Introducing NoXML for the Digital Humanities

Abstract

This paper argues, that a pluralism of data models is needed in the practice of the Digital Humanities. Relevant technology for different levels of model expressiveness should be made available in the form of readily usable tools and infrastructure, together with generic and discipline-specific materials that allow an informed choice of a fitting data model for specific use cases. While it is seen as a vital (and quite viable) task to ensure the interoperability between different DH projects, community-made data encoding schemas, source collections and analysis tools, there is no striking reason to restrain all aspects of those efforts to the traditional XML ecosystem. Therefore a statement is made to venture into employing novel approaches and technologies (subsumed as NoXML) that augment the current tooling by providing missing modeling constructs.