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Adam Retter writes:
XML Slack Workspace
There's a new Slack Workspace for the XML Community
announced with a link in an article on XML.com.
This is a vendor independent workspace, hosted by
Lauren Wood and XML.com, and
equally open to XSLT, XQuery, XForms, or whatever X
technology. (Thanks to
Debbie Lapeyre for the
pointer.)
Online, there's the XML Specification
and the ancillary documentation available from the W3C; Robin Cover's
XML
Cover Pages with an extensive list of online
reference material and links to software; and a summary
and condensed
FAQ from Tim Bray; and thousands of
reference resources available by typing
‘xml’ into Google or other search
engine.
For offline resources, see the lists of books, articles,
and software for XML in Robin Cover's XML
Cover Pages (articles and books). That site should
always be your first port of call for archived resources.
For access to experts, particularly in consultancy and
training, see the XML
Guild, whose members form a consortium of some of
the best independent XML consultants in the world.
The events listed below are the ones I have been told
about. Please mail
me if you come across others: there are many other
XML events around the world, and most of them are announced
at conferences, on Twitter, and on the mailing lists and
newsgroups.
Conferences
This list covers conferences and meetings in the field
of Markup, mainly XML but including some non-XML events in
closely-related areas (eg LATEX, Markdown, etc).
Upcoming- TUG 2024
Following the very successful online meetings of past
years, the TEX
Users Group 2024 meeting will take place at the Hotel
Grandior in Prague (Czech Republic) on July 19–21, with Tom
Hejda leading the local organization. Full details are at
http://tug.org/tug2024. There will be a
LaTeX developers' workshop on July 18; the topics will be
around tagged and accessible PDF, as with last year.
Many XML users also use
LATEX for their formatting via XSLT, so
there are important areas of overlap in terms of
facilities.
- Balisage 2024
Balisage is
the premier conference on the theory, practice, design,
development, and application of markup. We solicit papers on
any aspect of markup and its uses, including
XML, XSLT, xQuery,
JSON, LATEX, Markdown, and many others
(paper submissions due 5 April 2024). The conference will run
from 29 July to 2 August, and will be virtual again this year,
so local watch-parties are encouraged.
Many aspects of LATEX markup are closely
related to the use of XML markup and the
handling of structured documents.- ConTEXt 2024
The 18th International ConTEXt
meeting will be held on August 17–23, 2024, in
Lutten/Hardenberg, The Netherlands.
- XML Summer School 2024
The XML
Summer School runs at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, from
Sunday 15th to Friday 20th September 2024. The week-long event
is made up of courses which range from the basics of XML to
advanced topics in linked data, web design, and
publishing.
- TEI Conference 2024
The Text Encoding
Initiative represents the accepted standard
XML format for literary and historical
texts in the Humanities. The TEI 2024
Conference will be held in the Universidad del
Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina from 7-11 October 2024.
Pre-conference workshops will run on the 7-8 October, with the
conference opening and running for the 9-11 October.
Many TEI users also use
LATEX via XSLT for creating PDF.- Declarative Amsterdam 5
The sixth edition of Declarative
Amsterdam will take place on 7 and 8 November 2024 at
the Science Park, Amsterdam. It will be a hybrid conference
with the opportunity to attend live or online, for both
attendees and presenters.
Declarative techniques are a style of computing that
expresses the purpose of computation without describing its
control flow. It allows you to focus on the ‘what’, rather
than the ‘how’.
Done and dusted- XML Prague 2024
XML Prague
2024 will take place 6–8 June 2024 in the University
of Economics, nam. W. Churchilla 4, 130 67 Prague 3, Czech
Republic.
Markup UK
and XML Prague are held in alternate years, at this year it’s
XML Prague’s turn. We are looking forward to meeting you in
June 2024 in Prague and in 2025 in London.
- Typefi Pacific User Group 2024
Typefi is hosting a free virtual event on 28 February at
1pm AEST for those in Pacific time zones. Visit the Typefi
website to register.
- Libres écritures numériques
On 16 November 2023, in Lyon (France), a workshop will be
held (in French) focusing on people who choose their tools
carefully when writing or manipulating text. Tools such as
LATEX, Markdown, HTML, XML-TEI, and the myriad scripting
languages. Registration is required. Schedule of talks and
more information: https://www.ixxi.fr/agenda/seminaires/libres-ecritures-numeriques
This workshop will be streamed and recorded.
- Declarative Amsterdam 5
The fifth edition of Declarative
Amsterdam will take place on 2 and 3 November 2023 at
the Science Park, Amsterdam. It will be a hybrid conference
with the opportunity to attend live or online, for both
attendees and presenters.
The first day will feature tutorials, combining
presentations and hands-on sessions to give an introduction to
specific topics. The second day will be a symposium, with
shorter presentations. Speakers can discuss new ideas,
frameworks, applications of declarative methods, and best
practices.
