Balisage 2008 Markup Conference

Complete Balisage 2008 Program Announced

Rockville, Maryland. The complete program is now available, including peer reviewed papers, late-breaking news, and first-person opinion papers.

Balisage 2008: The Markup Conference

Held in Montréal from 12 to 15 August, 2008)

Schedule at a Glance: http://www.balisage.net/At-A-Glance.html
Detailed Program: http://www.balisage.net/Program.html

The International Symposium on Versioning XML Vocabularies and Systems

Held in the same location on Monday 11 August, 2008

Program Overview: http://www.balisage.net/Versioning/index.html
Detailed Program: http://www.balisage.net/Versioning/VProgram.html

Topics include languages and processes for manipulating XML, the Semantic Web and semantically-based document markup, resource-oriented architectures, ontology design, schema mashups, constraint management, real-time generation of topic maps, secure publishing for social networks, managing overlapping annotations over the same primary data, the social limitation of interoperability in digital libraries, implementation of XSD 1.1 conditional-type assignment, and a host of others.

Speakers from the business and government include: BEA Systems, IBM, INRIA, Intel, Red Hat, SAIC, Sun, the World Wide Web Consortium, and the Y-12 National Security Complex. Academic speakers include representatives of Acadia University, the University of Bielefeld, the University of Bologna, Brown University, the University of Illinois, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Ottawa.

Balisage 2008: The Markup Conference is produced by Mulberry Technologies of Rockville, Maryland (http://www.mulberrytech.com/), and co-sponsored by the DC XML Users Group (http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/).

Registration discounts are available to members of co-sponsors and employees of members. The deadline for advance registration is 1-August-2008; advance registration saves $75 over on-site registration.

More details can be found at:

http://www.balisage.net

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B. Tommie Usdin                                    btusdin@mulberrytech.com
Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                        http://www.mulberrytech.com
17 West Jefferson Street                           Phone: 301/315-9631
Suite 207                                    Direct Line: 301/315-9634
Rockville, MD  20850                                 Fax: 301/315-8285

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Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See details in the news story "Balisage 2008 Conference in Montréal Continues Extreme Markup Tradition."

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