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Balisage 2012 Schedule At A Glance

Monday, August 6, 2012

9:00 International Symposium on Quality Assurance and Quality Control in XML

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

8:00 Breakfast
8:00 Conference Registration — Mezzanine Level outside Mont Blanc Conference Room
9:00 Conference Opening
9:15 Things change, or, the “real meaning” of technical terms B. Tommie Usdin
9:45 Type introspection in XQuery Mary Holstege
10:30 Break
11:00 Using XML to implement XML: Or, since XProc is XML, shouldn’t everything else be, too? Ari Nordström
11:45 (LB) Finally — an XML markup solution for design-based publishers: Introducing the PRISM Source Vocabulary Dianne Kennedy
12:30 Lunch
1:45 Awards and Announcements
2:00 Fleshing the XDM chimera Eric van der Vlist
2:45 Serialisation, abstraction and XML applications Steven Pemberton
3:30 Break
4:00 XQuery, XSLT, and JSON: Adapting the XML stack for a world of XML, HTML, JSON, and JavaScript Jonathan Robie
4:45 From XML to UDL: A unified document language, supporting multiple markup languages Hans-Jürgen Rennau
6:30 Beer & DemoJam Sponsored by MarkLogic.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

8:00 Breakfast
8:30 Conference Registration — Mezzanine Level outside Mont Blanc Conference Room
9:00 Contemporary transformation of ancient documents for recording and retrieving maximum information: When one form of markup is not enough Anna Jordanous, Alan Stanley, & Charlotte Tupman (LB) Using XProc, XSLT 2.0, and XSD 1.1 to validate RESTful services Jorge L. Williams & David Cramer
9:45 (LB) Design considerations in the implementation of a boil-this-corpus-down-to-a-sample-document tool Charlie Halpern-Hamu The ontologist: Controlled vocabularies and semantic wikis Kurt Cagle
10:30 Break
11:00 (LB) Meta-stylesheets: Exploring the provenance of XSL transformations Ashley Clark The MLCD Overlap Corpus (MOC) Yves Marcoux, Claus Huitfeldt, & C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
11:45 (LB) Literate programming: A case study and observations Sam Wilmott Luminescent: Parsing LMNL by XSLT upconversion Wendell Piez
12:30 Lunch
and "Balisage Bluff — an Entertainment"
2:00 CodeUp: Marking up programming languages and the winding road to an XML syntax David Lee
2:45 On XML languages ... Norman Walsh
3:30 Break
4:00 Encoding transparency: Literate programming and test generation for scientific function libraries Mark D. Flood, Matthew McCormick, & Nathan Palmer
4:45 Extending XML with SHORTREFs specified in RELAX NG Mario Blažević
7:00 Nocturnes and Impromptus: Details on site Nocturnes and Impromptus: Details on site
7:45 Nocturnes and Impromptus: Details on site Nocturnes and Impromptus: Details on site

Thursday, August 9, 2012

8:00 Breakfast
8:30 Conference Registration — Mezzanine Level outside Mont Blanc Conference Room
9:00 Documents as timed abstract objects Claus Huitfeldt, Fabio Vitali, & Silvio Peroni
9:45 (LB) A standards-related web-based information system Maik Stührenberg, Oliver Schonefeld, & Andreas Witt
10:30 Break
11:00 Utilizing new capabilities of XML languages to verify integrity constraints Jakub Malý & Martin Nečaský
11:45 Testing Schematron in the context of the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Kate Hamilton & Lauren Wood
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Lightning vizualizations Balisage Participants (perhaps including you)
2:45 Exploring the unknown: Understanding and navigating large XML datasets Micah Dubinko
3:30 Break
4:00 (LB) Moving sands: Adventures in XML ebook-land Michel Biezunski XML entropy study Hervé Ruellan
4:45 XiBIT: XML-in-the-browser interoperability tests C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (LB) Leveraging XML technology for web applications Anne Brüggemann-Klein, Jose Tomas Robles Hahn, & Marouane Sayih
7:00 Nocturnes and Impromptus: Details on site Nocturnes and Impromptus: Details on site
7:45 Nocturnes and Impromptus: Details on site Nocturnes and Impromptus: Details on site

Friday, August 10, 2012

8:00 Breakfast
8:30 Conference Registration — Mezzanine Level outside Mont Blanc Conference Room
9:00 MicroXML: Who, What, Where, When, Why John Cowan
9:45 Simplifying XSLT stylesheet development using higher order functions Abel Braaksma
10:30 Break
11:00 (LB) Developing a low-cost functional Class 3 IETM Betty Harvey
11:45 (LB) Characterizing ill-formed XML on the web Liam R. E. Quin
12:30 Things stay the same, or, the real meaning of technical work C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

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