Complete Balisage 2008 Program Announced

[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE]

Rockville, Maryland.  The complete program is now available, including
peer reviewed papers, late-breaking news, and first-person opinion papers.

   - Balisage 2008: The Markup Conference
    (held in Montreal from 12 to 15 August, 2008):
    Schedule at a Glance: http://www.balisage.net/At-A-Glance.html
    Detailed program: http://www.balisage.net/Program.html

   - The International Symposium on Versioning XML Vocabularies
     and Systems (held in the same location on Monday 11
     August):    http://www.balisage.net/Versioning/index.html
     and the detailed program is at:
       http://www.balisage.net/Versioning/VProgram.html

Topics include languages and processes for manipulating XML, the
Semantic Web and semantically-based document markup, resource-oriented
architectures, ontology design, schema mashups, constraint management,
real-time generation of topic maps, secure publishing for social
networks, managing overlapping annotations over the same primary data,
the social limitation of interoperability in digital libraries,
implementation of XSD 1.1 conditional-type assignment, and
a host of others.

Speakers from the business and government include: BEA Systems, IBM,
INRIA, Intel, Red Hat, SAIC, Sun, the World Wide Web Consortium, and the
Y-12 National Security Complex. Academic speakers include representatives
of Acadia University, the University of Bielefeld, the University of
Bologna, Brown University, the University of Illinois, the University of
Pittsburgh, and the University of Ottawa.


Balisage 2008: The Markup Conference is produced by Mulberry
Technologies of Rockville, Maryland (http://www.mulberrytech.com/), and
co-sponsored by the DC XML Users Group (http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/).

Registration discounts are available to members of co-sponsors and
employees of members.  The deadline for advance registration is 1 August
2008; advance registration saves $75 over on-site registration.

More details can be found at http://www.balisage.net

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