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 2022
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
19 August 2022
Balisage 2022 Was Great! It was a week of new ideas, project and case reports, learning, discussing, and some laughter.
The online proceedings, which are available to all, will be updated with speaker's presentation materials (slides) and updated versions of some papers in the early September.
22 July 2022
Preliminary Proceedings. The preliminary proceedings of Balisage 2022 are now available at: https://balisage.net/Proceedings/vol27/cover.html.
The Balisage 2022 program included papers that discuss:
- All-XSLT manuscript collation
- Readability of markup languages
- Invisible XML: exploiting implicit structure in non-XML input
- XSLT 4.0
- Long-term preservation using static HTML
- Getting XML tables and SVG charts out of Excel
- Using XProc and XSLT to migrate early Docbook into new modular HTML
- Metadata by and for creators
- Adapting markup vocabularies
- Using BITS (Book Interchange Tag Suite) for government documents
- Comparing OASIS CALS tables
- Designing languages for extensibility and forward compatibility
- Serverless searching with XSLT and JavaScript
- New XSLT function libraries
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, Orbis Technologies
- 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





