This pages lists some recent talks we've given and points to the slides.
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If you're not worried about the long-term preservation of digital content ... you probably should be. If you plan to preserve digital objects by converting them to current formats, is it possible to prove (at least in theory) that the conversion loses no information? Not with proprietary data formats, it's not.
This talk was given in Urbana, Illinois, in May 2009. as part of the Summer Institute for Humanities Data Curation organized as part of the Data Curation Education Program by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Some thoughts about how to improve the chances that your digital materials will survive into the future without being lost, garbled, or misunderstood.
A talk given (in slightly different forms) both at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., in June 2009, and at the Summer XML 2009 conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, in July 2009.
A presentation given (together with Claus Huitfeldt of the University of Bergen and Yves marcoux of the Université de Montréal) in College Park, Maryland, in June 2009, at Digital Humanities 2009, the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.
Further work on a formal model of transcription, following up from our initial work (presented at DH2007).
A talk given at the Summer XML 2009 conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, in July 2009.
A survey of changes included in the new version of W3C's XML Schema Definition Language (XSD).
A flying survey, with links, of open-source software for XML, prepared for the XML Summer School in Oxford organized by Eleven Informatics, September 2009. Someday I hope to turn this into a regularly updated resource; in the meantime, these links may be useful.
An introduction to three techniques for putting the user's browser to work on XML: serving XML with a link to an XSLT stylesheet; running XSLT from Javascript; XForms. Prepared for the XML Summer School in Oxford organized by Eleven Informatics, September 2009.
20 January 2010