BALISAGE 2011 - Balisage: The Markup Conference

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Deadline: April 08, 2011 | Date: August 02, 2011-August 05, 2011

Venue/Country: Montréal, Canada

Updated: 2011-02-25 16:36:33 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

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 infobalisage.net or call Tommie Usdin at +1 301/315-9634