Each year, Balisage gathers together an eclectic mix of participants interested in markup and puts them together in one of the world's great cities for three and half days of discussion about points of interest in the use of descriptive markup to build strong, lasting information systems. Practitioners and theorists, vendors and users, tool-users and tool-makers, all provide their perspectives at Balisage.

As always, papers at Balisage can address any aspect of the use of markup and markup languages to represent information and build information systems. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

XML and related technologies
Non-XML markup languages
Implementation experience with XML parsing, XSLT processors, XQuery processors, XML databases, Topic Map engines, XProc integrations, or any markup-related technology
Semantics, overlap, and other complex fundamental issues for markup languages
Case studies of markup design and deployment
Quality of information in markup systems
JSON and XML
Efficiency of Markup Software
Markup systems in and for the mobile web
The future of XML and of descriptive markup in general
Interesting applications of markup