A formal approach to XML semantics: implications for archive standards

Abstract

Previous literature characterizing XML semantics (Sperberg-McQueen et al. 2000, Renear et al. 2002, Piez 2002) takes reasonably syntactically and semantically plausible markup and/or schemas as a starting point. In contrast, for this paper we aim to work towards such a schema as an idealized end goal, by characterizing the necessary— if not sufficient— semantic constraints that differentiate a schema intended for archival use from nonsense and implausible schemas, as well as schemas that fail to sufficiently take semantics into account. In addition to the goal of providing a novel approach to the perenially thorny problem of XML semantics, we are particularly concerned with the interaction between the goals of archival purposes and XML semantics.

Proyecto de web semántica de autoridades en PARES: extracción y análisis inicial

“…En la fuente mencionada los datos están expresados con el lenguaje XML, capa de los datos en las capas de la arquitectura semántica, con el estándar Encoded Archival Context -Corporate bodies, Persons and Families (EAC-CPF, RiC-E4 agrupados como Agent) (Society of American Archivists, 2011). Por lo tanto, XML es una tecnología que cumple su papel tan orientado a los datos, a falta de considerar la necesidad expresarse con vocabularios que cuente con una semántica que perdure a largo plazo (Dombrowski & Dombrowski, 2010).…”