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

January 9, 2019

Summer is Coming! Balisage is Coming! Papers Due April 12, 2019!

Filed under: Conferences,XML,XML Database,XML Query Rewriting,XML Schema,XPath,XProc,XQuery,XSLT — Patrick Durusau @ 7:52 pm

From a recent email about Balisage 2019:

Some “Balisage: The Markup Conference 2019” dates are coming soon:

March 29, 2019 — Peer-review applications due
April 12, 2019 — Paper submissions due
July 30 — August 2, 2019 — Balisage: The Markup Conference
July 29, 2019 — Pre-conference Symposium – Topic to be announced https://www.balisage.net/

Balisage: where serious markup practitioners and theoreticians meet every August.

A colleague recently asked me to share the program for Balisage 2019 to help support a request to attend. What, I was asked, will we talk about at Balisage 2019. I replied “It will be a variety of topics relating to markup, but we won’t know the specifics until May.” “Why? It seems like you should know that now.” was the response. “Why don’t you just decide who you want to talk about what and assign topics?” “Because that would not be a contributed paper conference, it would be some other sort of event!”

Balisage *is* a contributed paper conference, and the submissions from people who want to speak drive the program, the hallway conversations, and the whole tone of Balisage!

If you want to speak at Balisage 2019, if you want to help shape the conversation, if you have an idea, experience, opinion, or question relating to markup, please submit a paper to Balisage 2019!

We solicit papers on any aspect of markup and its uses; topics include but ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Cutting-edge applications of XML and related technologies
• 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
• Deployment of XML systems for enterprise data
• Design and implementation of XML vocabularies
• Case studies of the use of XML for publishing, interchange, or archiving
• Alternatives to XML/JSON/whatever
• Expressive power and application adequacy of XSD, Relax NG, DTDs, Schematron, and other schema languages
• Invisible XML

Detailed Call for Participation: https://www.balisage.net/Call4Participation.html
Call for Peer Reviewers: https://www.balisage.net/peer/ReviewAppForm.html
About Balisage: https://www.balisage.net/

For more information: info@balisage.net or +1 301 315 9631

Papers are due for Balisage in a little more than 90 days.

Anyone doing a topic map paper this year?

“If you can point to it, we can identify it. If we can identify it, we can map it. If we can map it, …,” well, you know how the rest of it goes.

Data silos continue to exist because they are armor. Armor that protects some stakeholders from prying eyes. Up for a little peeping?

November 10, 2016

XML Calabash 1.1.13 released…

Filed under: XML,XProc — Patrick Durusau @ 1:23 pm

Norm Walsh tweeted:

XML Calabash 1.1.13 released for Saxon 9.5, Saxon 9.6, and, with all praise to @fgeorges, Saxon 9.7.

You are using XML pipelines for processing XML files. (XProc)

Yes?

See also: XML Calabash Reference.

Enjoy!

July 28, 2016

MorganaXProc

Filed under: XML,XProc — Patrick Durusau @ 3:13 pm

MorganaXProc

From the webpage:

MorganaXProc is an implementation of W3C’s XProc: An XML Pipeline Language written in Java™. It is free software, released under GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2).

The current version is 0.95 (public beta). It is very close to the recommendation with all related tests of the XProc Test Suite passed.

News: MorganaXProc 0.95-11 released

You can follow <xml-project/> on Twitter: @xml_project and peruse their documentation.

I haven’t worked my way through A User’s Guide to MorganaXProc but it looks promising.

Enjoy!

May 23, 2016

Balisage 2016 Program Posted! (Newcomers Welcome!)

Filed under: Conferences,Topic Maps,XML,XML Schema,XPath,XProc,XQuery,XSLT — Patrick Durusau @ 8:03 pm

Tommie Usdin wrote today to say:

Balisage: The Markup Conference
2016 Program Now Available
http://www.balisage.net/2016/Program.html

Balisage: where serious markup practitioners and theoreticians meet every August.

The 2016 program includes papers discussing reducing ambiguity in linked-open-data annotations, the visualization of XSLT execution patterns, automatic recognition of grant- and funding-related information in scientific papers, construction of an interactive interface to assist cybersecurity analysts, rules for graceful extension and customization of standard vocabularies, case studies of agile schema development, a report on XML encoding of subtitles for video, an extension of XPath to file systems, handling soft hyphens in historical texts, an automated validity checker for formatted pages, one no-angle-brackets editing interface for scholars of German family names and another for scholars of Roman legal history, and a survey of non-XML markup such as Markdown.

XML In, Web Out: A one-day Symposium on the sub rosa XML that powers an increasing number of websites will be held on Monday, August 1. http://balisage.net/XML-In-Web-Out/

If you are interested in open information, reusable documents, and vendor and application independence, then you need descriptive markup, and Balisage is the conference you should attend. Balisage brings together document architects, librarians, archivists, computer
scientists, XML practitioners, XSLT and XQuery programmers, implementers of XSLT and XQuery engines and other markup-related software, Topic-Map enthusiasts, semantic-Web evangelists, standards developers, academics, industrial researchers, government and NGO staff, industrial developers, practitioners, consultants, and the world’s greatest concentration of markup theorists. Some participants are busy designing replacements for XML while other still use SGML (and know why they do).

