Montréal in August has always been the place and time for serious markup geeks to meet, and this year there's an all-new conference for them. Balisage is a peer reviewed conference designed to meet the needs of markup theoreticians and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of the field. It's all about the markup: how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space) - in short, changing the world and the web through the power of marked-up information. It's an XML Conference. It's an XSL Conference. It's a conference about SGML, LMNL, XSL-FO, XTM, RDF, XQuery, SVG, MathML, OWL, UBL, XSD, TexMECS, RNG, and a lot more. We welcome papers about topic maps, document modeling, markup of overlapping structures, ontologies, metadata, content management, and other markup-related topics at Balisage. We welcome papers about topic maps, document modeling, markup of overlapping structures, ontologies, metadata, content management, and other markup-related topics at Balisage. If you want to talk, in detail, about XML, XSL, SGML, LMNL, XSL-FO, XTM, RDF, XQuery, SVG, MathML, TEI, OWL, UBL, XSD, TexMECS, RNG, or any other markup- related topic, we urge you to participate in Balisage. How: Submit full papers in XML to [log in to unmask] Guidelines, details, and schemas at http://www.balisage.net/submissions.html Schedule: 15 March 2008 - Peer Review Applications Due 18 April 2008 - Paper Submissions Due 20 May 2008 - Speakers Notified 18 July 2008 - Revised Papers Due 11 August 2008 - Versioning Symposium 12-15 August 2008 - Balisage: The Markup Conference If you have any questions about Balisage send email to mailto:[log in to unmask] -- ====================================================================== Balisage: The Markup Conference 2008 mailto:[log in to unmask] August 12-15, 2008 http://www.balisage.net Versioning Symposium: August 11, 2008 Montreal, Canada ======================================================================