Today's software systems are complex artifacts. This is mainly due to the inherent complexity
of the domains in which software solutions are used. This makes the software development …

The correct interpretation of markup semantics is necessary for the semantic interpretation of
linguistic expressions that use markup in their structuring and for enabling sophisticated …

Digital developments have extended the range of text objects we can reproduce and
investigate critically. Should all future texts be produced in digital or online form, or does …

Existing schema languages can lead to overdesign. They offer more choices than are
necessary for purely descriptive (as contrasted with prescriptive) situations. A potential …

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 …

We examine the conceptual model of the “bibliographic universe” presented in IFLA's
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and argue, applying ontology …

This work is concerned with the increasing relationships between two distinct
multidisciplinary research fields, Semantic Web technologies and scholarly publishing, that …

We present an approach in which the semantics of an XML language is defined by means of
a transformation from an XML document model (an XML schema) to an application specific …

The meaning conveyed by documents and their markup often goes well beyond what can be
inferred from the markup alone. It often depends on context, so that to interpret document …

Abstract Description of structural and semantic relationships and properties of, within, and
between resources is seen as a key issue in digital preservation. But the markup languages …