HTML5 and XML: Mending Fences

A Balisage pre-conference symposium (Monday August 4, 2014)

HTML5 is taking over the Web. XML and XML-based toolsets are used to create, manage, interchange, and manipulate much of the content that is published as HTML5. XMLers and HTML5ers may each find the other more than a little peculiar; but it is time to get past our differences and discuss how our differing strengths can be combined to benefit each other, our users, and the information eco-system as a whole.

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Digital Humanities at Oxford (DHOxSS): TEI Workshop

A reminder that registration for the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) will be closing in less than a month. DHOxSS is an annual event for anyone interested in Digital Humanities. There is still some space on the TEI workshop!

This year’s DHOxSS will be held on 1418 July 2014.

Register now at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2014/
Promotional video at: http://youtu.be/lBO7kT3D94A

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VOICE XML Corpus and VOICE 1.1 Online

VOICE XML is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) and includes all corpus texts in XML format as well as derived HTML and TXT versions of the corpus with reduced mark-up. For more information on VOICE XML see https://www.univie.ac.at/voice/page/corpus_availability_xml and consult
the README file included in the download package.

In addition, the release of VOICE XML also marks the release of VOICE 1.1, an updated version of the corpus that includes minor revisions in some of the corpus texts. As of today, the web interface of VOICE Online
is therefore updated to VOICE 1.1 Online (https://www.univie.ac.at/voice/page/corpus_availability_online).

We hope you will find these additional resources helpful, and we are looking forward to receiving any kind of feedback you might have (please mail to voice@univie.ac.at).

We have recently started a new subsection on VOICE-based publications on our website and would like to invite you to let us know when you (have) publish(ed) or present(ed) work which makes use of VOICE Online and/or VOICE XML.

XML Development: From Markup to Application

April 25-28, 2011, Washington, DC

Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to offer an in-depth workshop focused on Web development with XML.

Taught by experienced XML instructors and developers Matthew Gibson, Director of Digital Programs at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Patrick Yott, Digital Library Manager at Northeastern University, this four-day workshop will explore XML with a specific focus on fundamentals of design, markup, and use. Participants will use XML and related technologies in the creation of a prototype digital publication.

Topics to be covered include:

  • XML: What is it? And why should we care about it?
  • Working with content models (primarily XML Schema and some Schematron) and methods of using them when constructing and validating XML
  • Implementing methods of content transformation and delivery (using XSLT and XPath) so the XML we build can be delivered, read, and used in a variety of formats
  • Utilizing Solr, a Lucene-based search server, and XSLT to deliver the final class project

Participants should have a basic familiarity and some experience with markup (e.g., HTML, some XML, etc.).

Event Details

Dates: Monday, April 25 – Thursday, April 28, 2011
Time: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Location: George Washington University Marvin Center, Washington, DC
Fee: $1,500
Register by March 25, 2011, at http://www.arl.org/stats/statsevents/index.shtml.

Balisage 2011: Call for Participation

Balisage 2011

Pre-conference workshop: 1 August 2011

Conference: 2-5 August 2011

Hotel Europa, Montreal, Canada

Papers proposals due 8 April 2011

Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Paper proposals and nominations for peer reviewers are solicited for Balisage 2011, to be held 2-5 August 2011 in Montreal.

Each year, Balisage gathers together an eclectic mix of participants interested in markup, and puts them together in one of the world’s great cities for three and half days of discussion about points of interest in the use of descriptive markup to build strong, lasting information systems. Practitioners and theorists, vendors and users, tool-users and tool-makers, all provide their perspectives at Balisage.

Nominations for paper proposals and peer reviewers and are solicited.

As always, papers at Balisage can address any aspect of the use of markup and markup languages to represent information and build information systems. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

  • XML and related technologies
  • Non-XML markup languages
  • Implementation experience with XML parsing, XSLT processors, XQuery processors, XProc implementations, Topic Map engines, or any markup-related technology
  • Case studies of markup design and deployment
  • Recent and upcoming milestones in standards development
  • Semantics of markup languages
  • JSON and XML
  • the future of XML (if any)
  • the future of descriptive markup (if any)

Balisage is a peer-reviewed conference. Our electronic proceedings are freely available as part of the Balisage Series on Markup Technologies. Get a taste of Balisage from the proceedings of previous Balisage conferences (http://balisage.net/Proceedings/) or browse the Series Topics List (http://balisage.net/Proceedings/topics.html).

How:

More Information:

Schedule:

  • 11 March 2011 – Peer review applications due
  • 8 April 2011 – Paper submissions due
  • 8 April 2011 – Applications due for student support awards
  • 20 May 2011 – Speakers notified
  • 8 July 2011 – Final papers due
  • 1 August 2011 – Pre-conference Symposium
  • 2-5 August 2011 – Balisage: The Markup Conference

Help make Balisage your favorite XML Conference. See you in Montréal!