Balisage 2019 Index
Title: "With One Voice:" A Modular Approach to Streamlining Character Data for Tokenization
Contributors
Ashley M. Clark
Summary excerpt: This article discusses the concerns that arise when deriving textual content from a marked-up … [more]
Title: Accessibility: Not Just a Good Idea
Contributors
Chandi Perera (Typefi Systems)
Summary excerpt: Around 15% of the global population has a permanent disability, including approximately 285 million … [more]
Title: Akoma Ntoso:
Contributors
Fabio Vitali (University of Bologna)
Monica Palmirani (University of Bologna)
Summary excerpt: We present different techniques to manage customization of Akoma Ntoso XSD, an OASIS XML vocabulary … [more]
Title: Aparecium
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: Aparecium is an XQuery / XSLT library for reading non-XML data as XML, under the control of an … [more]
Title: Application of Brzozowski Derivatives to JSON Schema Validation
Contributors
Mary Holstege (MarkLogic Corporation)
Summary excerpt: Brzozowski derivatives are a technique for computing whether a string of symbols is in the language … [more]
Title: Beyond OmniMark
Contributors
Sam Wilmott
Summary excerpt: The field of programming languages is in continual flux: there are new languages coming along every … [more]
Title: Customizing DocBook
Contributors
Norman Walsh
Summary excerpt: DocBook is a general purpose XML vocabulary particularly well suited to books and papers about … [more]
Title: Customizing JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite)
Contributors
Deborah A. Lapeyre (Mulberry Technologies)
Summary excerpt: Document Type: The core JATS Document Type is a journal article and the ANSI/NISO JATS Tag Sets are … [more]
Title: DITA Grammar Customization
Contributors
Eliot Kimber (Contrext, LLC)
Summary excerpt: The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard defines a layered extension mechanism … [more]
Title: Do we really want to see markup?
Contributors
James David Mason
Summary excerpt: Markup fanatics have long cried, “We need to see the markup!” Yet since the earliest stages of … [more]
Title: Eating Your Own Dog Food
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Summary excerpt: XML and markup technologies are a wonderful thing, but only lately has the author had the … [more]
Title: Encoding
Contributors
Allen H. Renear (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Summary excerpt: In their model of digital objects, David Dubin and others postulate three entity types … [more]
Title: Explicit markup: a fool’s errand or the next big thing?
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies)
Summary excerpt: In 1998, at a Balisage predecessor conference, Brian Reid told us we couldn’t have the world we … [more]
Title: Extending Vocabularies: The Rack and the Weeds
Contributors
Liam Quin (Delightful Computing)
Summary excerpt: In its simplest form a vocabulary is simply a set of words and phrases with predefined meanings. In … [more]
Title: Graphical user interfaces in the X stack
Contributors
Zahra Al-Awadai (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
Anne Brüggemann-Klein (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
Christina Grubmüller (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
Philipp Ulrich (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
Summary excerpt: “XML Everywhere” isn't just a slogan: it actually works, up and down the XML application stack. … [more]
Title: Implementing TEI Standoff Annotation in the browser
Contributors
Hugh Cayless
Summary excerpt: Proposes a method for encoding and visualizing arbitrary annotated segments of TEI … [more]
Title: Loose-leaf publishing using Antenna House and CSS
Contributors
Eliot Kimber (Contrext, LLC)
Summary excerpt: Loose-leaf publishing is the ability to typeset and print only the pages in a document that have … [more]
Title: Markup Vocabulary Customization
Contributors
Syd Bauman (Digital Scholarship Group, Northeastern University)
Summary excerpt: Introductory paragraph for the 2019 Balisage Symposium … [more]
Title: Multitasking algorithms in XForms
Contributors
John M. Boyer (IBM Canada)
Summary excerpt: User interaction with the XML data layer of an XHTML document can be orchestrated by XForms, a … [more]
Title: One Document Does-it-all (ODD): a language for documentation, schema generation, and customization from the Text Encoding Initiative
Contributors
Raffaele Viglianti (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland )
Summary excerpt: TEI, the Text Encoding Initiative, was founded in 1987 to develop guidelines for encoding … [more]
Title: Rules for the Rulemakers
Contributors
Jeffrey Beck (NCBI/NLM/NIH)
Summary excerpt: Maximal flexibility of rules, or ease of reuse — choose one. The tighter the rules, the more … [more]
Title: SCAP Composer
Contributors
Joshua Lubell (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Summary excerpt: The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) schema for source data stream collections … [more]
Title: The integration of XML databases and content management systems in digital editions
Contributors
David J. Birnbaum (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh (US))
Hugh Cayless (Duke University (US))
Emmanuelle Morlock (French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) - HiSoMA Reserch Center (UMR 5189) )
Leif-Jöran Olsson (Språkbanken, Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg (Sweden))
Joseph Wicentowski (Office of the Historian, US Department of State)
Summary excerpt: We have identified four models for integrating digital edition content into eXist-db [eXist-db] … [more]
Title: The Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL): schema and metaschema
Contributors
Wendell Piez (National Institute of Standards and Technologies / Information Technology Laboratory )
Summary excerpt: The Information Technology Lab at NIST is developing prototype formats for machine-readable … [more]
Title: Thinking, wishing, saying
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: Can we have rules for our documents we cannot write down in a schema language? If a conformance … [more]
Title: Using BITS for conference paper conversion
Contributors
Alexander B. Schwarzman (The Optical Society)
Jennifer Mayfield (The Optical Society)
Summary excerpt: As is typical for many society publishers, OSA–The Optical Society, has both a journal and a … [more]
Title: We Created Document Dysfunction
Contributors
Jean Paoli (Docugami Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Some of us building software need to take a hard look in the mirror. For years, we have promised … [more]
Title: XProc 3.0
Contributors
Norman Walsh
Achim Berndzen
Summary excerpt: XProc 3.0 is an XML pipeline language for constructing markup centric workflows. With a rich … [more]
Title: You’re not the POS of me: part-of-speech tagging as a markup problem
Contributors
Bethan Siân Tovey (Prifysgol Abertawe / Swansea University)
Summary excerpt: Part of speech tagging, labeling every token in a text with its grammatical category, is a … [more]