Declarative techniques are a style of computing that
expresses the purpose of computation without describing its
control flow. It allows you to focus on the ‘what’, rather
than the ‘how’. While the conference is mainly focused on XML
and related technologies, much of the underlying principle
holds true for the LATEX user interface also.
Declarative Amsterdam will have presentations on past
experiences, current trends and future perspectives in fields
such as functional programming, declarative data modelling,
databases, XML and related technologies, JSON, CSS, semantic
web, data science, data visualization, grammars, parsing, and
domain-specific languages.
- Future of Text vol IV
The fourth annual Symposium on the Future of Text will be
held in London (and online) on the 4th of October 2023. This
is to announce ‘The Future of Text’ Vol IV which is now open
for proposals (see below).
This year we are focusing on text to extend cognition in
extended environments, from paper in notebooks to reams of
paper across tables and onto walls, with screens, projections
and head mounted devices, interacted with directly as well as
through AI.
If you are able to attend on the day in London, please
contact mailto:frode@hegland.com as soon
as possible so that your name can be on the door for the
venue.
You may choose to propose an article for the book, a
presentation for the symposium or both.
- ConTEXt 2023
The 17th International ConTEXt
meeting will be held on September 10-16th, 2023, in
Prague-Sibřina, Czech Republic.
- Balisage 2023
Balisage is
the premier conference on the theory, practice, design,
development, and application of markup. We solicit papers on
any aspect of markup and its uses, including
XML, XSLT, xQuery,
JSON, TEX, Markdown, and many others. The
conference will run from 31 July to 4 August, and will be
virtual again this year, so local watch-parties are
encouraged.
Many aspects of LATEX markup are closely
related to the use of XML markup and the
handling of structured documents.- TUG 2023
Following the very successful online meetings of past
years, the TEX
Users Group 2023 meeting will take place at the Hotel
Collegium Leoninum, Noeggerathstrasse 34, 53111 Bonn, Germany
from July 14–16, with a Tagged PDF
developers’ workshop on July 13; physically if possible but
the conference will be streamed.
- MarkupUK 2023
MarkupUK
2023: although primarily related to
XML, all forms of markup are discussed.
From 2022, Markup UK and
XML Prague will be held in alternate years,
starting with XML Prague. We are looking
forward to meeting you in June 2022 in Prague and on 1–3 June
2023 at the Mile End campus of Queen Mary University of
London.
- GuIT 2023
The GuIT meeting 2023, the 19th Italian conference on
TEX, LATEX and digital typography, will be held in Rome on
May 20, 2023. For further details: https://www.guitex.org/home/en/meeting.
- BachoTEX 2023
Jerzy Ludwichowski writes: The war in
Ukraine is raging still, but none the less we decided to
organize BachoTEX
2023, and to make up for the lost time by keeping the
same theme as the cancelled 2020 conference, “A model kit:
modeling and implementing text typesetting in TEX and other
systems”. The dates are from 29th of April until 3rd of May,
2023, at Bachotek near Brodnica, in the north-east of Poland.
Registrations will be announced separately as soon as
possible.
Training
This list covers training events and resources in the
field of Markup, mainly XML but including some non-XML
events in closely-related areas (eg LATEX, Markdown,
etc).
- Character and higher-level encoding
The Sanskrit Library offers a course, “UT102. Character
and higher-level encoding.” A prerequisite is advanced
competency in Sanskrit, fluency reading Devanagari script, and
regular access to a computer and basic computer use skills.
Date and time: 9–11am US Central time, 20 January – 4 May
2024, except 23 March. See
https://sanskritlibrary.org/courses/ut102.html.
- The Complete XML Developer
The Complete XML Developer runs from 26 February to 1st
March and covers XPath, XSLT, XQuery, and XML Databases. It is
taught in-person, and attendees will follow a hands-on
approach to ultimately develop a complete XML Application over
the course of the week. The full course outline is available
at https://evolvedbinary.com/training/the-complete-xml-developer_training-course-outline.pdf
and the sessions are held at the Wellcome Collection, Euston
Road, London.
- Delightful Computing
Courses are live but online, or can be on site for a
course with a venue available and at least six
participants.
XSLT: Two to Three - three intense days covering the
differences in XPath and XSLT since version 2. Now
includes some notes on XSLT 4.
XSLT Booster - for people who have used XSLT 1 but not
2, or who are rusty on XSLT 2, this gives a one-day or
half-day step up.
CSS for XML People - three days, topics include CSS
for Print, CSS for Web, Web accessibility, and
more.
Custom (bespoke) courses, e.g. introductions to DocBook or
to XSLT, can be half-day up to a full week.
Discounts for advance booking, for more than three people
from the same organisation, and yes, barefoot discount, since
people always ask for it! on request.
- XML for Humanists
Consulting and training in XML technologies for digital
humanists and librarians. Events can be scheduled on request
to David Maus at Digital Humanities Publishing https://dmaus.name.