Balisage: The Markup Conference is VIRTUAL August 3 through 7, 2026

This is the very last Balisage ever. You want to be there!

 (Never been to Balisage? Read Balisage is About below.)

Balisage 2026:

 - All virtual and only virtual

 - All live and interactive (including speakers, questions to speakers, chat, and social spaces.

     We talk to each other and listen to each other, this is not canned or a webinar)

 - Inexpensive

Important:

- Conference Dates: August 3 through 7, 2026

- About (registration, participation, sponsoring, peer review, proceedings, more)

         https://www.balisage.net/index.html

- Call for Participation: (Papers due by 3 April)

       https://www.balisage.net/Call4Participation.html

To ask questions email   info@balisage.net

To check out last year's topics and speakers: (previous years also available)

       https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol30/cover.html

Hope to see/hear you all there!  

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Balisage is About

Balisage is about all things markup. The conference is devoted to technical (sometimes even geeky) descriptions, explorations, new ideas, philosophy, and case studies concerning markup: markup-related languages (such as, but not limited to, XML, JSON, HTML, TeX); markup applications; the preservation, manipulation, and transfer of the intellectual content of documents, manuscripts, databases, and artifacts over time and space; the tools for dealing with markup (including the XML stack, XSLT and XPath, iXML, XProc, XQuery, XForms, Schematron, etc.) as well as markup vocabularies (DITA, Akoma Ntoso, TEI, JATS, DocBook, SVG, STS, BITS, etc.) used to manipulate and transform markup. We even discuss markup light, such as YAML, Markdown, and CSV.

In the last few years, we have heard a lot about iXML and about various flavors of AI. We hope for XProc papers this year, which the discussion lists indicate has become even more popular for real-world use.

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.