GML (written in1969), an IBM project to write text into files for computers to display in a better formatted style
GML gave birth to SGML, which gave birth to HTML and XML
“Our tools were based on presumptions that simply were not true anymore”
"Content is not hierarchical"
Can we come up with a better mental model for thinking about content?
We can write code that does this but it's not reproducible.
Example of manually edited document: The "content" is the printed material and the notes taken over in pen fit in … where?
JSON, content, annotations: “Contents” distinct from “annotations” in JSON format.
Here’s a simplified version:
{
contents: “Main text document goes here etc etc etc”,
annotations: [
{ position: 4, text: “Change this” }
{ position: 12, text: “I like this” }
]
}
Theoretically possible for transcript/audio data too.
Not a standard format – ”I’m allergic to standards”
Even the format Blaine showed on screen is “massively simplified”