[jats-list] [ANN] Announcing Balisage 2026 - Call for Participation

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Call for Participation "Balisage: The Markup Conference 2026b

Balisage: ALL VIRTUAL, LIVE, TECHNICAL, & INTERACTIVE
Balisage: where serious markup practitioners and theoreticians meet
every summer.

Critical Dates
- 3 April 2026  b Paper submissions due
- 6 b 10 August 2026 b BALISAGE: THE MARKUP CONFERENCE

What is Balisage?
Balisage is the premier conference on the theory, practice, design,
development,
and application of markup. We solicit papers on any aspect of markup and its
uses; topics include but are not limited to:

- New markup-related specifications, tools, or technologies
- Deployment of XML systems for enterprise data
- Design and implementation of XML vocabularies
- Integration of XML with other technologies (e.g., content management, AI,
knowledge management, XSLT, XQuery)
- Case studies of the use of XML for publishing, interchange, or archiving
- Alternatives to XML (JSON, Markdown, your favorite)
- Informal data models and consensus-based vocabularies
- Semistructured data and full text search
- Performance issues in parsing, XML database retrieval, or XSLT processing
- Development of angle-bracket-free user interfaces for non-technical users
- Web application development with XML
- the role(s) of XML in the application lifecycle
- the role(s) of vocabularies in XML environments

Participation Details
- Call for Participation:
https://www.balisage.net/Call4Participation.html
- Call for Peer Reviewers:  https://www.balisage.net/peer/ReviewAppForm.html
- About Balisage:  https://www.balisage.net/

All papers will be peer-reviewed b we pride ourselves that you will
seldom get a more thorough, skeptical, or helpful review than the ones
provided by Balisage reviewers.

For more information: email info@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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Balisage: The Markup Conference 2026          https://www.balisage.net
6 - 10 August 2026
mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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