Montréal in August has always been the place and time for serious markup geeks to meet, and this year there’s an all-new conference for them.

Call for Participation
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2008

About Balisage: The Markup Conference

Balisage is a peer reviewed conference designed to meet the needs of markup theoreticians and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of the field. It's all about the markup: how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space) — in short, changing the world and the web through the power of marked-up information.

When:

August 12 — 15, 2008
August 11, 2008 — Preconference Symposium on Versioning

Where:

Montréal, Canada

To Participate

We welcome papers about topic maps, document modeling, markup of overlapping structures, ontologies, metadata, content management, and other markup-related topics at Balisage. If you want to talk, in detail, XML, XSL, SGML, LMNL, XSL-FO, XTM, RDF, XQuery, SVG, MathML, OWL, UBL, XSD, TexMECS, RNG, or any other markup-related topic, we urge you to participate in Balisage.

How:

Submit full papers in XML to info@balisage.net
Guidelines, DTDs, schemas, and details at http://www.balisage.net/submissions.html

Apply to the Peer Review panel

Schedule:

15 March 2008 — Peer Review Applications Due
18 April 2008 — Paper Submissions Due
20 May 2008 — Speakers Notified
18 July 2008 — Revised Papers Due
11 August 2008 — Versioning Symposium
12—15 August 2008 — Balisage: The Markup Conference

Please help us make Balisage: The Markup Conference exciting and lively. See you in Montréal!

Debbie Lapeyre
Jim Mason
Steve Newcomb
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
B. Tommie Usdin