Dave Dubin attended IFCS (International Federation of Classification Societies) meeting where with David Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh) he presented "Measuring Similarity in the Contents of Medieval Miscellany Manuscripts."
Allen Renear is just back from Snowbird, Utah where he represented GSLIS at the annual meeting of the Computing Research Association.
Dave Dubin attended and participated in the NSF / NSDL Workshop on June 14-15, 2004. (A PDF of the agenda can be found here.) The National Science Digital Library is comprised of digitial library projects from various sectors and disciplines which are closely involved with the use of one or more scientific markup languages (MLs).
Allen Renear flew to Sweden to present a paper to the ALLC / ACH 2004 (Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities) conference on June 11th - 16th at Goteborg Univesity.
Claus Huitfeldt, Associate Professor in philosophy at Bergen University, Norway, and a GSLIS Faculty Fellow, arrived for a three week visit to pursue research on topics in the theory of text encoding with members of the GSLIS Electronic Publishing Research Group.
Huitfeldt is a well-known specialist in philosophical topics in text encoding and has a wide range of practical experience as well. Prior to his current position at Bergen he served as Project Director of the Norwegian Wittgenstein Project, as Director of the Wittgenstein Archives in Bergen, and as Director of Research at the Bergen's Humanities Information Technologies Research Programme. Most recently he has been collaborating with Michael Sperberg-McQueen (MIT/W3C), Allen Renear, and Dave Dubin, on the BECHAMEL document markup semantics project. His book on text encoding is scheduled to be published by MIT Press next year.
Allen lectured at Brown University at an international seminar entitled Online Resourses for the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. The lecture was on Saturday, May 8th at 11:15 - 12:30 pm.
Dave Dubin presented a lecture entitled "Semantic Markup or Markup Semantics?" to the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburg as part of the SIS Faculty Candidate Colloqium Series. The presentation was scheduled for Monday, March 22 from 11:00 am - 12:00 noon. Dave talked about the BECHAMEL project. PDF slides can be found here.
Dr. Allen Renear traveled to Nancy, France to sip espressos and attend the third annual Text Encoding Initiative Consortium Members' Meeting. The meeting was conducted at ATILF, the nationally-funded laboratory for analysis and data processing of the French language, based at the University of Nancy, France, on the 7th and 8th of November 2003.
"Introduction to TEI", a two-day hands-on workshop, was offered on Sat., Oct. 25, and Sun., Oct. 26. Participants learned how to create their own XML documents. No prior experience was expected. The instructors, Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman, work at the Brown University Scholarly Technology Group on its major text encoding effort, the Women Writers Project. They are both involved in the activites of the TEI and of the Association for Computers and the Humanities
By "identity conditions" we mean a method for determining whether an object x and an object y are the same object. Identity conditions are arguably an essential feature of any rigorously developed conceptual framework for information modeling. Surprisingly, the concept of same document, which is fundamental to many aspects of library and information science, and to digital libraries in particular, has received little systematic analysis. As a result, not only is the concept of a document itself under-theorized, but progress on a number of important practical problems has been hindered. We review the importance of document identity conditions, demonstrate problems with current approaches, and discuss the general form a solution must take.
Published in the Dublin Core 2003 conference proceedings.
A sample implementation using a current in XSLT XML Literate Programming tool will be discussed. 3 key enabling technologies will be introduced and defended as good choices for a general purpose XML schema construction tool: the RELAX NG XML schema language, the Namespace Routing Language (NRL), which allows for validation of document instances consisting of elements from different namespaces,and the Trang multi-schema conversion tool. For background please consult the poster presented at Extreme Markup Languages. Presentation Slides: HTML | SVG
The EPRG goes Extreme!
Several EPRG members presented at the Extreme Markup Languages Conference in Montreal, QC on August 4th-8th.
Allen Renear First thoughts on modal logic for document processing
David Dubin Object mapping for markup semantics
Allen Renear, Christopher Phillippe, David Dubin & Pat Lawton An XML document corresponds to which FRBR group 1 entity?
Michael Sperberg-McQueen Logic grammars and XML schema
Student Posters: Kevin Reiss, "DSS: A 3-Layer Approach to XML Schema Constrution Using Literate Programming"; Kevin Hawkins, "Theoretical Issues in Text Encoding -- A Critical Review"; and Jin Ha Lee, "XML Representation Schemes for Music."
