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Digital Editions beyond XML - Graph-based Digital Editions

XML has been the de facto standard for digital editions for years, but its serious limitations include an inability to represent overlapping markup and the encoding of multiple annotation hierarchies. With emerging graph database technologies we have the opportunity to develop new approaches. In this paper the advantages and modelling principles of graph-based digital editions will be discussed.

Recent Editions--Summer 2006

Santander Acquires abbey: the Jack Project

The case ‘Santander Acquires Abbey: The Jack Project’ examines the managerial decisionmaking process in 2004 prior to the acquisition of Abbey. The primary argument highlights how the strategic management of information systems is a ‘core competence’ within the Santander’s growth strategy based on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Students are asked to put themselves in the position of José María...

Medicine and the Reformation

The historiography of science is now unthinkable without a keen awareness of the interactions between science and religion. Shelves of books and countless articles have been and continue to be written about the relationship between these two great pretenders to supreme knowledge. In general, earlier suggestions that science and religion were completely inimical to one another, irreconcilable ri...

Team Formation for Reformation

The utility of the multi-agent team approach for coordination of distributed agents has been demonstrated in a number of large-scale systems for sensing and acting like sensor networks for real-time tracking of moving targets (Modi et al. 2001) and disaster rescue simulation domains, such as RoboCup Rescue Simulation Domain (Kitano et al. 1999; Tadokoro et al. 2000) These domains contain tasks ...