Call for Participation
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2013

Each year, Balisage gathers together an eclectic mix of participants interested in markup and puts them together in one of the world's great cities for three and half days of discussion about points of interest in the use of descriptive markup to build strong, lasting information systems. Practitioners and theorists, vendors and users, tool-users and tool-makers, all provide their perspectives at Balisage.

Nominations for paper proposals and peer reviewers are solicited.

As always, papers at Balisage can address any aspect of the use of markup and markup languages to represent information and build information systems. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• XML and related technologies
• Non-XML markup languages
• Big Data and XML
• Implementation experience with XML parsing, XSLT processors, XQuery processors, XML databases, Topic Map engines, XProc integrations, or any markup-related technology
• Semantics, overlap, and other complex fundamental issues for markup languages
• Case studies of markup design and deployment
• Quality of information in markup systems
• JSON and XML
• Efficiency of Markup Software
• Markup systems in and for the mobile web
• The future of XML and of descriptive markup in general
• Interesting applications of markup

How:

Submit full papers in XML to info@balisage.net
See the pages Instructions for Authors and Tag Set and Submission Guidelines for details.
Apply to the Peer Review panel

Schedule:

15 March 2013 —	Peer review applications due
19 April 2013 —	Paper submissions due
19 April 2013 —	Applications due for student support awards due
21 May 2013 —	Speakers notified
12 July 2013 —	Final papers due
5 August 2013 —	Pre-conference Symposium
6–9 August 2013 —	Balisage: The Markup Conference

Help us make Balisage your favorite XML Conference. See you in Montréal!

Debbie Lapeyre
Jim Mason
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
B. Tommie Usdin
Norm Walsh