Balisage 2011 - Balisage: The Markup Conference

Balisage: The Markup Conference
http://www.balisage.net
August 2 ? 5, 2011, Montréal, Canada
August 1, 2011 ? Pre-conference International Symposium on XML Document Interchange


Montréal in August has always been the place and time for serious markup geeks to meet. Balisage 2011 and the pre-conference International Symposium on XML Document Interchange continue that tradition.

Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information.

The conference takes its name from the French term for ‘markup’, in a friendly gesture towards the city of Montréal, where for years people interested in markup have met each August for informed technical discussion, occasionally impassioned debate, good coffee, and the incomparable ambience of one of North America's greatest cities. (Despite the Francophone name, however, conference sessions, events, and publications are in English.)

We welcome anyone and everyone interested in open information, reusable documents, vendor and application independence, and the other benefits of descriptive markup. Participants typically include XML users, librarians, archivists, computer scientists, XSLT and XQuery programmers, implementers of XSLT and XQuery engines and other markup-related software, Topic-Map enthusiasts, semantic-Web evangelists, members of the working groups which define the specifications, academics, industrial researchers, representatives of governmental bodies and NGOs, industrial developers, practitioners, consultants, and the world's greatest concentration of markup theorists. Discussion is open, candid, and unashamedly technical. Content-free marketing spiels are forbidden.

If you are a markup geek and happy to be one, or if you are NOT a markup geek but find it informative to hang around with them now and then, you should enjoy Balisage.

Balisage is a peer-reviewed conference. Our electronic proceedings are freely available as part of the Balisage Series on Markup Technologies. To get a taste of Balisage, visit the programs of Balisage 2010, Balisage 2009 or Balisage 2008 or browse the Proceedings' Master Topics List.

People involved with Balisage
The people making Balisage include markup theoreticians and practitioners, data modelers, designers, architects, and both aficionados and deep thinkers. We work as software developers, system architects, academics, integrators, librarians, data miners, lexicographers, integrators, archivists, document managers, standards developers, programmers, and publishers.

Conference Committee
Chair B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies
Co-Chairs Deborah A. Lapeyre, Mulberry Technologies
James David Mason, Y-12 National Security Complex
Steven R. Newcomb, Coolheads Consulting
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies
Advisory Board
Syd Bauman, Brown University
Jeff Beck, National Library of Medicine
David J Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh
Jon Bosak
Robin Cover, OASIS
Steve DeRose, independent consultant
Bob DuCharme, Innodata Isogen
Patrick Durusau
Eric Freese, Aptara
Eduardo Gutentag, Sun Microsystems
G. Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights
Sam Hunting
Michael Kay, Saxonica
Chris Lilley, World Wide Web Consortium
Yves Marcoux, Université de Montréal
Sean McGrath, Propylon
Mary McRae, OASIS
Wendell Piez, Mulberry Technologies
Allen H Renear, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bruce Rosenblum, Inera
Jeni Tennison, Jeni Tennison Consulting
Henry S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh
Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna
Norman Walsh, Mark Logic Corporation
Lauren Wood
Ann Wrightson, Informing Healthcare, NHS Wales, UK
Blogging Balisage
The tag for Balisage is balisage (or #balisage where more appropriate).

Questions
Email to info-AT-balisage.net or call Tommie Usdin at +1 301/315-9634