{"id":118,"date":"2012-05-28T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=118"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:35:21","slug":"balisage-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Balisage 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be presenting a paper at <a href=\"http:\/\/balisage.net\/\">Balisage 2012<\/a> in Montr\u00c3\u00a9al, Canada, in August. For those of you who have no idea of what I&#8217;m talking about, Balisage is is a conference on markup, a sister conference to XML Prague, and, together with the latter, a markup geek&#8217;s wet dream. The conference is not just about XML (although quite naturally, XML takes up a lot of space), there are all kinds of topics related to markup theory and practice, including all those semantics you really can&#8217;t formalise using XML.<\/p>\n<p>Balisage, along with XML Prague, is also a conference where the discussions that inevitably follow the presentations are actually on topic and intelligent. It&#8217;s a very humbling experience to stand before a crowd of experts that can and will spot any flaws you might have in your slides, suggest improvements you never thought of and generally offer valuable insights. It&#8217;s a forum for learning, whether you are a presenter or a part of the audience.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really, really looking forward to August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be presenting a paper at Balisage 2012 in Montr\u00c3\u00a9al, Canada, in August. For those of you who have no idea of what I&#8217;m talking about, Balisage is is a conference on markup, a sister conference to XML Prague, and, together with the latter, a markup geek&#8217;s wet dream. The conference is not just about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,54,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}