Balisage Paper: Beyond Eighteen Wheels

Considerations in Archiving Documents Represented Using the Extensible Markup Language

International Symposium on XML for the Long Haul: Issues in the Long-term Preservation of XML
August 2, 2010

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Slides and Materials

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Applen, J. D. and McDaniel, Rudy, “The Rhetorical Nature of XML,” Rouledge, 2009.

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(to be supplied; a number of references were consulted)

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“Born-Again Bits: A Framework for Migrating Electronic Literature,” Alan Liu, David Durand, Nick Montfort, Merrilee Proffitt, Liam R. E. Quin, Jean-Hugues Réty, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin 2005, online at www.eliterature.org/pad/bab.html and accessed July 2010

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Moxon, Joseph, “Mechanick exercises on the whole art of printing,” 1683/4.

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Wooley, Benjamin, “The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I,” Holt, 2002 (not itself a scholarly book but a good and clear introduction to the topic).

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The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB), available at xcb.freedesktop.org, accessed July 2010.

Author's keywords for this paper:
Archiving; Long Term Storage