[ANN] Balisage Submissions Due April 22

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

REMINDER
Submissions to Balisage 2018 and to the Symposium on Markup Vocabulary Ecosystems
are due in LESS THAN A MONTH! It takes time to write a Balisage paper; it is
time to get started.


Balisage: The Markup Conference 2018
July 31 — 3, 2018, Rockville, MD (a suburb of Washington, DC) 
July 30, 2018 — Pre-conference Symposium on Markup Vocabulary Ecosystems


Balisage conference topics include but are not limited to: 
• Cutting-edge applications of XML and related technologies
• 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
• Deployment of XML systems for enterprise data
• Design and implementation of XML vocabularies
• Case studies of the use of XML for publishing, interchange, or archiving
• Alternatives to XML/JSON/whatever
• Expressive power and application adequacy of XSD, Relax NG, DTDs, Schematron, and other 
schema languages
• Invisible XML

Symposium topics include but are not limited to:
• Use of shared markup vocabularies
• How use of markup vocabularies can be improved
• Tools, documentation, features of markup vocabularies that are especially helpful
• The influence of a markup vocabulary on processes or infrastructure
• The influence of processes or infrastructure on a markup vocabulary
• Third party support of a markup vocabulary: documentation, tools, forums for discussion
• Other aspects of the ecosystem surrounding a markup vocabulary



Detailed Call for Participation:  https://www.balisage.net/Call4Participation.html
About the Symposium: https://www.balisage.net/VocabEco/index.html
About Balisage:  https://www.balisage.net/

For more information: info@balisage.net or +1 301 315 9631

Dates:
	• 22 April 2018 — Paper submissions due
	• 21 May 2018 — Speakers notified
	• 6 July 2018 — Final papers due
	• 30 July 2018 — Pre-conference Symposium: Markup Vocabulary Ecosystems
	• 31 July – 3 August 2018 — Balisage: The Markup Conference


Balisage: The Markup Conference
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