Conferences and Other Public Events

We give talks on XML, analysis, XSLT and XPath, and SGML at conferences, as well as to industry and user groups. A schedule of our speaking engagements is provided below. If you would like more information about any of the presentations listed on this page, feel free to follow the links to the conference websites and to abstracts on our Papers and Presentations page.

2010

JATS-Con (Journal Article Tag Suite Conference) (Natcher Conference Center on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD)	November 1-2, 2010	Wendell Piez Fitting the Journal Publishing 3.0 Preview Stylesheets to Your Needs: Capabilities and Customizations
		Deborah A. Lapeyre Why Create a Subset of a Public Tag Set
XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 5-10, 2010	Deborah A. Lapeyre Hands-on Introduction to XML: Through the Looking Glass (Lesson 2.2, an introduction to XSLT and XPath)
		Deborah A. Lapeyre Hands-on Introduction to XML: Transformers, transform! (Lesson 2.3, transformations in action)
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010	August 3-6, 2010	B. Tommie Usdin The high cost of risk aversion (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol5.Usdin01)
XML for the Long Haul: Issues in the Long-term Preservation of XML	August 2, 2010
NISO Update at 2010 ALA Annual Conference	June 27, 2010	B. Tommie Usdin and Jeff Beck Creation of File Formats (in “Simplifying Digital Content: Standards from Creation to Distribution and Access”)
		B. Tommie Usdin and Jeff Beck Standardized Markup for Journal Articles in “LITA Standards Interest Group”
Classes on NLM Tag Suite 3.0 NLM Tag Suite 3.0 and Documents Customizing the NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange 3.0 Tag Sets	March 9-10, 2010

2009

XML-in-Practice 2009	September 30 - October 1, 2009	Deborah A. Lapeyre The National Library of Medicine Tag Suite for Journal Articles: Taking Over the World of XML Journal Publishing
XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 20-25, 2009	Deborah A. Lapeyre Hands-on Introduction to XML: Through the Looking Glass (Lesson 2.2, an introduction to XSLT and XPath)
		Deborah A. Lapeyre Hands-on Introduction to XML: Transformers, transform! (Lesson 2.3, transformations in action)
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009	August 11-14, 2009	B. Tommie Usdin Standards considered harmful (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol3.Usdin01)
		Wendell Piez How to Play XML: Markup Technologies as Nomic Game (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol3.Piez01)
International Symposium on Processing XML Efficiently: Overcoming Limits on Space, Time, or Bandwidth	August 10, 2009
Summer XML 2009 Conference (Raleigh, North Carolina)	July 27-28, 2009	Deborah A. Lapeyre Introduction to Schematron
		Deborah A. Lapeyre Introduction to XSLT Concepts
Classes and Symposium on NLM Tag Suite 3.0 NLM Tag Suite 3.0 and Documents User Experience with the NLM Tag Sets Customizing the NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange 3.0 Tag Sets	April 29 - May 1, 2009

2008

XML-in-Practice 2008	December 9, 2008	Wendell Piez Introduction to Schematron
Philadelphia XML Users Group	November 12, 2008	Wendell Piez and Deborah A. Lapeyre Introduction to Schematron
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2008	August 12-15, 2008	B. Tommie Usdin Cool versus useful (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol1.Usdin01)
International Symposium on Versioning XML Documents and Vocabularies	August 11, 2008	Deborah A. Lapeyre A non-backwards-compatible update: a difficult decision (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol2.Lapeyre01)
DC XML Users Group	January 16, 2008	Deborah A. Lapeyre and Wendell Piez Introductory Schematron

2007

Silverchair’s Blog	December 13, 2007	Interview with B. Tommie Usdin, President, Mulberry Technologies (reprinted from Silverchair’s newsletter, Context Matters)
XML 2007	December 3-5, 2007	B. Tommie Usdin and Wendell Piez Separating Mapping from Coding in Transformation Tasks
		Deborah A. Lapeyre and Wendell Piez Introductory Schematron (tutorial)
Text Encoding Initiative 7th Annual Member’s Meeting	November 1-2, 2007	B. Tommie Usdin TEI at 20: Congratulations! The Next 20 Will Tell the Tale
		Wendell Piez SIG Panel discussion: Markup schema as Theory
Extreme Markup Languages® 2007	August 7-10, 2007	B. Tommie Usdin Riding the wave, riding for a fall, or just along for the ride?
International Workshop on Markup of Overlapping Structures	August 6, 2007	Wendell Piez LMNL (Layered Markup and Annotation Language)
XML Summer School (Wadham College, University of Oxford)	July 23-27, 2007	Deborah A. Lapeyre Requirements for Managing and Delivering Information as XML
Digital Humanities 2007	June 2-8, 2007	Wendell Piez Form and Format: Towards a Semiotics of Digital Text Encoding

