Balisage conference preliminary program available

[Jon Bosak <bosak@pinax.com>]

Hello UBL contributors and developers,

The annual Balisage conference has just posted its preliminary
program; see description and links below.

This year, as it has for the past several years, the Balisage
organizers are very kindly providing space for the annual summer
UBL Technical Committee meeting, which will take place the week
following the conference.

If you are deeply interested in XML technology (or just want to
talk to people who are), this is the place to go.  There's nothing
else like it in the world.  And Montreal is a great summer family
vacation destination.  Check it out!

Jon

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"Balisage: The Markup Conference" (http://www.balisage.net) is an
annual peer-reviewed XML conference: how to create markup; 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).

Come to lovely Montreal, Canada from August 3rd to 6th for four
action-packed days of angle brackets! Here's a baker's dozen (or
so) sampling from the much larger list of Balisage 2010
presentations:

gXML, a new approach to cultivating XML trees in Java
Java integration of XQuery - an information unit oriented approach
Reverse modeling for domain-driven engineering of publishing technology
Managing semantics in XML vocabularies
XML pipeline processing in the browser
Where XForms meets the glass: Bridging between data and interaction design
Schema component paths for schema analysis
A streaming XSLT processor
Multi-structured documents and the emergence of annotations vocabularies
Processing arbitrarily large XML using a persistent DOM
Automatic upconversion using XProc
Scripting documents with XQuery
XQuery design patterns
Parallel processing and your XML data

Want to travel on the weekend so you can talk about angle brackets
for an extra day? Then register for the pre-conference symposium
on August 2nd, "XML for the Long Haul: Issues in the Long-term
Preservation of XML".

Schedule At-a-Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2010/At-A-Glance.html

Detailed schedule with descriptions: http://www.balisage.net/2010/Program.html

XML for the Long Haul: http://www.balisage.net/longhaul/index.html

Tower of Modern Babel Contest - Chance to win an Apple 15" (i5)
MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook Air or USD $2000:
http://www.balisage.net/contest.html

Sponsors include: Mark Logic, oXygen XML Editor, and the FLWOR
Foundation. Co-sponsors include: W3C, OASIS, Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative, XML Guild, TEI Encoding Initiative, Washington Area
SGML/XML Users Group, Philadelphia XML Users Group, and many
more. Balisage 2010 is a production of Mulberry Technologies,
Inc., a Washington area XML and SGML consultancy.