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 2021

2 – 6 August 2021 … 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

4 March 2021

  • Call for Participation. The Balisage 2021 Call for Participation is now open. Full papers, in XML, are due by 2 April 2021. Papers will be peer reviewed, and authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to revise their papers taking into consideration the comments of the peer reviewers.

  • Balisage 2021 will be Virtual. All sessions, conversations, social events, and other conference-related activities will be online.

  • Balisage 2021 will be all Live. All paper presentations, discussions, question and answer sessions, and social events will be live; there will be no recorded or canned content at Balisage 2021. Similarly, we will not save recordings of the conference events. The permanent record of Balisage 2021 will be in the conference proceedings: the Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.

    If you want to be there you need to be there!

  • Balisage 2020 Proceedings. The proceedings of Balisage 2020 are now available: Balisage Series on Markup Technologies
    Volume 25: Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2020    . 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.


The Balisage 2020 program included papers that discussed:

and the use of declarative markup for:

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, 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

There is nothing so practical as a good theory