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Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory
and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies
for structuring and managing information.
The conference takes its name from the French term for
‘markup’, in a friendly gesture towards the
city of Montréal, where for years people interested in
markup have met each August for informed technical
discussion, occasionally impassioned debate, good coffee,
and the incomparable ambience of one of North America's
greatest cities. (Despite the Francophone name, however,
conference sessions, events, and publications are in
English.)
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We welcome anyone and everyone interested in open
information, reusable documents, vendor and application
independence, and the other benefits of descriptive
markup. Participants typically include XML users, librarians,
archivists, computer scientists, XSLT and XQuery programmers,
implementers of XSLT and XQuery engines and other
markup-related software, Topic-Map enthusiasts, semantic-Web
evangelists, members of the working groups which define the
specifications, academics, industrial researchers,
representatives of governmental bodies and NGOs, industrial
developers, practitioners, consultants, and the world's
greatest concentration of markup theorists. Discussion is
open, candid, and unashamedly technical. Content-free
marketing spiels are forbidden.
If you are a markup geek and happy to be one, or if
you are NOT a markup geek but find
it informative to hang around with them
now and then, you should enjoy Balisage.
Balisage is a peer-reviewed conference.
Our electronic proceedings are freely available as part of
the Balisage Series
on Markup Technologies. To get a taste of
Balisage, visit the programs of Balisage 2010, Balisage 2009 or Balisage 2008
or browse the Proceedings' Master Topics
List.
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, integrators, archivists, document
managers, standards developers, programmers, and publishers.
Conference Committee |
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| Chair |
B. Tommie Usdin,
Mulberry Technologies |
| Co-Chairs |
Deborah A. Lapeyre,
Mulberry Technologies |
| James David Mason, Y-12 National Security Complex |
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| Steven R. Newcomb, Coolheads Consulting |
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| C. M. Sperberg-McQueen,
Black Mesa Technologies |
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Advisory Board |
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| Syd Bauman, Brown University |
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| Jeff Beck, National Library of Medicine |
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| David J Birnbaum,
University of Pittsburgh |
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| Jon Bosak |
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| Robin Cover, OASIS |
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| Steve DeRose, independent consultant |
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| Bob DuCharme, Innodata Isogen |
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| Patrick Durusau |
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| Eric Freese, Aptara |
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| Eduardo Gutentag, Sun Microsystems |
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| G. Ken Holman,
Crane Softwrights |
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| Sam Hunting |
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| Michael Kay, Saxonica |
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| David A. Lee, Epocrates, Inc. |
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| Chris Lilley, World Wide Web Consortium |
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| Yves Marcoux,
Université de Montréal |
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| Sean McGrath, Propylon |
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| Mary McRae, Virtual |
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| Wendell Piez,
Mulberry Technologies |
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| Allen H Renear, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| Bruce Rosenblum, Inera |
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| Jeni Tennison,
Jeni Tennison Consulting |
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| Henry S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh |
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| Fabio Vitali,
University of Bologna |
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| Norman Walsh,
Mark Logic Corporation |
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| Lauren Wood |
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| Ann Wrightson,
Informing Healthcare, NHS Wales, UK |
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Blogging Balisage
The tag for Balisage is
balisage (or #balisage where more appropriate).
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Questions
Email to info@balisage.net
or call Tommie Usdin at +1 301/315-9634
There is nothing so practical as a good theory
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