Balisage: where serious markup practitioners and theoreticians meet every summer. If you are happy to be the person in your project who understands the angle brackets and stuff, then you are a markup geek and Balisage is the place for you. Even if you are NOT a markup geek, if you find it instructive to spend time with them now and then, you will enjoy Balisage.
Balisage:
The Markup Conference
Virtual. Live. Technical. Interactive.
29 July - 2 August 2024
Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information.
Balisage Conference News
4 December 2023
Balisage 2024 will be: 29 July - 2 August 2024.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!Key Balisage Dates:
- 22 March 2024 — Peer review applications due
- 5 April 2024 — Paper submissions due
- 7 June 2024 — Late-breaking News submissions due
- 12 July 2024 — Final papers due from presenters
- 29 July – 2 August 2024 — Balisage: The Markup Conference
The 2023 program discussed markup in many contexts and forms:
- Invisible XML
- Ambiguity
- Overlap
- Content migration
- Transformation
- XQuery functions in XSLT
- Long-term infrastructure maintenance
- Gottlob Frege and SVG
- Hyperlinking the journal literature
- Case studies (archive management, XML ingestion, content management systems, …)
- Succession planning
- Grappling with legacy formats
- Rescuing legacy data
- Implications of AI for markup
- Markup and big-data analytics
- The power of tight models
- Surviving your best design ideas
Unfamiliar with Balisage? To get a taste of Balisage, browse the Proceedings' Master Topics List by clicking on the "+" to expand the Concepts, Specifications, or Processes topics lists.
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, 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
- C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies
- Norman Walsh, Saxonica
Advisory Board
- Syd Bauman, Northeastern University
- Jeff Beck, National Library of Medicine
- David J Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh
- Jon Bosak
- Robin Cover, OASIS
- Steve DeRose, Independent Consultant
- Bob DuCharme, CCRi
- Patrick Durusau
- Eric Freese, TopQuadrant
- Eduardo Gutentag
- G. Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights
- Sam Hunting
- Michael Kay, Saxonica
- David A. Lee, Nexstra, Inc
- Chris Lilley, World Wide Web Consortium
- Yves Marcoux, Université de Montréal
- Sean McGrath, Propylon
- Mary McRae, Orbis Technologies
- Steven R. Newcomb, Coolheads Consulting
- Wendell Piez, Piez Consulting Services
- Ari Nordström, Creative Words
- Liam Quin, Delightful Computing
- 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
- Lauren Wood