Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

February 2, 2016

Balisage 2016, 2–5 August 2016 [XML That Makes A Difference!]

Filed under: Conferences,XLink,XML,XML Data Clustering,XML Schema,XPath,XProc,XQuery,XSLT — Patrick Durusau @ 9:47 pm

Call for Participation

Dates:

  • 25 March 2016 — Peer review applications due
  • 22 April 2016 — Paper submissions due
  • 21 May 2016 — Speakers notified
  • 10 June 2016 — Late-breaking News submissions due
  • 16 June 2016 — Late-breaking News speakers notified
  • 8 July 2016 — Final papers due from presenters of peer reviewed papers
  • 8 July 2016 — Short paper or slide summary due from presenters of late-breaking news
  • 1 August 2016 — Pre-conference Symposium
  • 2–5 August 2016 — Balisage: The Markup Conference

From the call:

Balisage is the premier conference on the theory, practice, design, development, and application of markup. We solicit papers on any aspect of markup and its uses; topics include but are not limited to:

  • Web application development with XML
  • Informal data models and consensus-based vocabularies
  • Integration of XML with other technologies (e.g., content management, XSLT, XQuery)
  • Performance issues in parsing, XML database retrieval, or XSLT processing
  • Development of angle-bracket-free user interfaces for non-technical users
  • Semistructured data and full text search
  • Deployment of XML systems for enterprise data
  • Web application development with XML
  • Design and implementation of XML vocabularies
  • Case studies of the use of XML for publishing, interchange, or archiving
  • Alternatives to XML
  • the role(s) of XML in the application lifecycle
  • the role(s) of vocabularies in XML environments

Full papers should be submitted by the deadline given below. All papers are peer-reviewed — we pride ourselves that you will seldom get a more thorough, skeptical, or helpful review than the one provided by Balisage reviewers.

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Whether in theory or practice, let’s make Balisage 2016 the one people speak of in hushed tones at future markup and information conferences.

Useful semantics continues to flounder about, cf. Vice-President Biden’s interest in “one cancer research language.” Easy enough to say. How hard could it be?

Documents are commonly thought of and processed as if from BOM to EOF is the definition of a document. Much to our impoverishment.

Silo dissing has gotten popular. What if we could have our silos and eat them too?

Let’s set our sights on a Balisage 2016 where non-technicals come away saying “I want that!”

Have your first drafts done well before the end of February, 2016!

February 14, 2015

XML Calabash version 1.0.25

Filed under: XLink,XML,XProc — Patrick Durusau @ 7:57 pm

XML Calabash version 1.0.25 by Norm Walsh.

New release of Calabash as of 10 February 2015.

Updated to support XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.1, which was a last call working draft on 16 December 2014.

Time to update your XML toolkit again!

November 20, 2014

Video: Experts Share Perspectives on Web Annotation

Filed under: Annotation,Hypertext,XLink — Patrick Durusau @ 4:15 pm

Video: Experts Share Perspectives on Web Annotation by Gary Price.

From the post:

The topic of web annotation continues to grow in interest and importance.

Here’s how the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) describes the topic:

Web annotations are an attempt to recreate and extend that functionality as a new layer of interactivity and linking on top of the Web. It will allow anyone to annotate anything anywhere, be it a web page, an ebook, a video, an image, an audio stream, or data in raw or visualized form. Web annotations can be linked, shared between services, tracked back to their origins, searched and discovered, and stored wherever the author wishes; the vision is for a decentralized and open annotation infrastructure.

A Few Examples

In recent weeks and months a WC3 Web Annotation working group got underway, Hypothes.is, a company that has been working in this area for several years (and one we’ve mentioned several times on infoDOCKET) formally launched a web annotation extension for Chrome, the Mellon Foundation awarded $750,000 in research funding, and The Journal of Electronic Publishing began offering annotation for each article in the publication.

New Video

Today, Hypothes.is posted a 15 minute video (embedded below) where several experts share some of their perspectives (Why the interest in the topic? Biggest Challenges, Future Plans, etc.) on the topic of web annotation.

The video was recorded at the recent W3C TPAC 2014 Conference in Santa Clara, CA.

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I am puzzled by more than one speaker on the video referring to the lack of robust addressing as a reason why annotation has not succeeded in the past. Perhaps they are unaware of the XLink and XPointer work at the W3C? Or HyTime for that matter?

True, none of those efforts were widely supported but that doesn’t mean that robust addressing wasn’t available.

I for one will be interested in comparing the capabilities of prior efforts against what is marketed as “new web annotation” capabilities.

Annotation, particularly what was known as “extended XLinks” is very important for the annotation of materials to which you don’t have read/write access. Think about annotating texts distributed by a vendor on DVD. Or annotating text that are delivered over a web stream. A separate third-party value-add product. Like a topic map for instance.

See videos from I Annotate 2014

September 2, 2013

W3C Cheatsheet

Filed under: W3C,XLink,XML — Patrick Durusau @ 7:07 pm

W3C Cheatsheet

You can see the cheatsheet in action or look at the developer documentation.

Interesting resource but needs wider coverage.

Do you recall a Windows executable that was an index of all the XML standards? I remember it quite distinctly but haven’t seen it in years now. Freeware product with updates.

I will look on old external drives and laptops to see if I have a copy.

It would be very useful to have a complete index to W3C work with scoping by version and default to the latest “official” release.

June 25, 2013

W3C Open Annotation: Status and Use Cases

Filed under: Annotation,HyTime,XLink — Patrick Durusau @ 12:44 pm

W3C Open Annotation: Status and Use Cases by Robert Sanderson and Paolo Ciccarese.

Presentation slides from OAI8: Innovations in Scholarly Communication, June 19-21 2013, Geneva, Switzerland.

For more details about the OpenAnnotation group: http://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/

Annotation, particularly if data storage becomes immutable, will become increasingly important.

Perhaps a revival of HyTime-based addressing or a robust version of XLink is in the offing.

As we have recently learned from the NSA, “web scale” data isn’t very much data at all.

Our addressing protocols should not be limited to any particular data subset.

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