The Call for Papers for Balisage 2009 has been posted. "We welcome papers about topic maps, document modeling, markup of overlapping structures, ontologies, metadata, content management, and other markup-related topics at Balisage. If you want to talk, in detail XML, XSL, SGML, LMNL, XSL-FO, XTM, RDF, XQuery, Topic Maps, SVG, MathML OWL, UBL, XSD, TexMECS, RNG, or any other markup-related topic, we urge you to participate in Balisage." Paper Submissions are due by April 24. The conference takes place August 11-14.
In addition the official conference will be proceeded by a one day "International Symposium on Processing XML Efficiently: Overcoming Limits on Space, Time, or Bandwidth" on the 10th.