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.

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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