Montréal in August has always been the place and time for serious markup geeks to meet. Balisage 2009 and the International Symposium on Processing XML Efficiently continue the tradition.

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 markup.

It’s an XML Conference. It’s an XSL Conference. It’s a conference about XSD, XQuery, RDF, UBL, SGML, LMNL, XSL-FO, XTM, SVG, MathML, OWL, TexMECS, RNG, and other things that may or may not yet be associated with such acronyms. We welcome papers about topic maps, document modeling, markup of overlapping structures, ontologies, metadata, content management, and other markup-related topics at Balisage.

Lieu Hotel Europa, 1240 Drummond, Montréal, Québec H3G 1V7, Canada Lien http://www.balisage.net/