Balisage Paper: Semantics and the Web

An Awkward History

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

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Slides and Materials

Bal2021-StLaurent-presentation-pptx.zip: Presentation slides in Microsoft PowerPoint (pptx)

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Author's keywords for this paper:

Markup; GML; SGML; XML; HTML; JSON; YAML