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
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
27 October 2021
Balisage 2021 Proceedings. The proceedings of Balisage 2021 are now available: Balisage Series on Markup Technologies
Volume 26: Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2021. Many papers have been updated since the conference to add the presenter's slides/visuals, a few additional papers have been added, and errors have been corrected in a few papers.-
Balisage 2022 Scheduled. Balisage 2022 will be held on 1 - 5 August 2022. We don't yet know if it will be all virtual or hybrid, with some in-person component(s).
The Balisage 2021 program included papers that discussed:
- Programming with XSLT and CSS
- Modeling text as graphs and trees
- Encoding semantic relationships
- Implementing useful string libraries in XQuery and XSLT
- A new data structure for Unicode strings in processors
- Yet another XML query language
- Change tracking in office documents
- The importance (or not) of order in XML (or JSON)
- Semantics on the web
- Printing with XML and CSS
- Client-side XSLT for validation and security
- How to leverage legacy systems and legacy documents, and legacy encodings
- Using non-XML structural markup in XML systems
- Refactoring large XSLT systems
- Structure constraints in XForms
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