Balisage Paper: Abstract generic microformats for coverage, comprehensiveness, and adaptability

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011
August 2 - 5, 2011

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Slides and Materials

Piez-Balisage2011.zip: Presentation slides in Adobe PDF, with demonstration files.

Beer, Stafford. Platform for change: A message from Stafford Beer. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1975.

Bauman, Syd. “Interchange vs. Interoperability.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011, Montréal, Canada, August 2 - 5, 2011. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 7 (2011). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol7.Bauman01. At http://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol7/html/Bauman01/BalisageVol7-Bauman01.html.

Birnbaum, David J. Sometimes a table is only a table: And sometimes a row is a column. Proceedings of Extreme Markup Languages 2007. See http://conferences.idealliance.org/extreme/html/2007/Birnbaum01/EML2007Birnbaum01.html.

Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus. Second edition. Boston: James Munroe and co., 1834.

Clark, James, John Cowan and Murata Makoto. 2003. RELAX NG Compact Syntax Tutorial http://relaxng.org/compact-tutorial-20030326.html

Docbook. http://www.docbook.org/

Hillesund, Terje.Many Outputs — Many Inputs: XML for Publishers and E-book Designers. Journal of Digital Information, Vol 3, No 1 (2002). http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/76.

Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS). National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine (NCBI/NLM). http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/index.html

Kay, Michael. XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2008.

Kimber, Eliot. “DITA Document Types: Enabling Blind Interchange Through Modular Vocabularies and Controlled Extension.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011, Montréal, Canada, August 2-5, 2011. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 7 (2011). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol7.Kimber01. At http://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol7/html/Kimber01/BalisageVol7-Kimber01.html.

OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita/

Piez, Wendell. Beyond the ‘Descriptive vs Procedural’ Distinction Markup Languages: Theory and Practice, Vol. 3 no. 2 (Spring 2001). Also at http://www.piez.org/wendell/papers/beyonddistinction.pdf. doi:https://doi.org/10.1162/109966201317356380.

Piez, Wendell. How to Play XML: Markup Technologies as Nomic Game. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009, Montréal, Canada, August 11-14, 2009. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 3 (2009). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol3.Piez01.

Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. 1916. Trans. Wade Baskin. The Philosophical Library, 1955. Reprint New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.

Shannon, Claude F. A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell System Technical Journal, July and October, 1948. Reprint available on line at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/paper.html.

Shipman, Frank M. and Catherine C. Marshall. Formality Considered Harmful: Experiences, Emerging Themes, and Directions. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Vol 8 no 4 (October 1999). On line at http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~shipman/formality-paper/harmful.html. doi:https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008716330212.

Spencer-Brown, G. Laws of Form. 1969. Reprint Portland, OR: Cognizer, 1994.

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml