[ANN:] Balisage 2008 program announced

[B Tommie Usdin <btusdin@mulberrytech.com>]

The programs have been released for "Balisage 2008: The Markup Conference"
(to be held in Montreal from 12 to 15 August, 2008) and for the
"International Symposium on Versioning XML Vocabularies and Systems" (to
be held in the same location on Monday 11 August).

Topics include 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, XML pipelining, the social limitation of
interoperability in digital libraries, implementation of XSD 1.1
conditional-type assignment, and a host of others. Several slots have
been left open for late-breaking news.

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 represent Acadia
University, INRIA, the University of Bielefeld, the University of
Bologna, Brown University, and the University of Illinois.

The program can be found in two forms:
    Schedule at a Glance: http://www.balisage.net/At-A-Glance.html
    Detailed program: http://www.balisage.net/Program.html


The description of the 1-day Versioning Symposium can be found at:
    http://www.balisage.net/Versioning/index.html
and the detailed program is at:
    http://www.balisage.net/Versioning/VProgram.html

Balisage 2008: The Markup Conference is produced by Mulberry
Technologies of Rockville, Maryland (http://www.mulberrytech.com/), and
co-sponsored by:

    - the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org/)
    - OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured
      Information Standard, http://www.oasis-open.org/)
    - XML UK: the United Kingdom Forum for Structured Information
      Standards (http://www.xmluk.org/)
    - the TEI Consortium (http://www.tei-c.org/)
    - the Philadelphia XML Users Group (http://www.xmlphilly.org/)
    - the DC XML Users Group (http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/)


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