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 2020
27 July – 31 July 2020 … Balisage: The Markup Conference
Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information.
Balisage 2020 News
16 July 2020
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pre-conference tech-checks and social hours There will be 4 "pre-conference Tech-Testing and Social Hour" sessions. Each will include a short presentation, opportunities for questions and answers, and participant interaction. These sessions are for participants to check out the portal and their technology and connectivity; to get familiar with getting to Balisage sessions, and asking questions; a time to solve any technology problems. We hope it will also be fun!
The pre-conference Tech-Testing and Social Hours are available to everyone registered for Balisage. Access them through the conference portal (just as regular conference sessions will be accessed):
- Friday, 24 July, 11:00 EDT Session in Conference Portal
- Friday, 24 July, 15:00 EDT Session in Conference Portal
- Saturday, 25 July, 11:00 EDT Session in Conference Portal
- Saturday, 25 July, 15:00 EDT Session in Conference Portal
Balisage 2020 Proceedings The preliminary proceedings of Balisage 2020 are now available: Balisage Series on Markup Technologies
Volume 25: Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2020
5 July 2020
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Balisage 2020 will use Whova to control access to presentations, manage Questions and Answers, and provide an online social environment.
After registering for Balisage, attendees will receive information on how to register with Whova. See details at: https://www.balisage.net/VirtualBalisage.html.
The Balisage conference portal is at: https://whova.com/portal/webapp/balis_202007/.
The Interactive Schedule at a Glance provides a time-zone adjustable schedule at a glance.
The Balisage 2020 program includes papers that discuss:
- XSLT regular expressions for Unicode
- making high-quality Microsoft Word from XML
- the expressive powers of XSD schema patterns
- markup as a writing discipline
- converting typesetting codes to structured XML
- XSpec unit testing
- IDE code
- completion from XML documentation
- statistical plotting with XSLT and SVG
- XML for art
- pipelined XML transformations, and
- what can SVG learn from OHCO
and the use of declarative markup for:
- improving the accessibility of documents
- microrevisions in authorial manuscripts
- recipes (a 30-year-old promise)
- measuring document similarity
- accessibility metadata statements
- a spell-checking framework for custom dictionaries
- cybersecurity documents, and
- redesigning the Balisage Proceeding website for accessibility.
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 Tovey-Walsh, MarkLogic Corporation
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, IQ Solutions
- 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