Papers at the Balisage 2008 conference will discuss a wide variety of topics. I have just received a draft of the topic list for the Balisage proceedings, and see that it is divided into Actions, Concepts, and Specifications, and into specifics with those categories.

The most frequent Actions are: transforming, Querying, Publishing, Parsing, and Linking.

The most frequent Concepts include: Modeling, Interoperability, Semantic Web, Concurrent Markup, and Knowledge Representation.

The most frequently mentioned Specifications are: Topic Maps, XSD/W3c Schema, XML, TexMECS, SAX, RDF, and DOM.

Other keywords assigned to the draft Balisage Proceedings include: API, Computational Linguistics, Content Management, Datatyping, Encryption, Information Architecture, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management, Mapping, Markup Languages, Messaging, Metadata, Natural Language Processing, Open Source, Processing, Programming, RelaxNG, REST, Schema Languages, Schematron, Semantics, Social Networks, Sociology, Standardization, SVG, Technology Adoption, TEI, Trees/Graphs, UBL, Validating, Versioning, Workflow, XLink, XPath, and XQuery.