The 8th international conference on Scalable Vector Graphics will take place from August 30 to September 2, in Paris, France, hosted by Telecom ParisTech. At this conference you can learn about subjects varying from specialized technical visualizations to interactive multimedia art. On the program there are presentations, beginner and advanced level workshops, and the opportunity to meet people from the SVG community, industry and the W3C SVG Working Group. Read more »

Just a quick notification of new and existing public deliveries of XML-related training by Crane Softwrights Ltd. as we travel in Europe, North America and the world in 2010:

2010-03-04 - Free Internet Lectures using Skype and Yugma
17:00UTC Introduction to the Universal Business Language
18:00UTC Introduction to Code List Implementation in XML
http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/index.html#upcoming
(seats are still available; groups are encouraged)

2010-03-15 - 5-day hands-on XSLT/XQuery* Read more »

This pre-conference symposium co-located with Balisage 2010 should
be of interest to readers of this list. Please forward as appropriate.
And if you have a department bulletin board, you might print out
the flyer at http://balisage.net/Handouts/LongHaulCall.pdf and put
it up for others to see. I look forward to your paper proposals
and your attendance! -Michael Sperberg-McQueen

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Call for Participation:
International Symposium on XML for the Long Haul Read more »

Sessions

Saturday, March 13th

Got Markup? (of course you do!)

Want to get more out of it? Want to stretch it to the limit? Come to Balisage 2010, the peer-reviewed conference that makes you a markup geek (or at least feel like one)! Whether you're into theory or practice, this is the place to be to find out where the cutting edge is-and go beyond it. Balisage looks at every aspect of markup, from its theoretical and philosophical underpinnings to the newest and coolest ways of applying it to real-world problems. Read more »

From Donna Roy, Executive Director, National Information Exchange Program (NIEM) Read more »