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	Ousía Homepage

	(c) Andreas Stöckel, Benjamin Paaßen 2015

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\import[ontology]{ontology/webpage}

\begin{webpage}{Ousía Framework - About}

\begin{masthead}
	\title{Ousía}
	\subtitle{Extensible Semantic Markup Framework}

	\begin{pitch}
		\paragraph
		\ipa{ˈuːziə}{Ousía} represents documents in purely semantic markup with
		user definable structure.

		\paragraph
		Documents are parsed into an universal intermediate representation,
		ready to be converted to any format using XSLT
		\footnote{Sticking to XML and XSLT is not our plan. We intend to provide
				  a scriptable output pipeline. But we're not quiet there yet.}.
	\end{pitch}

	\begin{nav}
		\button#btn_download[href=download.html]{Download the Source Code (pre-alpha)}
	\end{nav}
\end{masthead}

\section{Features}

Ousía is a research project and not suitable for end-users yet. However, we
provide a developer preview for those who want to try out the current state of
development. Current features include:

\dl{
	\item{LaTeX-esque markup language (OSML)}
	Ousía implements an expressive and consistent LaTeX-esque markup language
	which can be used for both document markup and writing ontology descriptions.

	\item{Command line interface}
	As reference implementation we provide a command line application written in
	C++.

	\item{Serialization to XML}
	Documents can be dumped as XML, ready to be converted to another format
	using XSLT.

	\item{Structure and Annotations}
	Ousía allows to include both: Document structure and flexible, possibly
	overlapping annotations.
}

\section{About}

Ousía Framework aims at coupling Semantic Web techniques with structured data.
This is not only of interest to the research community but to the end user as
well, due to:
\dl{
	\item{Re-usability}
	Allow to reuse of content, concepts and styles across documents

	\item{Separation of Presentation and Content}
	Document Layout can be created based on ontologies only allowing authors to
	focus on content rather than form.
	
	\item{Conversion to other formats}
	Ontologies as common interface layer facilitate the construction of
	converters and support re-using modules of other converters.

	\item{Collaborative and concurrent document creation}
	Graphical document structure provides well-defined parts that can be
	changed independently of other users.
}



\end{webpage}