There’s still time to submit a long paper to ACM #DocEng25: share your document-related research and submit a paper by April 29!

Short papers and demos are due June 17.

(For all categories, abstracts are due a week before).

#DocEng2025 #DocEng #DocumentEngineering
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I’m looking at a paper that discusses the most suitable resolution for scanning documents. The 10-page PDF is almost 90 MB in size. Why? Because the authors did experiments with different resolutions… and the table that lists the characteristics at the various resolutions includes the *actual* scanned page at that resolution (shown at about 2 cm × 3 cm). ⇢

#DocumentEngineering

In my talk for the 2019 #XMLPrague paper “History and the Future of Markup” http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2019/files/xmlprague-2019-proceedings.pdf#page=335 I speculated about the use of #REXX as a language for #SGML tree manipulation.

Last night I “discovered” that REXX had indeed been used for this at IBM, and Goldfarb knew about it: namely in the experimental Quill editor running on an experimental windowing system on an experimental operating system on the IBM RT PC… (see, e.g., https://doi.org/10.1145/62506.62524)

#HistoryOfComputing #DocumentEngineering

Without even blinking, Greg Brockman during his GPT-4 demo, redefines the "document" as "arbitrarily interspersed images and text."

Byebye #DocumentEngineering

The call for papers for @ACM #DocEng23 (August 22–25 in Limerick, Ireland) is out:

http://doceng.org/doceng2023/cfp

❝The 23rd ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng’23) seeks original research papers that focus on the design, implementation, development, management, use and evaluation of advanced systems where document and document collections play a key role. DocEng emphasizes innovative approaches to document engineering technology, use of documents and document collections in real world applications, novel principles, tools and processes that improve our ability to create, manage, maintain, share, and productively use these. In particular, DocEng 2023 seeks contributions in the area of collaborative work with documents. Attendees at this international forum have interests that span all aspects of document engineering and applications.❞

#DocEng #DocumentEngineering

It’s finally out now: @CerstinMahlow and my #DocEng2022 position paper on “Academic writing and publishing beyond documents.”

https://doi.org/10.1145/3558100.3563840

#DocumentEngineering #scholarlyPublishing