: A lite DITA+ model for technical manuals
Contributors
Pradeep Jain (Ictect, Inc.)
Joe Gollner (Gnostyx Research Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Recent work with two major healthcare organizations on DITA XML revealed two somewhat contradictory … [more]
Title: An Adventure with Client-Side XSLT to an Architecture for Building Bridges with Javascript
Contributors
Katherine Ford (O'Connor's)
Will Thompson (O'Connor's)
Summary excerpt: This paper describes the development process we undertook to extend the capabilities of an … [more]
Title: CETEIcean: TEI in the Browser
Contributors
Hugh Cayless
Raffaele Viglianti
Summary excerpt: CETEIcean is a Javascript library designed to render TEI XML in a modern web browser. It does not … [more]
Title: Copy-fitting for Fun and Profit
Contributors
Tony Graham (Antenna House, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Copy-fitting is the fitting of words into the space available for them or, sometimes, adjusting the … [more]
Title: DITA
Contributors
Kristen James Eberlein (Eberlein Consulting LLC)
Summary excerpt: DITA, the OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture, is an XML-based specification for modular … [more]
Title: DocBook
Contributors
Norman Walsh (MarkLogic Corporation)
Summary excerpt: DocBook is a general purpose XML schema particularly well suited to books and papers about computer … [more]
Title: Documentation of XSLTs with Code Intelligence
Contributors
Vasu Chakkera (Sapient Corporation)
Summary excerpt: We benefit more from documenting why certain functionality was implemented, or coded in a … [more]
Title: Dynamic Style
Contributors
Steven J. DeRose ()
Summary excerpt: I here present a tool, called AJICSS, intended to make two things easier: first, developers’ … [more]
Title: Easing the road to declarative programming in XSLT for imperative programmers
Contributors
Abel Braaksma (Exselt, a streaming XSLT 3.0 processor) (Abrasoft Consulting)
Summary excerpt: As most programmers learn their trait in mainstream languages like C, C#, Java or nowadays in … [more]
Title: Flattening and unflattening XML markup: a Zen garden of XSLT and other tools
Contributors
David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)
Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg)
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies)
Summary excerpt: From time to time, it may be necessary or expedient to flatten our XML documents by replacing the … [more]
Title: Fractal information is
Contributors
Wendell Piez
Summary excerpt: We wrestle often with the granularity of data formats, object models, interfaces, and APIs: their … [more]
Title: How are dependent works realized?
Contributors
Jacob Jett (University of Illinois)
David Dubin (University of Illinois)
Summary excerpt: When a work of authorship is published in a new edition, what exactly is the relationship between … [more]
Title: In Defence of Style Guides
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Summary excerpt: This is a paper about that twilight zone beyond schemas, the place where style guides, those arcane … [more]
Title: JATS/BITS/NISO STS
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: The Journal Article Tag Suite is an application of NISO Z39.96-2015, which defines a set of XML … [more]
Title: Markup ethics: Trolley problems for text encoders
Contributors
Allen H. Renear (University of Illinois — Urbana-Champaign )
Summary excerpt: We are engineering; we are solving problems, improving reliability, effectiveness, efficiency. But … [more]
Title: Metaphors We Code By
Contributors
Mary Holstege (MarkLogic Corporation)
Summary excerpt: Computer information and software are abstractions. We comprehend them through the use of … [more]
Title: On the Descriptions of Data: The Usability of Notations
Contributors
Steven Pemberton (CWI)
Summary excerpt: This presentation was given at Balisage 2018 as an Encore Presentation. The Balisage program … [more]
Title: Organizational and Funding Options for Markup Vocabulary Creation and Maintenance
Contributors
Todd Carpenter (National Information Standards Organization (NISO))
Summary excerpt: There are many ways to create a markup vocabulary and many forums in which it can be done. Creating … [more]
Title: PreTeXt
Contributors
Robert A. Beezer (University of Puget Sound)
Summary excerpt: PreTeXt is an XML vocabulary for scholarly documents. A key feature is the rigorous separation of … [more]
Title: Representing concurrent document structures using Trojan Horse markup
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: The need for markup to handle multiple concurrent document structures has been clear at least since … [more]
Title: Scaling XML using a Beowulf cluster
Contributors
John J. Chelsom (Seven Informatics Ltd.)
