Fw: Call for Participation -- Balisage: The Markup Conference

[jon.bosak@sun.com]

See below for a description of the only conference designed
specifically for XML experts.

The conference will be preceded on 11 August by an
International Symposium on Versioning XML Documents and
Vocabularies.  See page 2 of the flier at

   http://www.balisage.net/Handouts/Balisage-Versioning-flier1.pdf

This will be, as far as I know, the first international symposium
to address the problem of XML versioning.

Jon

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Montréal in August has always been the place and time for serious
markup geeks to meet, and this year there's an all-new conference
for them.

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 marked-up
information.

It's an XML Conference. It's an XSL Conference.  It's a conference
about SGML, LMNL, XSL-FO, XTM, RDF, XQuery, SVG, MathML, OWL, UBL,
XSD, TexMECS, RNG, and a lot more. We welcome papers about topic
maps, document modeling, markup of overlapping structures,
ontologies, metadata, content management, and other markup-related
topics at Balisage.

We welcome papers about topic maps, document modeling, markup of
overlapping structures, ontologies, metadata, content management,
and other markup-related topics at Balisage. If you want to talk,
in detail, about XML, XSL, SGML, LMNL, XSL-FO, XTM, RDF, XQuery,
SVG, MathML, OWL, UBL, XSD, TexMECS, RNG, or any other
markup-related topic, we urge you to participate in Balisage.

How:

      Submit full papers in XML to info@balisage.net

      Guidelines, details, and schemas at
      http://www.balisage.net/submissions.html

Schedule:

     15 March 2008 - Peer Review Applications Due
     18 April 2008 - Paper Submissions Due
     20 May 2008 - Speakers Notified
     18 July 2008 - Revised Papers Due
     11 August 2008 - Versioning Symposium
     12-15 August 2008 - Balisage: The Markup Conference


If you have any questions about Balisage send email to
mailto:info@balisage.net

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Balisage: The Markup Conference 2008          mailto:info@balisage.net
August 12-15, 2008                             http://www.balisage.net
Versioning Symposium: August 11, 2008                 Montreal, Canada
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