Balisage Paper: Synthesis and Sustainability: The Evolution of Markup and Toolsets in the Women Writers Project
August 3 - 7, 2026
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- Bal2026-Clark-presentation-pdf.zip: Presentation slides in Adobe PDF
Caton, Paul. “Putting Renaissance Women Online.” WWP Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 1, 1998, Women Writers Project. wwp.northeastern.edu/about/history/archive/newsletter/vol04num01/RWO041.html.
Endings Project Team. “Endings Principles for Digital Longevity.” Version 2.2.1. The Endings Project, University of Victoria, 3 Mar. 2023. endings.uvic.ca/principles.html.
eXist-db authors. “Release eXist-7.0.0-beta3.” eXist-db/exist repository, 2 Jun. 2026. github.com/eXist-db/exist/releases/tag/eXist-7.0.0-beta3.
Flanders, Julia, and Fotis Jannidis. “Data Modeling in a Digital Humanities Context.” In The Shape of Data in Digital Humanities: Modeling Texts and Text-based Resources, edited by Julia Flanders and Fotis Jannidis, 15. Routledge, 2019.
IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report. UBCIM Publications-New Series. Vol. 19, München: K.G.Saur, 1998. http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf.
Holmes, Martin, Janelle Jenstad, and J. Matthew Huculak. “Introduction to Special Issue: Project Resiliency in the Digital Humanities.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 1, 2023. doi:https://doi.org/10.63744/g7c3rkvm5bzr.
Holmes, Martin, and Joey Takeda. “From Tamagotchis to Pet Rocks: On Learning to Love Simplicity through the Endings Principles.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 1, 2023. doi:https://doi.org/10.63744/dr2uaqdau4tz.
Melson, John, and Julia Flanders. “Not Just One of Your Holiday Games: Names and Name Encoding in the Women Writers Project Textbase.” Women Writers Project, Jan. 2010, wwp.northeastern.edu/research/publications/reports/neh_2008/WWP_Names_White_Paper.pdf.
Pierazzo, Elena. “Just Different Layers? Stylesheets and Digital Edition Methodology,” paper presented at Digital Humanities 2006. Abstract available at https://dh-abstracts.library.virginia.edu/works/620.
Ramsay, Stephen. “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do with a Million Books.” In Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology, edited by Kevin Kee, 111-20. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. Originally presented as a talk at Brown University, April 17, 2010.
Renear, Allen, Pat Lawton, Christopher Philippe, and David Dubin. “An XML document corresponds to which FRBR Group 1 entity?”, paper presented at Extreme Markup Languages® 2003, 4–8 August 2003. Available at https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/11931.
Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. Keynote Address. Knowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities, 16 March 2012, Brown University, Providence, RI. youtu.be/2F98I3bbOVM.
TEI Consortium. “iv. About These Guidelines.” In TEI: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, P5 Version 4.11.0, 18 Feb. 2026. tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/AB.html#ABTEI.
Witmore, Michael. “Text: A Massively Addressable Object,” in Debates in Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew Gold. University of Minnesota Press, 2012. dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-88c11800-9446-469b-a3be-3fdb36bfbd1e/section/402e7e9a-359b-4b11-8386-a1b48e40425a#p4b3.