Jay H. Chelsom (Abingdon School)
Summary excerpt: We describe a series of experiments which test the performance and scalability of an XML records … [more]
Title: Stand-off Bridges in the Frankenstein Variorum Project
Contributors
Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg)
Raffaele Viglianti (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland )
Summary excerpt: Developing the Frankenstein Variorum Project has necessitated a reconciliation of extremely … [more]
Title: Structural Metadata & Standardization Failures: Just a Little Bit of History Repeating
Contributors
Jerome McDonough
Summary excerpt: The design of the Extensible Markup Language has placed a premium on modularity and promoting the … [more]
Title: TAGML: A markup language of many dimensions
Contributors
Ronald Haentjens Dekker (Research and Development Team, KNAW Humanities Cluster)
Elli Bleeker (Research and Development Team, KNAW Humanities Cluster)
Bram Buitendijk (Research and Development Team, KNAW Humanities Cluster)
Astrid Kulsdom (Research and Development Team, KNAW Humanities Cluster)
David J. Birnbaum (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh )
Summary excerpt: This report presents new developments in three areas pertaining to Text As Graph (TAG), a data … [more]
Title: TEI
Contributors
Syd Bauman (Northeastern University)
Summary excerpt: TEI, the Text Encoding Initiative, was founded in 1987 to develop guidelines for encoding … [more]
Title: The 100 Year Web: In Praise of XML
Contributors
Steven Pemberton (CWI)
Summary excerpt: It’s about sixty years since the start of public computing; fifty years since the term “software … [more]
Title: The Journey of The History of the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590-1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato di Roma into and out of XML
Contributors
Peter M. Lukehart (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art)
Summary excerpt: When we first undertook the creation of a research database of documents concerning the early … [more]
Title: The Markup Declaration
Contributors
Norman Walsh
Bethan Tovey
Summary excerpt: Markup is a modern solution to an old problem: how to make what we know storable, searchable, and … [more]
Title: The Universal Business Language ecosystem and the OASIS TC process
Contributors
G. Ken Holman
Summary excerpt: A rich worldwide ecosystem has grown around the freely-available Universal Business Language (UBL) … [more]
Title: Transcending structure: Applying shared markup vocabularies with your friends and enemies
Contributors
Jeffrey Beck (US National Library of Medicine)
Summary excerpt: Markup makes it easier to share. We share documents with our peers, our partners, and even our … [more]
Title: Using Excel Spreadsheets to Communicate XML Analysis
Contributors
Betty Harvey
Summary excerpt: What is the best approach for analyzing large XML datasets? Reading thousands (or possibly … [more]
Title: White Hat Web Crawling: Industrial-Strength Web Crawling for Serious Content Acquisition
Contributors
Mark Gross (Data Conversion Laboratory)
Tammy Bilitzky (Data Conversion Laboratory)
Rich Dominelli (Data Conversion Laboratory)
Allan Lieberman (Data Conversion Laboratory)
Summary excerpt: Much original source material today appears only on the web or with the web version as the copy of … [more]
Title: Why are we here?
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: Sometimes our technological specifications give rise to unexpected ecological niches which in turn … [more]
Title: XForms 2.0: What's new
Contributors
Steven Pemberton (CWI, Amsterdam)
Summary excerpt: XForms is a declarative language for defining applications on the web and elsewhere, used worldwide … [more]
Title: YAMC? Why are we here? Why are we here again?
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies)
Summary excerpt: There is nothing new about markup, or even generic markup. (I have been working with generic markup … [more]