Balisage Paper: Do we really want to see markup?

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2019
July 30 - August 2, 2019

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Slides and Materials

Mason-Balisage-2019-slides.zip: Presentation slides in Adobe PDF

AT&T Bell Laboratories (and later modifiers). groff_mm man page. https://www.mankier.com/7/groff_mm.

Bryan, Martin. SGML: An Author's Guide. New York: Addison-Wesley (1988).

Graphic Communications Association. GCA Standard 101-1983, GENCODE and the Standard Generalized Markup Language.

Goldfarb, Charles, and Yuri Rubinski. The SGML Handbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1990).

Horak, Wolfgang, and Guenther Kroenert (1983). "Techniques for Preparing and Interchanging Mixed Text-Image Documents at Multifunctional Workstations", Siemens Forschungs- und Entwicklungsberichte/Siemens Research and Development Reports. 12. 61-69. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282210430_TECHNIQUES_FOR_PREPARING_AND_INTERCHANGING_MIXED_TEXT-IMAGE_DOCUMENTS_AT_MULTIFUNCTIONAL_WORKSTATIONS.

International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission. ISO/IEC 8613-1:1994, Information technology—Open Document Architecture (ODA) and interchange format: Introduction and general principles, https://www.iso.org/standard/15928.html.

International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission. ISO/IEC 8613-2:1994, Information technology—Open Document Architecture (ODA) and interchange format: Open Document Interchange Format, https://www.iso.org/standard/23410.html.

International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission. ISO/IEC 8879:1986, Information processing—Text and office systems—Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), https://www.iso.org/standard/16387.html.

International Telecommunication Union, Abstract Syntax Notation 1, ASN.1, X-680 series, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Syntax_Notation_One).

International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34, Document description and processing languages, https://www.iso.org/committee/45374.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_JTC_1/SC_34.

Marcoux, Yves, and Martin Sévigny. Why SGML? Why Now?. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48, No. 7, July 1997, p. 584.

Pemberton, Steven. Invisible XML. 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.Pemberton01.

Pemberton, Steven. Data Just Wants to Be Format-Neutral. Presented at XML Prague, 2016, Prague, Czech Republic. Proceedings of XML Prague 2016, pp. 109–120. http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2016/files/xmlprague-2016-proceedings.pdf, https://homepages.cwi.nl/%7Esteven/Talks/2016/02-12-prague/data.html.

St. Laurent, Simon. Regular fragmentations: Treating complex textual content as markup. Paper given at Extreme Markup Languages 2001, Montréal, sponsored by IDEAlliance. Abstract on the Web at http://conferences.idealliance.org/extreme/html/2001/StLaurent01/EML2001StLaurent01.html.

Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. Aparecium: An XQuery / XSLT library for invisible XML. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2019, Washington, DC, July 30 – August 2, 2019. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2019. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 23 (2019). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol23.Sperberg-McQueen01.