Discussion is open, candid, and unashamedly technical.

Balisage 2016 Program: http://www.balisage.net/2016/Program.html

Symposium Program: http://balisage.net/XML-In-Web-Out/symposiumProgram.html

Even if you don’t eat RELAX grammars at snack time, put Balisage on your conference schedule. Even if a bit scruffy looking, the long time participants like new document/information problems or new ways of looking at old ones. Not to mention they, on occasion, learn something from newcomers as well.

It is a unique opportunity to meet the people who engineered the tools and specs that you use day to day.

Be forewarned that most of them have difficulty agreeing what controversial terms mean, like “document,” but that to one side, they are a good a crew as you are likely to meet.

Enjoy!

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.

…

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!

June 6, 2015

MorganaXProc

Filed under: XML,XProc — Patrick Durusau @ 7:35 pm

MorganaXProc

From the webpage:

MorganaXProc is an implementation of W3C’s XProc: An XML Pipeline Language written in Java™.

I first saw this in a tweet by Norm Walsh (think XML Calabash, also an implementation of XProc). We could use more people like Norm.

May 28, 2015

XML Calabash 1.1.4

Filed under: XML,XProc — Patrick Durusau @ 8:17 pm

XML Calabash 1.1.4 by Norm Walsh.

XML Calabash implements XProc: An XML Pipeline Language.

Time to update again!

Writing this reminds me I owe Norm responses on comments. 😉 Coming!

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!

January 21, 2015

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015

Filed under: Conferences,XML,XML Schema,XPath,XProc,XQuery,XSLT — Patrick Durusau @ 8:48 pm

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015 – There is Nothing As Practical As A Good Theory

Key dates:
– 27 March 2015 — Peer review applications due
– 17 April 2015 — Paper submissions due
– 17 April 2015 — Applications for student support awards due
– 22 May 2015 — Speakers notified
– 17 July 2015 — Final papers due
– 10 August 2015 — Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup
– 11–14 August 2015 — Balisage: The Markup Conference

Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, just outside Washington, DC (I know, no pool with giant head, etc. Do you think if we ask nicely they would put one in? And change the theme of the decorations about every 30 feet in the lobby?)

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:

  • Cutting-edge applications of XML and related technologies
  • Integration of XML with other technologies (e.g., content management, XSLT, XQuery)
  • Web application development with XML
  • Performance issues in parsing, XML database retrieval, or XSLT processing
  • Development of angle-bracket-free user interfaces for non-technical users
  • Deployment of XML systems for enterprise data
  • Design and implementation of XML vocabularies
  • Case studies of the use of XML for publishing, interchange, or archiving
  • Alternatives to XML
  • Expressive power and application adequacy of XSD, Relax NG, DTDs, Schematron, and other schema languages

    • Detailed Call for Participation: http://balisage.net/Call4Participation.html
    About Balisage: http://balisage.net/
    Instructions for authors: http://balisage.net/authorinstructions.html

    For more information: info@balisage.net or +1 301 315 9631

    I wonder if the local authorities realize the danger in putting that many skilled markup people so close the source of so much content? (Washington) With attendees sparking off against each other, who knows?, could see an accountable and auditable legislative and rule making document flow arise. There may not be enough members of Congress in town to smother it.

    The revolution may not be televised but it will be powered by markup and its advocates. Come join the crowd with the tools to make open data transparent.

    December 19, 2014

    XProc 2.0: An XML Pipeline Language

    Filed under: XML,XProc — Patrick Durusau @ 12:07 pm

    XProc 2.0: An XML Pipeline Language W3C First Public Working Draft 18 December 2014

    Abstract:

    This specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc 2.0: An XML Pipeline Language, a language for describing operations to be performed on documents.

    An XML Pipeline specifies a sequence of operations to be performed on documents. Pipelines generally accept documents as input and produce documents as output. Pipelines are made up of simple steps which perform atomic operations on documents and constructs similar to conditionals, iteration, and exception handlers which control which steps are executed.

    For your proofing responses:

    Please report errors in this document by raising issues on the specification
    repository    . Alternatively, you may report errors in this document to the public mailing list public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org (public archives are available).

    First drafts always need a close reading for omissions and errors. However, after looking at the editors of XProc 2.0, you aren’t likely to find any “cheap” errors. Makes proofing all the more fun.

    Enjoy!

    July 23, 2013

    XML Calabash

    Filed under: XML,XML Schema,XProc — Patrick Durusau @ 2:02 pm

    XML Calabash

    From the webpage:

    XML Calabash is an implementation of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language.

    See the XML Calabash project status page for more details.

    You can download Calabash and/or read the (very little bit of) documentation. Calabash also ships with the xml editor (as does Saxon-EE which includes support for validation with W3C XML Schema).

    A new release of Calabash reminded me that I needed to update some of my XML tooling.

    If you are looking for an opportunity to write documentation, this could be your lucky day! 😉

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