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What is Markup Language

Handbook of Research on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Library and Information Science
It is the process of defining and presenting contents through the web in a syntactically distinguishable format. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the first and basic markup language then eXtensible Markup Language (XML) came into existence as extended version.
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Semantic Web-Linked Data and Libraries
Wasim Rahaman (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9825-1.ch003
Abstract
The present society is considered an information society. A society where the creation, distribution, use, integration, and manipulation of digital information have become the most significant activity in all aspects. Information is producing from every sector of any society, which has resulted in an information explosion. Modern technologies are also having a huge impact. So managing this voluminous information is really a tough job. Again WWW has opened the door to connect anyone or anything within a fraction of a second. This study discussed the Semantic Web and linked data technologies and their effect and application to libraries for the handling of various types of resources.
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A Common Sense Approach to Interoperability
text annotated with directions to a computer on how to display or interpret the text. The name is thought to originate from the newspaper and book publishing term for the notations that book publishers use to direct human printers to get the required effect such as font size and indentation on the printed page.
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Mobile App Stores
A markup language is a modern system for annotating a text in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from that text.
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Querying GML: A Pressing Need
Language which combines text and extra information about the text. The extra information is expressed using markup, which is intermingled with the primary text.
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Web Accessibility
A formal language that describes a document by combining text with information about the structure and presentation of the text, and about the relationships between documents. The most widely-known markup language is HTML (hypertext markup language) used to format Web content.
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