Papers and presentations
All my work is authored in XML and produced using XML/XSLT technologies.
This is a more or less comprehensive listing of papers, projects and presentations at public venues or on line:
IDEAlliance XML conferences
- “Separating Mapping from Coding in Transformation Tasks.” XML 2007, Boston, Massachussetts. November 2007. (Authored with B. Tommie Usdin.)
- “XSLT Throughout the Document Lifecycle.” XML 2005, Atlanta, Georgia. November 2005.
- “Way Beyond Powerpoint.” XML 2004, Washington DC. November 2004.
- Here's an HTML version with SVG. These are essentially improved speaker's notes with stage directions, bundled with a bunch of SVG and supporting files, delivered as a .zip. (But the SVG is tuned for the Adobe SVG Viewer, then current but now no longer easy to find.)
- A more formal prose version in the conference proceedings.
- This presentation won a Best Speaker Award.
- An early version was presented at ALLC/ACH 2004 (Gothenburg, Sweden).
- “XSLT for Quality Checking in an XML workflow.” XML 2003, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 2003.
- “From HTML to XML.” (Tutorial.) XML 2001, Orlando, Florida. December 2001.
Extreme Markup Languages (2001-2007), Montreal QC
- See all my papers at Extreme Proceedings
- Also, mirrored here, see:
- Human and Machine Sign Systems.
- Beyond the “descriptive vs. procedural” distinction. This paper was also printed in Markup Languages: Theory and Practice, Vol. 3 no. 2 (Spring 2001).
- In addition, I was the lead designer and engineer of the Extreme Proceedings site.
ACH/ALLC and Digital Humanities Events
I've presented papers, posters and demonstrations at ACH/ALLC conferences in Bergen, Norway (1996); Glasgow, Scotland (2000); Tuebingen, Germany (2002); Athens GA (2003); Gothenburg, Sweden (2004); Victoria BC (2005); Urbana-Champaign IL (2006).
The Tuebingen poster documented my Amsel project, a little proto-AJAX application I made as a demonstration of the capabilities of XML behind a web browser interface for language study, presenting a dynamic facing translation.
I've also spoken at the TEI Members' Meetings in Chicago IL (2002) on “TEI Beyond the Tag Set” and College Park MD (2007) on “Schema as Markup as Theory”.
Other conferences
In addition to numerous appearances not documented here, I gave a keynote address at TriXML 2004 (Raleigh NC) on “XML in the Real World”
LMNL (the Layered Markup and Annotation Language)
More details on the LMNL & Overlap page.
And see the LMNL wiki.
Miscellaneous projects and writings
- XML on a Shoestring is a demonstration of server-side XML/XSLT technologies (but is currently down for maintenance and rethinking).
- The Sonneteer is an application of XML/XSLT in representing poetic form.
- The Hymn to Mercury (1994).
- Translations of Ivan Goll with Martin Kohtes.
- Some Trickster Tales.
- I designed and implemented a web site for my friend the artist Barbara Chapman, at barbarachapmanart.com.
Pet Theories
You'll have to ask me personally if you want to hear my theory of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings as a parable about proprietary technology.
I have conceptualized an approach to driving on the US Interstate Highway system based on Micronesian navigation. It won't get you there faster, but it will get you there better.
And here's an older thing: a brief metaphysical excursus on the science or art of divination. Divination is the proper and natural application of this technology we call the Internet.