Dates:
- 25 March 2016 — Peer review applications due
- 22 April 2016 — Paper submissions due
- 21 May 2016 — Speakers notified
- 10 June 2016 — Late-breaking News submissions due
- 16 June 2016 — Late-breaking News speakers notified
- 8 July 2016 — Final papers due from presenters of peer reviewed papers
- 8 July 2016 — Short paper or slide summary due from presenters of late-breaking news
- 1 August 2016 — Pre-conference Symposium
- 2–5 August 2016 — Balisage: The Markup Conference
From the call:
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:
- Web application development with XML
- Informal data models and consensus-based vocabularies
- 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
- Semistructured data and full text search
- Deployment of XML systems for enterprise data
- Web application development with XML
- Design and implementation of XML vocabularies
- Case studies of the use of XML for publishing, interchange, or archiving
- Alternatives to XML
- the role(s) of XML in the application lifecycle
- the role(s) of vocabularies in XML environments
Full papers should be submitted by the deadline given below. All papers are peer-reviewed — we pride ourselves that you will seldom get a more thorough, skeptical, or helpful review than the one provided by Balisage reviewers.
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Whether in theory or practice, let’s make Balisage 2016 the one people speak of in hushed tones at future markup and information conferences.
Useful semantics continues to flounder about, cf. Vice-President Biden’s interest in “one cancer research language.” Easy enough to say. How hard could it be?
Documents are commonly thought of and processed as if from BOM to EOF is the definition of a document. Much to our impoverishment.
Silo dissing has gotten popular. What if we could have our silos and eat them too?
Let’s set our sights on a Balisage 2016 where non-technicals come away saying “I want that!”
Have your first drafts done well before the end of February, 2016!