Balisage Paper: The Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL): schema and metaschema

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

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Slides and Materials

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

Amarel, Saul. On the Mechanization of Creative Processes. IEEE Spectrum 3 (April 1996): 112-114. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5216589 (restricted access). doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.1966.5216589.

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.

Berners-Lee, Timothy, and Noah Mendelson. The Rule of Least Power. TAG Finding 23 February 2006. http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower-2006-02-23.

Cover, Robin. Architectural Forms and SGML/XML Architectures. http://xml.coverpages.org/archForms.htm.

Flynn, Peter. Your Standard Average Document Grammar: just not your average standard. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2017, Washington, DC, August 1 - 4, 2017. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2017. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 19 (2017). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol19.Flynn01.

Global Cybersecurity Market to Eclipse $300B by 2024. Security Sales and Integration, January 17 2019. https://www.securitysales.com/research/global-cybersecurity-market-2024/.

Holstege, Mary. Metaphors We Code By: Taking Things A Little Too Seriously. 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.Holstege01.

Holman, G. Ken. The Universal Business Language ecosystem and the OASIS TC process. Presented at Symposium on Markup Vocabulary Ecosystems, Washington, DC, July 30, 2018. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Markup Vocabulary Ecosystems. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 22 (2018). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol22.Holman01.

Lubell, Joshua. XForms User Interfaces for Small Arcane Nontrivial Datasets. 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.Lubell01.

Lubell, Joshua. Integrating Top-down and Bottom-up Cybersecurity Guidance using XML. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2016, Washington, DC, August 2 - 5, 2016. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2016. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 17 (2016). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol17.Lubell01.

Modifying This Tag Set. In Journal Publishing Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.2 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019). National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) National Library of Medicine (NLM). https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/tag-library/1.2/chapter/implementor.html.

OSCAL Web site. The Open Security Controls Assessment Language. https://pages.nist.gov/OSCAL/.

Piez, Wendell. Abstract generic microformats for coverage, comprehensiveness, and adaptability. 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.Piez01.

Risk Management Framework Overview. Updated 2019. https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/risk-management/risk-management-framework-(rmf)-overview.

Sperberg-McQueen, C. Michael. What Matters? Closing keynote address, Extreme Markup Languages 2002. http://cmsmcq.com/2002/whatmatters.html.

TEI Wiki page on ODD (One Document Does it All). https://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/ODD (cited 2019 April 17).

Simon, Herbert. The Sciences of the Artifical. 1996: MIT Press. Fourth printing, 2001.

Wikipedia entry on the The Rule of Least Power (cited 2019 April 13).

Holman, G. Ken. Horses for courses: A perspective on an XML vs. JSON discussion. August 6, 2017. https://www.xml.com/articles/2017/08/06/xml-vs-json-discussion/.

La Fontaine, Robin. Making a difference by processing JSON as XML. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2017, Washington, DC, August 1 - 4, 2017. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2017. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 19 (2017). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol19.LaFontaine01.

Lee, David A. JXON: an Architecture for Schema and Annotation Driven JSON/XML Bidirectional Transformations. 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.Lee01.

Pemberton, Steven. Treating JSON as a subset of XML. Presented at XML Prague 2012. http://www.xmlprague.cz/2012/files/xmlprague-2012-proceedings.pdf.

Rennau, Hans-Jürgen. From XML to UDL: a unified document language, supporting multiple markup languages. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2012, Montréal, Canada, August 7 - 10, 2012. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2012. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 8 (2012). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol8.Rennau01.

Robie, Jonathan. XQuery, XSLT and JSON: Adapting the XML stack for a world of XML, HTML, JSON and JavaScript. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2012, Montréal, Canada, August 7 - 10, 2012. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2012. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 8 (2012). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol8.Robie01.