Re: [xml-dev] [ANN] Balisage 2014 Submissions due in one month

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

On 18 Mar 2014, at 21:20, Benito van der Zander <benito@benibela.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> early grad student here, with no  clue how such conferences work...
> 
> Is it worthwhile to submit a paper to Balisage?
> How is the "impact factor"?
> 
> Or is it better to try to submit to a databases conference (VLDB seems to be the top there) first?
> They often have xml topics
> 
> Bye,
> Benito 
> 

Benito,

Great question.

One of the really great things about the XML community is that researchers, product developers, and users all go to the same conferences, and of those, Balisage is definitely the leader. If you're into theory and you're mainly interested in getting academic brownie points for publishing a paper that no-one will ever read, certainly outside academia, then by all means submit to VLDB. But if you want to know what products are being developed and the innovative ways in which they are being used, or if you're a user and want to know what the researchers are up to, or if you want your theoretical advances to be picked up by product developers and to make a difference in the world, then come to Balisage. That kind of community interaction simply doesn't exist in the database world.

Michael Kay
Saxonica