The complete, final, post-conference revised proceedings for Extreme Markup Languages 2007 have been posted at http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme/proceedings/

On-site materials (slides), late-breaking papers, and transcripts of the opening and closing talks have been added to the proceedings.

As some of you may have noticed, Montréal is hosting the 67th WorldCon SF convention in 2009 (5-10 August).

I'd be interested to know who thinks Extreme should be the week before, the week after, or <gasp/> the same week...or <gag/> several weeks away.

Are there any moves to set a date for 2008? That time is approaching when next summer's conferences, vacations, and other commitments need to be scheduled.

The On-site Guide for Extreme 2007 is now available. This 16 page PDF file contains descriptions of all the presentations scheduled for Extreme 2007, room assignments, and general information about the conference.

Coming to Extreme?

Bring a poster along or create one while you are here.
This is your chance to have a say at Extreme!

Read how at http://www.extrememarkup.com/2007/posters.html

Read why at last year's poster plea at
conference/Schedule/Posters
from the Extreme Markup Community Site.

See ya at the Europa!

--dal

Toqué, 900 Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle, Montréal H2Z 2B2, 514-499-2084.  See David Birnbaum's 2006 review. Closest Metro: Place D'Armes. Map:

What: International Workshop on Markup of Overlapping Structures

When: Monday 6 August, 2007 (9:30am - 6pm)
(the day before the Extreme conference)

Where: Hotel Europa (the Extreme conference hotel), Montréal, Canada

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.

Extreme is the Markup Theory & Practice conference. That means that a wide variety of subject matter is appropriate and welcome. Here is a list or possible topics for Extreme, intended to suggest and inspire, but not to limit:

• XQuery, XSL-FO, XSLT, SVG, Pipelining, Topic Maps, RDF, TMQL,DSDL, OWL, SGML, XML, XSD, RELAX NG ...
• markup for document production
• markup for preservation and reuse of cultural artifacts
• issues in the design and deployment of markup vocabularies
• engineering tradeoffs in the design of markup-driven systems
• overlapping structures and how to represent them
• bias, objectivity, neutrality and ontological commitment in markup, markup design and software tools
• trees, tuples, sequences, directed graphs, and other data structures for the representation of information
• better markup as a tool for making the Web more useful
• the future of multi-purpose content
• the future of structured documents
• designing, creating, using, mainipulating, and interpreting marked-up content
• new markup-related tools
• markup semantics
• new approaches to old problems and new
• things you can and can't do with XML
• things it never occurred to you that anyone would want to do with XML
• alternatives to popular specifications and techniques
• treating non-XML data as if it were XML
• treating XML data as if it were non-XML
• implementation reports: love songs or horror stories

You can participate in Extreme Markup Languages(r) in several ways:

• Talk: submit a conference paper. Submit full papers in XML to extreme@mulberrytech.com. Guidelines and details on the Extreme Submissions page
• Review: serve as a peer reviewer. To apply to serve on the Peer Review panel, follow the instructions (yes, this is a test) on the Peer Review Application form
• Attend: come to the conference, listen to papers, learn about the latest and best techniques, the hottest and most pressing problems, the best and most promising solutions, and how the future of markup is shaping up. Meet the people who are shaping that future. Also, drink good coffee and eat great food in one of North America's liveliest cities.

http://www.math.grin.edu/~rebelsky/courses/CS302/99S/Outlines/outline.07...