2006

Association of American Publishers Annual Medical Publishing Practicum	November 8, 2006	B. Tommie Usdin XML: What Is It? And Why Should It Matter to Me? (moderator)
		B. Tommie Usdin What Does a Publisher Need to Know, and Decide, about XML?
Extreme Markup Languages® 2006	August 2006	Wendell Piez and Deborah A. Lapeyre Introduction to XPath 2.0 (tutorial)
		Wendell Piez The Layered Markup and Annotation Language (LMNL)
Tri-XML 2006 Conference	July 27, 2006	Wendell Piez A High-Level Overview of XML
		Wendell Piez Document Model Selection: Off-the-Shelf, Altered-to-Fit, or Bespoke?
XML Summer School (Wadham College, University of Oxford)	July 24-25, 2006	Deborah A. Lapeyre Requirements for Managing and Delivering Information as XML
Xplor Mid Atlantic	April 20, 2006	Deborah A. Lapeyre and B. Tommie Usdin What is XML and Why Should You Care?
SD West	March 14, 2006	Deborah A. Lapeyre The Complete XPath 1.0
	March 15, 2006	Deborah A. Lapeyre Converting HTML to XML
		Deborah A. Lapeyre The Real Basics of XSLT 1.0
Xplor 2006	February 1, 2006	Deborah A. Lapeyre XML Tutorials: Introduction to XSLT Concepts
		Deborah A. Lapeyre XML Tutorials: Introduction to XSL-FO Concepts (Printing Directly from XML)
	February 2, 2006	Deborah A. Lapeyre What is XML and Why Should You Care?
		B. Tommie Usdin How and Why are Companies Using XML?
		B. Tommie Usdin Moving to XML: The Investment
	February 3, 2006	B. Tommie Usdin Why XML for Print?
		Deborah A. Lapeyre XML in Print Production
DC XML Users Group	January 18, 2006	Deborah A. Lapeyre and Wendell Piez Introduction to XPath 2.0

2005

XML 2005	Nov. 14, 2005	Wendell Piez The Compleat XPath 1.0 (tutorial)
		Wendell Piez Introduction to XPath 2.0 (tutorial)
		Deborah A. Lapeyre Understanding XSLT: A Conceptual Introduction (tutorial)
	Nov. 16, 2005	B. Tommie Usdin XML Masters Series: Document Publishing (panelist)
	Nov. 17, 2005	Wendell Piez XSLT Throughout the Document Lifecycle
		B. Tommie Usdin W3C XML Schema; RELAX NG; Schematron; or DTD: How’s a User to choose?
SD Best Practices	Sept. 28, 2005	Deborah A. Lapeyre Information (Document) Analysis for DTD and Schema Development
Extreme Markup Languages® 2005	Aug. 1-5, 2005	B. Tommie Usdin In Praise of the Edge Case
		Wendell Piez Format and Content: Can they be separated? Should they be?
TriXML	July 28-30, 2005	Wendell Piez XML in the Real World
		Wendell Piez Workshop: XSLT Basics
		Wendell Piez Overview: XML
Philadelphia XML Users Group	July 13, 2005	Deborah A. Lapeyre XML Schema Languages
ACH/ALLC 2005 (Victoria, British Columbia)	June 2005	Wendell Piez Visualizing TEI using SVG

2004

XML 2004	November 2004	Wendell Piez Way Beyond Powerpoint
Seybold San Francisco	August 16-19, 2004	Deborah A. Lapeyre Introduction to XML and Print (tutorial)
Extreme Markup Languages® 2004	August 2-6, 2004	Wendell Piez Half-steps toward LMNL
TriXML Conference	July 22-24, 2004	Deborah A. Lapeyre The Real Basics of XSLT
		Deborah A. Lapeyre The Future of XML
		B. Tommie Usdin An Introduction to the Basic Concepts
		B. Tommie Usdin Conference Closing Address
ALLC/ACH 2004 (Gothenburg, Sweden)	June 11-16, 2004	Wendell Piez Authoring Scholarly Articles: TEI or Not TEI?
Content Management Strategies Conference	April 11-14, 2004	Deborah A. Lapeyre A Gentle Introduction to XSLT