How to cite this paper

Bormans, Geert. “The adventures of an early adopter.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2021, Washington, DC, August 2 - 6, 2021. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2021. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 26 (2021). https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol26.Bormans01.

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2021
August 2 - 6, 2021

Balisage Paper: The adventures of an early adopter

Geert Bormans

Geert Bormans has long been an angle-bracket jack-of-all-trades. He loves the beauty of a well-architected solution or a pure and simplified process. Geert makes a living as an independent consultant, through his company C-Moria BV, providing XML or Linked Open Data solutions, mainly to the publishing industry. He does so with a broad geographical flexibility.

Geert likes an interesting challenge, easily found when having two teenage daughters. However, he prefers the challenges to involve alpine ground, six strings, or markup.

Copyright ©2021 Geert Bormans

Abstract

This paper is a case study about bringing the entire Swiss legislation (Classified Compilation) from MS Word documents to the web in a structured way, already preparing for an XML (Akoma NToso) and PDF publication in the near future.

Built on beta software (using a specification in "last call" ), this paper will focus on what the implications were for an "early adopter".