Balisage: where
serious markup practitioners and theoreticians
meet every August. 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 2019
30 July 2019–2 August 2019 … Balisage: The Markup Conference
29 July 2019 … pre-conference Symposium - Markup Vocabulary Customization
Cambria Hotel & Suites
1 Helen Heneghan Way
Rockville, Maryland 20850
USA
Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information.
Topics discussed in papers on the 2019 program include:
languages for markup and text processing,
multitasking in XForms,
loose-leaf publishing,
data longevity,
data interchange,
Invisible XML,
sustainability,
the Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL),
SVG,
arbitrary constraints,
parsing in XSLT and XQuery,
successes and failures,
validation,
metaschemas,
markup vocabularies,
the TEI critical apparatus model,
TEI,
digital editions,
punchlists,
tokenization of XML,
inscription,
the Model-Value-Controller model in XForms,
theory of parsing,
encoding practices,
Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP),
Brzozowski derivatives,
XForms,
SGML,
textual analysis,
standoff markup,
declarative programming,
XQuery and XSLT,
eXist-db,
data conversion,
Web sockets,
the DITA Open Toolkit,
JSON Schema,
GUIs in the X-stack,
Earley parsing,
CSS,
YAML,
rules,
XML user interfaces,
testability,
XSL area tree,
DITA specialization,
expressions,
and XML everywhere.
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, 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, Karnov Group
- 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
