Balisage Peer Review

How does Balisage peer review work?

All submitted papers are read by the conference committee and by at least 3 members of our reviewer panel. Very clear rejections (for example, if the submission is too short to provide material for review, or totally off topic) may be made by the committee at the first stage in order not to waste reviewers' time. All others are sent for review, with author name, biography, and affiliation removed. Reviewers are asked to rate papers in a systematic way against a number of desirable characteristics, in addition to making free-form comments for the conference committee, an overall recommendation on acceptance, and (most important) providing advice to the authors on how the paper could be improved. At the end of the review period, the final selection of papers is made by the conference committee using the input received from reviewers. The advice on how to improve the paper is passed to the authors, anonymously.

Who reviews for Balisage?

Balisage reviewers have in common a serious interest in some aspect(s) of markup languages. Beyond that, they are very diverse, and include:

Authors of widely used tools and standard reference works
Practitioners who design and build information systems (of many kinds) using XML
Academics in computer science, information science, humanities, etc. who are engaged in research on markup languages from the perspective of their own discipline
Participants in the development of open standards such as XML itself, UBL, Docbook, Topic Maps, HL7, and many others

We also welcome reviewers who are not markup languages specialists, but have an interest in markup languages as part of some other area of research or practice. We are primarily interested in the markup languages aspects of submitted papers. However, markup languages are used in many different situations and we prefer to have at least one reviewer for each paper who is familiar with the context in which the author has developed his/her ideas.

Balisage Peer Reviewers

2023 Peer Reviewers

Steven J. DeRose
Peter Flynn
Amanda Galtman
Joel Kalvesmaki
Jirka Kosek
Deborah A. Lapeyre
James David Mason
Ari Nordström
Liam Quin
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
B. Tommie Usdin
Lauren Wood

2022 Peer Reviewers

Syd Bauman
Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Geert Bormans
John Cowan
Patrick Durusau
Peter Flynn
Amanda Galtman
Michael Gryk
Joel Kalvesmaki
Jirka Kosek
Deborah A. Lapeyre
David Lee
James David Mason
David Maus
Sheila Morrissey
Ari Nordström
Wendell Piez
Andrew Sales
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
B. Tommie Usdin
Norman Walsh
Lauren Wood

2021 Peer Reviewers

Syd Bauman
Geert Bormans
John Cowan
Angelo Mario Del Grosso
Patrick Durusau
David Farmer
Peter Flynn
Amanda Galtman
Tony Graham
Joel Kalvesmaki
Jirka Kosek
Deborah A. Lapeyre
James David Mason
David Maus
Sheila Morrissey
Ari Nordström
Maria Papadopoulou
Dave Pawson
Wendell Piez
Liam Quin
Georg Rehm
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Bethan Tovey-Walsh
B. Tommie Usdin
Norman Walsh
Sam Wilmott
Lauren Wood

2020 Peer Reviewers

Syd Bauman
Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Geert Bormans
John Cowan
Angelo Mario Del Grosso
David Farmer
Peter Flynn
Amanda Galtman
Tony Graham
Joel Kalvesmaki
Jirka Kosek
Deborah A. Lapeyre
David A. Lee
James David Mason
David Maus
Ari Nordström
Wendell Piez
Liam Quin
Laura Randall
Georg Rehm
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
B. Tommie Usdin
Norman Walsh
Lauren Wood

2019 Peer Reviewers

Syd Bauman
Jeff Beck
Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Geert Bormans
John Cowan
Steven DeRose
Amanda Galtman
Jirka Kosek
Deborah A. Lapeyre
David A. Lee
John Lumley
James David Mason
Ari Nordström
Evan Prince
Liam Quin
Laura Randall
Georg Rehm
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Bethan Tovey
B. Tommie Usdin
Norman Walsh
Lauren Wood

2018 Peer Reviewers

Hugh Cayless
David Farmer
Peter Flynn
Amanda Galtman
Tony Graham
Deborah A. Lapeyre
Chris Maden
James David Mason
Ari Nordström
Wendell Piez
Laura Randall
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
B. Tommie Usdin
Norman Walsh
Lauren Wood

2017 Peer Reviewers

Syd Bauman
Peter Flynn
Tony Graham
Mirko Janc
Dianne Kennedy
Deborah A. Lapeyre
James David Mason
Ari Nordström
Wendell Piez
Liam Quin
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Maik Stührenberg
B. Tommie Usdin
Norman Walsh

2016 Peer Reviewers

Syd Bauman
Jeff Beck
John Cowan
Peter Flynn
James Fuller
Tony Graham
Deborah A. Lapeyre
Deborah Maron
James David Mason
Sheila Morrissey
Ari Nordström
Wendell Piez
Liam Quin
Adam Retter
Bruce Rosenblum
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Simon St.Laurent
Kim Tryka
B. Tommie Usdin
Norman Walsh
Lauren Wood
Ann Wrightson

2015 Peer Reviewers

Syd Bauman
Jeff Beck
Hugh Cayless
Peter Flynn
Tony Graham
Betty Harvey
Alan Houser
Deborah A. Lapeyre
Joshua Lubell
James David Mason
Sheila Morrissey
Ari Nordström
Dave Pawson
Walter Perry
Wendell Piez
Liam Quin
Adam Retter
Bruce Rosenblum
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Maik Stührenberg
Simon St.Laurent
Kim Tryka
B. Tommie Usdin
Norman Walsh
Sam Wilmott
Lauren Wood

2014 Peer Reviewers

Gioele Barabucci
Syd Bauman
Robin Bergon
Michael Hahn
Alan Houser
Deborah A. Lapeyre
David A. Lee
Joshua Lubell
James David Mason
Sheila Morrissey
Ari Nordström
Walter Perry
Wendell Piez
Liam Quin
Adam Retter
Bruce Rosenblum
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Maik Stührenberg
Kim Tryka
B. Tommie Usdin
Norman Walsh
Sam Wilmott
Lauren Wood
Ann Wrightson
Mohamed Zergaoui

2013 Peer Reviewers

Gioele Barabucci
Syd Bauman
Jeff Beck
John Cowan
Patrick Durusau
Peter Flynn
Carter Glass
Tony Graham
Michael Hahn
G. Ken Holman
Deborah A. Lapeyre
David A. Lee
Joshua Lubell
James David Mason
Erik Mitchell
Sheila Morrissey
Ari Nordström
Wendell Piez
Adam Retter
Bruce Rosenblum
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Maik Stührenberg
B. Tommie Usdin
Eric van der Vlist
Norman Walsh
Sam Wilmott
Lauren Wood
Ann Wrightson

2012 Peer Reviewers

2011 Peer Reviewers

Syd Bauman
Jeff Beck
David J. Birnbaum
Eric Borduas
Cyril Briquet
John Cowan
Yogesh Deshpande
Peter Flynn
Eric Freese
G. Ken Holman
Laura Kelly
Christoph Lange
David A. Lee
Deborah A. Lapeyre
James David Mason
Sheila Morrissey
Steve Newcomb
Wendell Piez
Liam Quin
Bruce Rosenblum
Felix Sasaki
Mark Shellenberger
John Snelson
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Simon St.Laurent
B. Tommie Usdin
Eric van der Vlist
Norman Walsh
Ann Wrightson
Mohamed Zergaoui

2010 Peer Reviewers

2009 Peer Reviewers

2008 Peer Reviewers