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 2020
27 July – 31 July 2020 … 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 2020 News
29 May 2020
Balisage Program Now Available
The Full Program for Balisage 2020 is now available. Late-breaking presentations have been added to the Balisage 2020 program!
Balisage 2020 Goes Virtual
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Balisage 2020 will be a virtual event for both speakers and attendees. Earlier plans for a hybrid event with an in-person component have been shelved.
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The pre-conference symposium on the role of XML in publishing accessible documents has been folded into the main conference.
Accessibility is a mainstream issue. (These talks are so good we had to have them in the main conference.)
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The conference schedule will be different. To make it feasible for people from a wide range of locations to attend this virtual Balisage, we have changed the structure of the conference schedule:
Conference days will be shorter. We will have six talks per day, not eight. People in California who don't mind getting up a little early can still catch the first talk of the day, and people in Prague can still catch the last talk before heading for bed.
The conference itself will run for five days, Monday through Friday, not four.
Details of the technical platform etc. are still being worked out. For now:
- Save the dates — it takes just as long to attend a conference in front of a computer screen as in a conference room.
- If you have already made hotel or traval arrangements, please cancel them.
- Presentation mechanics will change — the highly focused technical nature of Balisage will not change.
- Papers will be published in the Balisage Series on Markup Technologies.
The Balisage 2020 program includes papers that discuss:
- XSLT regular expressions for Unicode
- making high-quality Microsoft Word from XML
- the expressive powers of XSD schema patterns
- markup as a writing discipline
- converting typesetting codes to structured XML
- XSpec unit testing
- IDE code
- completion from XML documentation
- statistical plotting with XSLT and SVG
- XML for art
- pipelined XML transformations, and
- what can SVG learn from OHCO
and the use of declarative markup for:
- improving the accessibility of documents
- microrevisions in authorial manuscripts
- recipes (a 30-year-old promise)
- measuring document similarity
- accessibility metadata statements
- a spell-checking framework for custom dictionaries
- cybersecurity documents, and
- redesigning the Balisage Proceeding website for accessibility.
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
- 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