Unlike the rolling dates for Obamacare, Balisage Papers are due 18 April 2014. (That’s this year for health care wonks.)
From the website:
Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information.
Are you interested in open information, reusable documents, and vendor and application independence? Then you need descriptive markup, and Balisage is the conference you should attend. Balisage brings together document architects, librarians, archivists, computer scientists, XML wizards, XSLT and XQuery programmers, implementers of XSLT and XQuery engines and other markup-related software, Topic-Map enthusiasts, semantic-Web evangelists, standards developers, academics, industrial researchers, government and NGO staff, industrial developers, practitioners, consultants, and the world’s greatest concentration of markup theorists. Some participants are busy designing replacements for XML while other still use SGML (and know why they do). Discussion is open, candid, and unashamedly technical. Content-free marketing spiels are unwelcome and ineffective.
I can summarize that for you:
There are conferences on the latest IT buzz.
There are conferences on last year’s IT buzz.
Then there are conferences on information as power, which decides who will sup and who will serve.
Balisage is about information as power. How you use it, well, that’s up to you.