Balisage 2015 Program
Tommie Usdin posted this message announcing the Balisage 2015 program:
I think this is an especially strong Balisage program with a good mix of theoretical and practical. The 2015 program includes case studies from journal publishing, regulatory compliance systems, and large-scale document systems; formatting XML for print and browser-based print formatting; visualizing XML structures and documents. Technical papers cover such topics as: MathML; XSLT; use of XML in government and the humanities; XQuery; design of authoring systems; uses of markup that vary from poetry to spreadsheets to cyber justice; and hyperdocument link management.
Good as far as it goes but a synopsis (omitting blurbs and debauchery events) of the program works better for me:
The art of the elevator pitch B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies
Markup as index interface: Thinking like a search engine Mary Holstege, MarkLogic
Markup and meter: Using XML tools to teach a computer to think about versification David J. Birnbaum, Elise Thorsen, University of Pittsburgh
XML (almost) all the way: Experiences with a small-scale journal publishing system Peter Flynn, University College Cork
The state of MathML in K-12 educational publishing Autumn Cuellar, Design Science Jean Kaplansky, Safari Books Online
Diagramming XML: Exploring concepts, constraints and affordances Liam R. E. Quin, W3C
Spreadsheets – 90+ million end user programmers with no comment tracking or version control Patrick Durusau Sam Hunting
State chart XML as a modeling technique in web engineering Anne
Brüggemann-Klein, Marouane Sayih, Zlatina Cheva, Technische Universität München
Implementing a system at US Patent and Trademark Office to fully automate the conversion of filing documents to XML Terrel Morris, US Patent and Trademark Office Mark Gross, Data Conversion Laboratory Amit Khare, CGI Federal
XML solutions for Swedish farmers: A case study Ari Nordström, Creative Words
XSDGuide — Automated generation of web interfaces from XML schemas: A case study for suspicious activity reporting Fabrizio Gotti, Université de Montréal Kevin Heffner, Pegasus Research & Technologies Guy Lapalme, Université de Montréal
Tricolor automata C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies; Technische Universität Darmstadt
Two from three (in XSLT) John Lumley, jωL Research / Saxonica
XQuery as a data integration language Hans-Jürgen Rennau, Traveltainment Christian Grün, BaseX
Smart content for high-value communications David White, Quark Software
Vivliostyle: An open-source, web-browser based, CSS typesetting engine Shinyu Murakami, Johannes Wilm, Vivliostyle
Panel discussion: Quality assurance in XML transformation
Comparing and diffing XML schemas Priscilla Walmsley, Datypic
Applying intertextual semantics to cyberjustice: Many reality checks for the price of one Yves Marcoux, Université de Montréal
UnderDok: XML structured attributes, change tracking, and the metaphysics of documents Claus Huitfeldt, University of Bergen, Norway
Hyperdocument authoring link management using Git and XQuery in service of an abstract hyperdocument management model applied to DITA hyperdocuments Eliot Kimber, Contrext
Extending the cybersecurity digital thread with XForms Joshua Lubell, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Calling things by their true names: Descriptive markup and the search for a perfect language C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies; Technische Universität Darmstadt
Now are you ready to register and make your travel arrangements?
Disclaimer: I have no idea why the presentation: Spreadsheets – 90+ million end user programmers with no comment tracking or version control is highlighted in your browser. Have you checked your router for injection attacks by the NSA? 
PS: If you are doing a one-day registration, the Spreadsheets presentation is Wednesday, August 12, 2015, 9:00 AM. Just saying.