a friendly, technically challenging, intensive, thought-provoking,
argumentative, welcoming, obstreperous conference on markup,
managing information, and information structures

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
EXTREME MARKUP LANGUAGES 2007(r)
(a registered trademark of IDEAlliance)

Extreme is the leading international conference on markup theory and
practice.
If you have interesting markup applications, difficult markup problems, or
intriguing solutions to problems related to the design and use of markup,
markup languages, or markup tools; if you want to know what the leading
theorists of markup are thinking; if you are the house markup expert and
want to spend time with your kind, then you should plan on attending
Extreme Markup Languages(r) 2007.

Extreme is an open marketplace of theories about markup and all the
things that they support or that support them: the difficult cases in
publishing, linguistics, transformation, searching, indexing, and storage
and retrieval. At Extreme, markup enthusiasts gather each year to trade
in ideas, not to convince management to buy new stuff. At Extreme we push
the edges of markup theory & practice.

WHEN:      August 7-10, 2007
WHERE:     Montrial, Canada
HOST:      IDEAlliance

You can participate in Extreme Markup Languages in several ways:
 - Talk: submit a conference paper. Submit full papers in XML to
    extreme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Guidelines and details at
    http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2007/submissions.html
 - Review: serve as a peer reviewer. To apply to serve on the Peer
    Review panel, follow the instructions (yes, this is a test) at:
    http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Peer/ReviewAppForm.html
 - 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
    greatest cities.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
 - XQuery, XSL-FO, XSLT, 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

9 March 2007: Peer review applications due
20 April 2007: Paper submissions due
13 May 2007: Speakers notified of paper selection
6 July 2007: Revised papers due
7-10 August 2007: Extreme Markup Languages 2007, Montrial

QUESTIONS: Email to extreme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or call
           Tommie Usdin +1 301/315-9631

MORE INFORMATION as available: http://www.extrememarkup.com/
PROCEEDINGS of previous EXTREME MARKUP Conferences:
      http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme/proceedings/

   The Extreme Markup Languages Conference, formerly a production
   of IDEAlliance, is now developed by Mulberry Technologies, Inc.,
   which is solely responsible for its program.

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Extreme Markup Languages 2007          mailto:extreme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
August 7-10, 2007                  http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme
Montreal, Canada                          http://www.extrememarkup.com
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