Balisage: where serious markup practitioners and theoreticians meet every August. If you are a markup geek and happy to be one, Balisage is the place for you. If you are NOT a markup geek but find it instructive to spend time with them now and then, you will enjoy Balisage.
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2018
31 July 2018–3 August 2018 … Balisage: The Markup Conference
30 July 2018 … Symposium on Markup Vocabulary Ecosystems
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.
The 2018 program includes papers that
reflect and look forward, and that discuss the
use of markup to:
manage documentation,
visualize large XML datasets,
explore dominant and recessive heirarchies (overlap!),
examine the balance between declarative and imperative forms,
gather, collate, and analyze large volumes of web data,
consider the precise nature of relationships,
discuss making data comprehensible with style guides,
explore the role of metaphor in our understanding of technology,
teach us to think of documents as hypergraphs,
imagine new forms of stand-off markup,
consider the importance of understanding what we are trying to build,
make hard things easier,
push our favorite technologies into new places both familiar and unexpected,
scale up, and scale out.
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
- 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
