Balisage 2009 Program Announced

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

Balisage 2009 Program Announced

[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE]

Rockville, Maryland.  The organizing committee has released the
program for "Balisage 2009: The Markup 
Conference" to be held in Montreal from 11 to 14 
August, 2009.

The program can be found in two forms:
    Schedule at a Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2009/At-A-Glance.html
    Detailed program: http://www.balisage.net/2009/Program.html

Topics include: design of tools for writing XML 
and ways to hide XML from authors; XML processing 
pipelines; encoding multiple versions of 
documents, theory of document versioning, and 
change management in a complex XML environment; 
creating XSD schemas from UML; linking, 
namespaces, vocabularies, and a variety of 
XML-related specifications including Schematron, 
XSLT, XPath, & XForms and a host of others. 
Several slots have been left open for 
late-breaking news.

Speakers from business and government include representatives of:
Appolux, Mark Logic, Saxonica, National Archives 
and Records Adminstration, Mulberry Technologies, 
Electronic Commerce Connection, Black Mesa 
Technologies, Ramsey Systems, XML Solutions, 
Informing Healthcare (NHS Wales), Xerox Research 
Centre Europe, National Institute of Standards 
and Technology, Fujitsu America, Document 
Engineering Services, and Oracle.

Speakers from the academic world include people from:
Université de Montréal, W3C, University of 
Bergen, University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign, Bielefeld University, 
Technische Universität München, Institute for the 
German Language (Mannheim), University of 
Bologna, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, 
Jacobs University Bremen , Université de Lyon , 
Queensland University of Technology, Acadia 
University, University of Warsaw, and University 
College Cork.

Balisage 2009: The Markup Conference is produced by Mulberry
Technologies, Inc. of Rockville, Maryland (http://www.mulberrytech.com/),

sponsored by Mark Logic (http://www.marklogic.com),

and co-sponsored by:

    - the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org/)
    - the XML Guild (http://xmlguild.org/)
    - W3 Quebec (http://www.w3qc.org/)
    - OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured
      Information Standards, http://www.oasis-open.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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Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009          mailto:info@balisage.net
August 11-14, 2009                             http://www.balisage.net
Processing XML Efficiently: August 10, 2009           Montreal, Canada
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