Patrick Durusau, patrick@durusau.net

Publications:

OpenXML

• Arnaud, Beavis, Butt-head and Process How misbehavior can spoil any process.
• CAP: Editorial Principles for OpenDocument Format 1.2 (version 0.1) A very rough draft of the editing principles that I think should guide my work on ODF 1.2. Comments/suggestions welcome.
• Self-Inflicted Discrimination and GPL Some forms of discrimination are self-inflicted.
• Spotting OpenDocument Supporters A guide to distinguishing OpenDocument supporters from people with other agendas or concerns.
• Competition and OpenXML A business case for opposing OpenXML. Summary: OpenXML promotes greater competition in the after market of add-ons for MS Office.
• A Place At The Table Now that ISO/IEC 29500 is at the table, what do we do now?
• A Non-Standard Guide to Standards Behavior Thoughts on how we should act after the OpenXML ballot and in general.
• Ad Hoc Rules, Process Failures and OpenXML Should the rule making and process failures of others condemn OpenXML?
• Who Loses if OpenXML Loses? Thoughts on what OpenDocument loses if OpenXML loses.
• The 6,000 Page Myth OpenXML has problems but fear mongering based on its purported size isn't helping to solve them.
• "All Their Eternity Is To Butt and Bray" Further thoughts on why my thinking changed on OpenXML.
• Genies, Peasants and NOOXML Thoughts on NOOXML and the V1 Recommendation on DIS 29500.
• On the Importance of Being Heard The Important Lesson of the BRM on DIS 29500.
• Confusion, Standards and OpenXML A preliminary response to Updegrove's apocalyptic vision concerning OpenXML.
• Co-Evolving OpenXML and OpenDocument Format Thoughts on a productive way forward in discussing OpenXML and OpenDocument Format.
• OpenXML: A Poster Child for Open Standards Development? Thoughts on the progress of OpenXML towards an open development model.

Standards

• OSIS: A encoding systems for Bible translations and other related works.
• Topic Maps Reference Model (ver. 5.0, February 2005)
• Topic Maps Reference Model Use Cases (March, 2004)

Topic Maps White Papers

• Babel and Topic Maps A "why?" topic maps paper.
• Understanding Subjects and Subject Proxies. (draft) The first in a series of papers on understanding topic maps.

Books

• High Places in Cyberspace, Scholars Press, second edition, 1998.

Articles

• "How and Why to Formalize Your Markup," in Electronic Textual Editing, John Unsworth, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and Lou Burnard, eds., Modern Language Association and Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. (forthcoming) 2005
• "Just-In-Time-Trees (JITTs): Next Step in the Evolution of Markup?", Interchange, Volume 8, No. 4, pp. 21-26. (co-authored with Matthew Brook O'Donnell)

Presentations

• Lost in a Data Sea (SBL AM 2003)
• Standards and Technology 2003 (SBL AM 2003)
• What is a tree really? (TEI meeting, November 2003)
• Just in Time Trees (UKentucy, Oct. 2003)
• SBL Technology and Standards Update (SBL IM 2003)
• Restoring the Primacy of PCDATA (XML Europe 2003)
• Implementing JITTs (Just-in-Time-Trees) (XML 2002)
• Coming Down From The Trees: Future of the Evolution of Markup? (Extreme Markup 2002)
• Visualizing Overlapping Hierarchies in Textual Markup (ACH/ALLC 2002)
• Concurrent Markup for XML Documents (XML Europe 2002)
• Scholars and Standards (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, March 2002)
• JITTs (Just in Time Trees) (New York XML SIG, January 2002)
• Implementing Concurrent Markup in XML (Extreme Markup 2001)