Balisage is an annual conference devoted to descriptive markup, how to use it to best effect, and what it means for technology, access to information, and the preservation of information for the future. Specific topics discussed vary over time, but the main themes of the conference consistently include: markup languages, most visibly XML and SGML and proposals to extend or replace them, but also including other ways of structuring information; Tools for processing marked-up documents; Tools and practices for converting documents and other information from one format to another; Systems and tools for managing changes in documents over time and space; Experience reports from users and implementers; Programming languages for writing tools for processing marked up data; Issues relating to the theory of documents and markup; and Specific technologies related to any or all of the above: XML parsers, XSLT, XQuery, XPath, XForms, Invisible XML, XML editors.
Event Date: July 29 - August 2, 2024
Event Location: Online
Event Website: https://www.balisage.net/index.html
