Balisage Paper: The Graphic Visualization of XML Documents

Zoe Borovsky is a Digital Humanities Research Consultant and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Scandinavian Section at UCLA. She works on research projects that involve digital technologies along with the developers and designers at Academic Technology Services. She arrived at UCLA in 2002 and worked as Academic Services Manager at the Center for Digital Humanities. She has a PhD in Old Norse from UC Berkeley (1994) and worked as an Assistant Professor of Norwegian at the University of Oregon for five years (1994-99) where she helped establish the Wired Humanities Project.

David J. Birnbaum is Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been involved in the study of electronic text technology since the mid-1980s, has delivered presentations at a variety of electronic text technology conferences, and has served on the board of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the editorial board of Markup Languages: Theory and Practice, and the Text Encoding Initiative Council. Much of his electronic text work intersects with his research in medieval Slavic manuscript studies, but he also often writes about issues in the philosophy of markup.

James A. Danowski is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he teaches graduate research methods and communication technology courses. He was exposed to corpora including 10 years of marked up news documents as a participant in the 1993 DARPA/NIST TREC1 information retrieval competition. His main research activities test hypotheses about the overtime associations between document semantic networks, using his WORDij software, and social/organizational network structures.