This is a very technical conference, however it will be of interest to some on this list. Members and subscribers of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) are entitled to a discount on the registration.
-dan
-----Original Message----- From: TEI Overlapping Markup SIG discussion list on behalf of Syd Bauman Sent: Sun 27/05/2007 6:40 AM To: TEI-OL-SIG@listserv.brown.edu Subject: Extreme pre-conference workshop on overlap
What: International Workshop on Markup of Overlapping Structures
XML and SGML have revolutionized the representation of structured information, but not all information structures map easily into systems of hierarchically nested elements. Markup of overlapping structures is a perennially hot topic, reinvented and reimagined as often as it is solved.
This full-day workshop will bring together the proponents of some of the major proposals for markup, representation, extraction, display, and validation of semantic overlap to summarize the systems they are developing and discuss topics of common interest. A morning of formal presentations will be followed by an afternoon of free-ranging discussion.
When: Monday, 06 August 2007 the day before Extreme Markup Languages 2007, "The Markup Theory and Practice Conference"
Where: Hotel Europa, Montreal, Canada (the Extreme hotel)
Details: http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/
Confirmed speakers and topics include:
* Alexander Dekhtyar, California Polytechnic State University, on the Concurrent XML and the ARCHway Project
* Steven DeRose, National Center for Biotechnology Information (National Institutes of Health), on Trojan Markup and other empty-element techniques
* Patrick Durusau, Snowfall Software, on Topic Mapping overlap
* Wendell Piez, Mulberry Technologies, on LMNL (Layered Markup and Annotation Language)
* C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, World Wide Web Consortium, on TexMecs and Goddag structures
* Andreas Witt, University of Tubingen, on Multiple Annotations and XConcur
Registration fee: $125 per person; there is a 20% discount for TEI-C members and subscribers, as well as for members of IDEAlliance, OASIS, SC34, & W3C, and for full-time academics & government employees)
Registration and updated information at http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/overlap/index.html
There's Nothing so Theoretical as a Good Practice