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Balisage: The Markup Conference
August 12 — 15, 2008, Montréal, Canada
August 11, 2008 — Preconference Symposium on Versioning

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.

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit consortium. The mission of OASIS is to promote and encourage the use of structured information standards such as XML, SGML, and CGM. An important part of this mission is the development of vertical industry applications, conformance tests and interoperability specifications that make those core standards useable. The XML standards developed under the auspices of W3C, for example, are made much more useful and valuable by the vertical and horizontal applications and interoperability specifications created by OASIS. OASIS does not compete with, but rather builds upon and supplements the work done by standards bodies such as W3C (for XML) or ISO (for SGML).