Portico: A case study in the use of XML for the long-term preservation of digital artifacts

Balisage Series on Markup Technologies

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Morrissey, Sheila ^a   Meyer, John ^a   Bhattarai, Sushil ^a   Kurdikar, Sachin ^a   Ling, Jie ^a   Stoeffler, Matthew ^a   Thanneeru, Umadevi ^a  

^a ITHAKA ^*  (United States)

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EID: 84870482288     PISSN: 19472609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4242/BalisageVol6.Morrissey01     Document Type: Conference Paper

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