Balisage Peer Review
How does Balisage peer review work?
All submitted papers are read by the conference committee and by at least 4 members of our reviewer panel.
Very clear rejections (for example, if the submission is too short to provide material for review, or totally
off topic) may be made by the committee at the first stage in order not to waste reviewers' time. All others
are sent for review, with author name, biography, and affiliation removed.
Reviewers are asked to rate papers in a systematic way against a number of desirable characteristics, in addition to
making free-form comments and an overall recommentation on acceptance. At the end of the review period, the final selection of
papers is made by the conference committee using the input received from reviewers.
Who reviews for Balisage?
Balisage reviewers have in common a serious interest in some aspect(s) of markup languages. Beyond that, they are very diverse, and include:
- Authors of widely used tools and standard reference works
- Practitioners who design and build information systems (of many kinds) using XML
- Academics in computer science, information science, humanities, etc. who are engaged in research on markup languages from the perspective
of their own discipline
- Participants in the development of open standards such as XML itself, UBL, Docbook, Topic Maps, HL7, and many others
We also welcome reviewers who are not markup languages specialists, but have an interest in markup languages as part of some
other area of research or practice. We are primarily interested in the markup languages aspects of submitted papers. However, markup
languages are used in many different situations and it is a good idea to have at least one reviewer for each paper who is familiar with
the context in which the author has developed his/her ideas.
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