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

Pre-conference events 31 July – 1 August 2021


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

11 June 2021

  • pre-conference events added to Balisage schedule. Balisage will host dress rehearsals and social time on both the Saturday and Sunday before the conference. Balisage is using the Whova Conference Portal, which is unfamiliar to some attendees and has changed since some of us used it last year at Balisage. In order to provide an opportunity for us all to figure out how the portal works, and to stretch Balisage into a full week, we will do "Dress Rehearsals" on the Saturday and Sunday before the conference. Each Dress Rehearsal will start with some social time including coaching to help people get logged in to Whova, a conference talk, a Q&A session, and some small group social time. The Balisage 2021 program has been updated to include several late-breaking new items.

  • Late-breaking News added to Balisage 2021 Program The Balisage 2021 program has been updated to include several late-breaking new items.

  • 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!


The Balisage 2021 program includes papers that discuss:

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