Balisage Paper: Unlocking an archive of scholarly journal articles with interactive XQuery

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2026
August 3 - 7, 2026

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Slides and Materials

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Kay, M. (2026). XQuery 4.0: An XML query language. XQuery and XSLT Extensions Community Group. https://qt4cg.org/specifications/xquery-40/xquery-40.html

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BaseX (Version 12.4) [Computer software]. (2026). https://basex.org/

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Jupyter Extension for Visual Studio Code [Computer software]. (2026). Microsoft. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-toolsai.jupyter

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Retter, A., & Grün, C. (2024). RESTXQ 1.0: RESTful annotations for XQuery. EXQuery. https://exquery.github.io/exquery/exquery-restxq-specification/restxq-1.0-specification.html

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Galtman, Amanda. “Web-Based Job Aids Using RESTXQ and JavaScript for Authors of XML Documents.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2016, Washington, DC, August 2 - 5, 2016. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2016. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 17 (2016). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol17.Galtman01

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Making simple Python wrapper kernels. (n.d.). In Jupyter_client 8.9.1 documentation. https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/stable/wrapperkernels.html

Author's keywords for this paper:
Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS); digital preservation; publishing technology; XML database; XQuery