Balisage Series on Markup Technologies
ISSN 1947-2609
Volume 28: Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2023
ISBN-13 978-1-935958-24-6
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2023
Washington, DC
July 31 - August 4, 2023
Balisage is a peer-reviewed conference designed to meet the needs of markup theoreticians and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of the field. It’s all about the markup: how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space) — in short, changing the world and the web through the power of markup.
The 2023 program discusses markup in many contexts and forms: Invisible XML, ambiguity, overlap, content migration, transformation, XQuery functions in XSLT, long-term infrastructure maintenance, Gottlob Frege and SVG, and hyperlinking the journal literature. Also discussed are case studies (archive management, XML ingestion, content management systems, …), succession planning, grappling with legacy formats, rescuing legacy data, implications of AI for markup, markup and big-data analytics, the power of tight models, and surviving your best design ideas.
Sponsors
Gold Sponsor
Docugami is a Seattle-area document engineering startup that transforms how businesses create
and manage documents for greater productivity, compliance, and insight using breakthrough
artificial intelligence. Founded in March 2018 by former senior engineering leaders
from Microsoft, Docugami harnesses a wide range of artificial intelligence techniques,
including natural language processing, image recognition, declarative markup, and
other approaches, to unlock document info and radically improve how documents enhance
business processes, rather than slowing them down with tedious manual labor and disconnected
data.
Silver Sponsors
Antenna House, Inc. was founded in August of 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, as a software company, focused on
data usability. Antenna House, Inc. has led the data conversion sector in Japan since
that time. The company currently operates out of four international locations and
welcomes new partners from around the globe. For information on the full line of Antenna
House XML Products, visit www.AntennaHouse.com.
Typefi is the world’s only single-source automated publishing platform that fully integrates
print, online and mobile production in a seamless end-to-end automated workflow. Built
on Adobe InDesign Server, Typefi eliminates the need for DITA-OT/XSL-FO and enables
you to create high-quality outputs from your XML content up to 80% faster — even for
highly complex content. Use Typefi to publish in your choice of 30+ outputs including
XML, HTML, EPUB, InDesign, and perfectly designed PDFs for print and online. Separate
content creation from layout and fully automate production of all your print and digital
outputs with Typefi.
Sponsors
DeltaXML helps developers who are working with XML documents and datasets and need to identify
differences, manage change and merge documents. XML “differencing” can be particularly
challenging to implement in software, so we offer XML change and merge tools that
can be embedded in almost any product or system, using simple, well-documented APIs.
Our patented approach analyses the structure of the XML files and applies attributes to identify all the relevant differences. The outputs are well-structured XML which can be easily interpreted by automated systems or presented in documents and editing tools.
Our software is embedded into major XML tools and used by blue-chip organisations in aerospace, finance and healthcare. To find out more about DeltaXML‘s products, visit www.DeltaXML.com.
le-tex publishing services was founded in 1999 in Leipzig (“L.E.”) with a focus on scientific typesetting (“TeX”).
Over the years, other services such as production editing, copy editing, data conversion,
and XML consultancy have been added. Customers include Springer Nature, Wiley, DIN,
C.H.Beck, Suhrkamp, and several academic open access publishers. le-tex is an advocate
of open standards and open source software, as demonstrated by the conversion and
validation framework transpect.io that is based on XProc, XSLT, Relax NG, and Schematron. It converts from/to docx,
IDML, EPUB, TEI, DocBook, JATS, HTML, and other formats; and it is released under
a liberal BSD license.
Oxygen provides a comprehensive suite of XML authoring, developing, publishing, and collaboration
tools. The solutions support all the main XML-based technologies, with a particular
focus on DITA, and are designed for a wide range of users, from non-technical contributors
to XML experts.
Oxygen XML Editor, the flagship product, is an all-in-one solution for XML authoring, publishing, and development. Other tools in the suite include XML Developer for all XML development needs, XML Author and XML Web Author for authoring, Content Fusion for collaboration, and publishing tools such as PDF Chemistry and WebHelp. Additionally, Oxygen Feedback allows commenting, while Oxygen Publishing Engine and Scripting enables automation.
Saxonica implements the core XML processing technologies (XPath, XSLT, XQuery, and XSD), for
both the open-source community and commercial
customers, on a wide variety of platforms including Java, C#, C, Python, PHP, and
JavaScript. We strive to achieve 100% standards conformance combined with usability,
extensibility, and high performance. Over time we have become the recognized leader
in the field, while remaining small and (we hope) approachable. We‘re proud to have
among our users not only multinational banks, publishers, and government agencies,
but also the innovative researchers whom we get to meet at Balisage.
Co-sponsors
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