Balisage Paper: What is a diagram, really?

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2020
July 27 - 31, 2020

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Slides and Materials

Bal2020-DeRose-presentation-ppsx.zip: Presentation slides in Microsoft PowerPoint (ppsx)
DeRose01-ExampleDrawing1.zip: Presentation examples

Borovsky, Zoe, David J. Birnbaum, Lewis R. Lancaster and James A. Danowski. 2009. The Graphic Visualization of XML Documents. 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.Borovsky01.

Brandes, Ulrik; Eiglsperger, Markus; Lerner, Jürgen; Pich, Christian. 2014. Graph Markup Language (GraphML). In Tamassia, Roberto (ed.). Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization (PDF). CRC Press. pp. 517–541. ISBN-13: 978-1138034242. http://cs.brown.edu/people/rtamassi/gdhandbook/chapters/graphml.pdf

Cairo, Alberto. 2013. The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization. New Riders. Cited in Quin (2015).

Cayless, Hugh A. 2008. Linking Page Images to Transcriptions with SVG. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2008, Montréal, Canada, August 12 - 15, 2008. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2008. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 1 (2008). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol1.Cayless01.

James H. Coombs, Allen H. Renear, and Steven J. DeRose. 1987. Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 30 (11), pp. 933-947. doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/32206.32209.

DeRose, Steven J. 1997. Navigation, Access, and Control Using Structured Information. American Archivist 60 (Summer): 298-309. doi:https://doi.org/10.17723/aarc.60.3.0777u1361u62tqp6.

Renear, Allen and David Dubin. 2003. Towards identity conditions for digital documents. In DCMI '03: Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications: supporting communities of discourse and practice -- metadata research & applications. September 2003. https://www.academia.edu/2796396/Towards_identity_conditions_for_digital_documents.

Durand, David, Elli Mylonas, and Steven J. DeRose. 1996. What Should Markup Really Be? Applying Theories of Text to the Design of Markup Systems. In Joint International Conference: ALLC/ACH. http://xml.coverpages.org/DurandWhatShouldTextBe-ALLC1996.pdf.

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Tomokazu Fujino, Yoshikazu Yamamoto and Tomouki Tarumi. 2004. Possibilities and Problems of the XML-Based Graphics in Statistics. COMPSTAT 2004: Proceedings in Computational Statistics. 16th Symposium held in Prague, Czech Republic. Jaromir Antoch (ed). Section: Internet based methods: 1043-1052.

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Kimber, Eliot. 2013. General Architecture for Generation of Slide Presentations, including PowerPoint, from arbitrary XML Documents. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2013, Montréal, Canada, August 6 - 9, 2013. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2013. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 10 (2013). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol10.Kimber01.

Marcoux, Yves. 2008. Graph characterization of overlap-only TexMECS and other overlapping markup formalisms. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2008, Montréal, Canada, August 12 - 15, 2008. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2008. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 1 (2008). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol1.Marcoux01.

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Peirce, Charles Sanders. 1998. The Essential Peirce. Volume 2. Eds. Peirce Edition Project. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press. Cited in Peirce’s Theory of Signs in The Standard Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Nov 15, 2010. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-semiotics/.

Piez, Wendell. 2014. Hierarchies within range space: From LMNL to OHCO. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2014, Washington, DC, August 5 - 8, 2014. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2014. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 13 (2014). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol13.Piez01.

Piez, Wendell. 2018. Fractal information is. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2018, Washington, DC, July 31 - August 3, 2018. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2018. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 21 (2018). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol21.Piez01.

Quin, Liam R. E. 2015. Diagramming XML: Exploring Concepts, Constraints and Affordances. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015, Washington, DC, August 11 - 14, 2015. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 15 (2015). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol15.Quin01.

Author's keywords for this paper:

XML; SVG; Vector graphics; Document models