Balisage: The Markup Conference 2014 Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, just outside Washington, DC
Key dates:
– 28 March 2014 — Peer review applications due
– 18 April 2014 — Paper submissions due
– 18 April 2014 — Applications for student support awards due
– 20 May 2014 — Speakers notified
– 11 July 2014 — Final papers due
– 4 August 2014 — Pre-conference Symposium
– 5–8 August 2014 — Balisage: The Markup Conference
From the call for participation:
Balisage is the premier conference on the theory, practice, design, development, and application of markup. We solicit papers on any aspect of markup and its uses; topics include but are not limited to:
- Cutting-edge applications of XML and related technologies
- Integration of XML with other technologies (e.g., content management, XSLT, XQuery)
- Performance issues in parsing, XML database retrieval, or XSLT processing
- Development of angle-bracket-free user interfaces for non-technical users
- Deployment of XML systems for enterprise data
- Design and implementation of XML vocabularies
- Case studies of the use of XML for publishing, interchange, or archving
- Alternatives to XML
- Expressive power and application adequacy of XSD, Relax NG, DTDs, Schematron, and other schema languages
Detailed Call for Participation: http://balisage.net/Call4Participation.html
About Balisage: http://balisage.net/Call4Participation.html
Instructions for authors: http://balisage.net/authorinstructions.htmlFor more information: info@balisage.net or +1 301 315 9631
I checked, from the conference hotel you are anywhere from 25.6 to 27.9 miles by car from the NSA Visitor Center at Fort Meade.
Take appropriate security measures.
When I heard Balisage was going to be in Bethesda, the first song that came to mind was: Back in the U.S.S.R.. Followed quickly by Leonard Cohen’s Democracy Is Coming to the U.S.A..
I don’t know where the equivalent of St. Catherine Street of Montreal is in Bethesda. But when I find out, you will be the first to know!
Balisage is simply the best markup technology conference. (full stop) Start working on your manager now to get time to write a paper and to attend Balisage.
When the time comes for “big data” to make sense, markup will be there to answer the call. You should be too.