Balisage: The Markup Conference is VIRTUAL August 4 through August 8, 2025

Balisage is a conference devoted to technical (sometimes even geeky) descriptions, explorations, and case studies concerning markup, markup-related languages (such as, but not limited to, XML, JSON, HTML, TeX, SVG); the preservation, manipulation, and transfer of the intellectual content of documents, manuscripts, databases, and artifacts over time and space; and the tools (including the XML stack, XSLT and XPath, XForms, XQuery, XProc, etc.) as well as the vocabularies (DITA, Akoma Ntoso, JATS, SVG, etc.) used to manipulate such content. 

While not strictly a Digital Humanities or academic conference, we have many DH and academic speakers. We are not a developer conference, but many developers present their latest innovations and user experiences. Last year we heard a lot about iXML and about various flavors of AI. We hope for XProc papers this year, as the discussion lists indicate this topic has become even more popular for real-world use.

To check out 2024 topics and speakers: (previous years also available)
   https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol29/cover.html
   
The 2025 conference is:
 - All virtual
 - All live and interactive (including speakers, questions to speakers, chat, and social spaces)
 - Really inexpensive
 
If you are a markup geek, or just like to listen to and hang out with them or if you spend time on the xml.com slack channel, we are your people. Join us in August and consider speaking. 

- Conference (attend August 4 through 8, 2025)
- About the conference (registration, peer review, etc.)
    https://www.balisage.net/index.html
- Call for Participation: (papers due by 4 April)
       https://www.balisage.net/Call4Participation.html