Balisage Paper: Portico: A Case Study in the Use of XML for the Long-Term Preservation of Digital Artifacts
August 2, 2010
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- Portico.XML.LongHaul.August2010.zip: Presentation slides in Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt).
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Owens, Evan, Cheruku , Vinay, Meyer, John, and Morrissey, Sheila, “Digital Content Management at Scale:A Case Study from Portico” DLF Spring Forum, Minneapolis, April 28-30, 2008, available at http://www.diglib.org/forums/spring2008/presentations/Owens.pdf (accessed 20 June 2010)
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Piez, Wendell. “Piez Beyond the ‘descriptive vs. procedural’ distinction” Presented at Extreme Markup Languages 2001, Montréal, Canada, August 5 - 10, 2001. Available at http://conferences.idealliance.org/extreme/html/2001/Piez01/EML2001Piez01.html (accessed 20 June 2010)
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