Balisage: The Markup Conference
August 12 — 15, 2008, Montréal, Canada
August 11, 2008 — Preconference Symposium on Versioning
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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.
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.
It's an XML Conference. It's an XSL Conference. It's a conference about SGML, LMNL, XSL-FO, XTM, RDF, XQuery, SVG, MathML, OWL, UBL, XSD, TexMECS, RNG, and a lot more. We welcome papers about topic maps, document modeling, markup of overlapping structures, ontologies, metadata, content management, and other markup-related topics at Balisage.
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Why ? Because that’s the way we say “Markup” in Montréal! “Balisage” is electronic text encoding, especially in the form of markup such as
XML or HTML; more generally, it means ‘signaling’ or ‘marking’, especially with
lights, such as runway lighting, lighted buoys, or dim roadside lights that permit almost daylight speed while driving at night.
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We should probably point out explicitly that although the
name of the conference is French, the working language of
the conference will be English.
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People involved with Balisage
The people making Balisage include markup theoreticians, practitioners, data modelers, developers, and aficionados. We work as software developers, academics, librarians, system architects, lexicographers, integrators, archivists, document managers, standards developers, and programmers.
Conference Committee |
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B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies |
| Co-Chairs | Deborah A. Lapeyre, Mulberry Technologies |
| James David Mason, Y-12 National Security Complex |
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| Steven R. Newcomb, Coolheads Consulting |
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| C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, World Wide Web Consortium/MIT Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) |
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Advisory Board
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Syd Bauman, Brown University |
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| Jeff Beck, National Library of Medicine |
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| David J Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh |
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| Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems |
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| Robin Cover, OASIS |
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| Steve DeRose, independent consultant |
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| Bob DuCharme, Innodata Isogen |
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| Patrick Durusau |
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| Eduardo Gutentag, Sun Microsystems |
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| G. Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights |
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| Sam Hunting |
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| Michael Kay, Saxonica |
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| Chris Lilley, World Wide Web Consortium |
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| Sean McGrath, Propylon |
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| Mary McRae, OASIS |
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| Wendell Piez, Mulberry Technologies |
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| Allen H Renear, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| Bruce Rosenblum, Inera |
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| Jeni Tennison, Jeni Tennison Consulting |
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| Henry S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh |
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| Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna |
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| Norman Walsh, Sun Microsystems |
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| Lauren Wood |
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| Ann Wrightson, CSW Group |
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Conference Community Site
Concrete Syntax (www.concretesyntax.com) is the place for attendees and speakers to discover other attendees,
blog about conferences, Montreal, XML matters, great food, and more! Concrete Syntax is a multi-conference discussion site, managed and maintained independently of Balisage.
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Blogging Balisage
The tags for this conference are
balisageConference08, and for the conference series,
balisageConference. Use these tags freely in your blogs (including the Community Site) and on photo sharing
sites such as Flickr,
so that Balisage news can be picked up by blog aggregators and by engines such as Technorati.
The management of Balisage are not responsible for anything posted on any of these independent sites.
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Questions
Email to info@balisage.net
or call Tommie Usdin at +1 301/315-9634
There is nothing so practical as a good theory
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