{"id":34,"date":"2004-06-25T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T16:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/06\/25\/authoring-xml-the-advantages\/"},"modified":"2004-06-25T09:19:37","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T16:19:37","slug":"authoring-xml-the-advantages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2004\/06\/authoring-xml-the-advantages\/","title":{"rendered":"Authoring Proceedings"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things that dis\u00adtin\u00adguishes the XML<\/span> con\u00adfer\u00adence<\/a> is the fact we pub\u00adlish pro\u00adceed\u00adings that are open to the pub\u00adlic a few months after the event, and avail\u00adable to all con\u00adfer\u00adence attendees as soon as they\u2019re processed. <\/p>\n

The speak\u00aders often com\u00adplain about writ\u00ading them, but the attendees, lib\u00adrar\u00adies, stu\u00addents, and tech\u00adno\u00adlogy his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adans always appre\u00adci\u00adate the effort. I fig\u00adure that if it\u2019s worth going through a peer-reviewed sub\u00admis\u00adsion pro\u00adcess<\/a>, pre\u00adpar\u00ading the talk, fly\u00ading to the con\u00adfer\u00adence and speak\u00ading to lots of people, then it\u2019s worth archiv\u00ading what you said in a way that people can still under\u00adstand 6 months later (which isn\u2019t the case with Power\u00adPoint or equi\u00adval\u00adent slides, which simply lack the con\u00adtext and inform\u00ada\u00adtion to make sense out of all those pretty graph\u00adics). Pro\u00adceed\u00adings also have a lot more room than a 45-minute talk, so people can add all the appro\u00adpri\u00adate ref\u00ader\u00adences, add more tech\u00adnic\u00adal dis\u00adcus\u00adsion, or bring in odd facts that they don\u2019t have time for on the podium.<\/p>\n

The ques\u00adtion is how to make it easi\u00ader for people to cre\u00adate their papers? It\u2019s always sur\u00adpris\u00ading how many people speak\u00ading at an XML<\/span> con\u00adfer\u00adence seem to have dif\u00adfi\u00adculty in writ\u00ading papers in XML<\/span> and how often we get the request to just let them use Word (hmm, shades of what I used to hear when work\u00ading for SoftQuad, but from XML-savvy people). One poten\u00adtial answer is to get more author\u00ading tools vendors to make their tools avail\u00adable to the speak\u00aders, as a way of mar\u00adket\u00ading their tools\u2019 abil\u00adit\u00adies. We\u2019ve done this in the past, with a cus\u00adtom DTD<\/span>. This year we want to encour\u00adage more vendors to make tools avail\u00adable, so we\u2019ve decided to cre\u00adate a sub\u00adset of Doc\u00adBook to be used for the con\u00adfer\u00adence pro\u00adceed\u00adings. If you are involved with an XML<\/span> author\u00ading tool pro\u00addu\u00adcer and are inter\u00adested in provid\u00ading a cus\u00adtom\u00adiz\u00ada\u00adtion for the Doc\u00adBook sub\u00adset and being lis\u00adted on the con\u00adfer\u00adence web\u00adsite, send me an email.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m being immensely helped in cre\u00adat\u00ading the sub\u00adset by Norm Walsh, Eve Maler (both Doc\u00adBook gurus), Ben\u00adjamin Jung (who does the final pro\u00adceed\u00adings pro\u00adcessing), and Philip Mans\u00adfield (who cre\u00adated the style sheets for the pro\u00adceed\u00adings sub\u00admis\u00adsion sys\u00adtem and will have some tools for cre\u00adat\u00ading pro\u00adceed\u00adings papers this year).<\/p>\n

We\u2019re work\u00ading on the sub\u00adset now; it will be announced on the con\u00adfer\u00adence web site when it\u2019s ready. We already know it will be close to sim\u00adpli\u00adfied Doc\u00adBook<\/a>, with article<\/code> as the top-level ele\u00adment, author inform\u00ada\u00adtion in articleinfo<\/code>, and cooked bib\u00adli\u00ado\u00adgraph\u00adies, for those of you who want to get star\u00adted on your pro\u00adceed\u00adings papers or your tool cus\u00adtom\u00adiz\u00ada\u00adtions early ;-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things that dis\u00adtin\u00adguishes the XML<\/span> con\u00adfer\u00adence is the fact we pub\u00adlish pro\u00adceed\u00adings that are open to the pub\u00adlic a few months after the event, and avail\u00adable to all con\u00adfer\u00adence attendees as soon as they\u2019re pro\u00adcessed.  The speak\u00aders often com\u00adplain about writ\u00ading them, but the attendees, lib\u00adrar\u00adies, stu\u00addents, and tech\u00adno\u00adlogy his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adans always appre\u00adci\u00adate \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cAuthor\u00ading Proceedings\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}