Up-Translation and Up-Transformation: Tasks, Challenges, and Solutions (a Balisage pre-conference symposium)
When & Where:
Monday July 31, 2017
CAMBRiA Hotel, Rockville, MD USA
Chair: Evan Owens, Cenveo
You need more details than that?
Ok, from the webpage:
Increasing the granularity and/or specificity of markup is an important task in many different content and information workflows. Markup transformations might involve tasks such as high-level structuring, detailed component structuring, or enhancing information by matching or linking to external vocabularies or data. Enhancing markup presents numerous secondary challenges including lack of structure of the inputs or inconsistency of input data down to the level of spelling, punctuation, and vocabulary. Source data for up-translation may be XML, word processing documents, plain text, scanned & OCRed text, or databases; transformation goals may be content suitable for page makeup, search, or repurposing, in XML, JSON, or any other markup language.
The range of approaches to up-transformation is as varied as the variety of specifics of the input and required outputs. Solutions may combine automated processing with human review or could be 100% software implementations. With the potential for requirements to evolve over time, tools may have to be actively maintained and enhanced.
The presentations in this pre-conference symposium will include goals, challenges, solutions, and workflows for significant XML enhancements, including approaches, tools, and techniques that may potentially be used for a variety of other tasks. The symposium will be of value not only to those facing up-translation and transformation but also to general XML practitioners seeking to get the most out of their data.
If I didn’t know better, up-translation and up-transformation sound suspiciously like conferred properties of topic maps fame.
Well, modulo that conferred properties could be predicated on explicit subject identity and not hidden in the personal knowledge of the author.
There are two categories of up-translation and up-transformation:
- Ones that preserve jobs like spaghetti Cobol code, and
- Ones that support easy long term maintenance.
While writing your paper for the pre-conference, which category fits yours the best?