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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.)
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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 previous Balisage programs (Balisage 2012, Balisage 2011, 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 |
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| Chair |
B. Tommie Usdin,
Mulberry Technologies |
| Co-Chairs |
Deborah A. Lapeyre,
Mulberry Technologies |
| James David Mason, Y-12 National Security Complex |
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| C. M. Sperberg-McQueen,
Black Mesa Technologies, |
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| Norman Walsh, MarkLogic Corporation
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Advisory Board |
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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, TopQuadrant
Patrick Durusau
Eric Freese, codeMantra
Eduardo Gutentag
G. Ken Holman,
Crane Softwrights
Sam Hunting
Michael Kay, Saxonica
David A. Lee, MarkLogic
Chris Lilley, World Wide Web Consortium
Yves Marcoux,
Université de Montréal
Sean McGrath, Propylon
Mary McRae, Virtual
Steven R. Newcomb, Coolheads Consulting
Wendell Piez,
Piez Consulting Services
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
Ann Wrightson,
NHS Wales Informatics Service
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Blogging Balisage
The tag for Balisage is
balisage (or #balisage where more appropriate).
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