Balisage 2024 Index
Title: Adventures in Mainframes, Text-based Messaging, and iXML
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Summary excerpt: When pointy brackets still meant SGML, an aerospace working group produced a text-based messaging … [more]
Title: Break up the Bundle; Sell the Components
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: The XML market has been moderately successful selling a package that includes: some philosophies … [more]
Title: Can LLMs help with XML?
Contributors
Steven J. DeRose ()
Summary excerpt: LLMs have become popular for a huge range of tasks. They train over vast collections of text yet … [more]
Title: Clean SOAP
Contributors
Paul Prescod (Elation Health)
Phill Tornroth (Elation Health)
Summary excerpt: Healthcare systems worldwide face a crisis: there are far too few Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) … [more]
Title: Content Profile/Linked Document
Contributors
Edgar Schouten (Elsevier)
Summary excerpt: Balisage 2024 included a short-subject Open Microphone session, during which conference attendees … [more]
Title: Deviant Causal Chains: A Problem for the Conceptual Modeling of Influence
Contributors
Jingzhu Wei (School of Information Management, Sun Yat-Sen University)
Allen H. Renear (School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Summary excerpt: An Encore Presentation, originally given at the SIG-CM Workshop on Conceptual Modeling, JCDL 2020 … [more]
Title: DTD (document type definition) declarations exposed in XSLT
Contributors
Liam Quin
Summary excerpt: The XML specification defines a syntax for, and semantics for, a document type definition (DTD). An … [more]
Title: Ensuring XML Quality and Compatibility in Large Collections That Span Decades of Content
Contributors
Mark Gross (Data Conversion Laboratory)
Summary excerpt: One of the promises of XML applications and related technologies is the consistency and longevity … [more]
Title: From Word to XML via iXML
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: In a rebooted project to produce a second edition of Michael Alexander’s reference work Trials in … [more]
Title: Generating MARC records from BITS
Contributors
Mark Dunn (Oxford University Press)
Summary excerpt: Balisage 2024 included a short-subject Open Microphone session, during which conference attendees … [more]
Title: Graph Query Language - the new kid on the block!
Contributors
Alex Miłowski
Summary excerpt: There is a new kid on the block and they may have stolen your lunch! Or maybe you’ll make a new … [more]
Title: Invisible Fish: API Experimentation with InvisibleXML
Contributors
Mary Holstege
Summary excerpt: Developing a simplifying textual interface over a complex set of components can be tricky. Here I … [more]
Title: ISO Schematron: Update on the Draft International Standard
Contributors
Andrew Sales (Bloomsbury Publishing Group plc)
Summary excerpt: Balisage 2024 included a short-subject Open Microphone session, during which conference attendees … [more]
Title: Printing Should ̶B̶e̶ ̶I̶n̶v̶i̶s̶i̶b̶l̶e̶ Not Be Irritating
Contributors
Tony Graham (Antenna House, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: In Printing Should Be Invisible, Beatrice Warde likened good typography to a crystal, rather than … [more]
Title: Pulse, Parse, and Ponder
Contributors
Joseph Michael Courtney (Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UCONN Health (US))
Michael Robert Gryk (Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UCONN Health (US)) (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (US))
Summary excerpt: This paper explores the application of Invisible XML (iXML) to parse the Bruker Pulse Programming … [more]
Title: Recent Art
Contributors
Mary Holstege
Summary excerpt: Balisage 2024 included a short-subject Open Microphone session, during which conference attendees … [more]
Title: Standards Update for QT4
Contributors
Norm Tovey-Walsh (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: Balisage 2024 included a short-subject Open Microphone session, during which conference attendees … [more]
Title: Stretching XPath: Three Testing Tales
Contributors
Amanda Galtman
Summary excerpt: This paper describes three testing situations that can be addressed by markup-technology … [more]
Title: The Donut of Equivalence
Contributors
Joe Gollner (Gnostyx Research Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Balisage 2024 included a short-subject Open Microphone session, during which conference attendees … [more]
Title: The STS (and soon JATS) Legend Element
Contributors
Gerrit Imsieke (le-tex publishing services GmbH)
Summary excerpt: Balisage 2024 included a short-subject Open Microphone session, during which conference attendees … [more]
Title: Two Paths are Better than One
Contributors
Syd Bauman (Northeastern University / Library / DSG / WWP)
Summary excerpt: Being able to execute an XPath against a corpus of XML documents is powerful. Being able to execute … [more]
Title: Using a testbed to assess XML Database Performance
Contributors
Alan Paxton (Evolved Binary)
Adam Retter (Evolved Binary)
Summary excerpt: We have reviewed the history of XML Benchmarking, and we have argued that the benchmarking of XML … [more]
Title: Variations on an Invisible Theme
Contributors
John Lumley
Summary excerpt: InvisibleXML (iXML) is designed as a lightweight context-free grammar notation to describe a … [more]
Title: Visible / invisible
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: Invisible XML seems to be attracting attention. What can we learn from … [more]
Title: Visualizing textual collation
Contributors
David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh)
Ronald Haentjens Dekker (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands)
Summary excerpt: The goal of this report is to offer a contextualized introduction of the alignment ribbon, a new … [more]
Title: When women do algorithms: a semi-generative approach to overlay crochet with iXML and XSLT
Contributors
Bethan Tovey-Walsh ()
Summary excerpt: Crochet is what we call it when women do algorithms. A crochet pattern can be quite a complicated … [more]
Title: Why are some technologies more successful than others? And why are my predictions usually wrong?
Contributors
Michael Kay (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: If asked what made XML successful, I could come up with many answers, ranging from ease of … [more]