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, follow the links to the conference websites and to abstracts on our Papers and Presentations page.

2023

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2023	July 31 - August 4, 2023	B. Tommie Usdin The Secret Garden (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol28.Usdin01)
JATS-Con (Journal Article Tag Suite Conference)	June 13-14, 2023	Jeffrey Beck and Deborah Lapeyre PIDs and JATS: How Do I Tag Those Crucial but Pesky Identifiers?
NISO Plus 2023: Global Conversations / Global Connections	February 14-16, 2023	Caitlin Bakker, Jeffrey Beck, Tommie Usdin, Noah Levin, Mohammad Hosseini, and Nettie Lagace NISO Update 1

2022

Standards Technology Forum	November 14-15, 2022	B. Tommie Usdin Update from NISO STS
eXtyles User Group Meeting	October 26-27, 2022	Debbie Lapeyre What’s Happening in JATS, BITS, and STS in 2022
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2022	August 1-5, 2022	B. Tommie Usdin Destructive Consistency (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol27.Usdin01)
JATS-Con (Journal Article Tag Suite Conference) JATS-Con Open Session	May 3-4, 2022	B. Tommie Usdin Thinking about a Convenience Subset of JATS
	May 3-4, 2022	Debbie Lapeyre Processing Metadata (A New Feature in JATS 1.3)

2021

Standards Technology Forum	November 15-16, 2021	B. Tommie Usdin Update from NISO STS
eXtyles User Group Meeting	October 25-26, 2021	Debbie Lapeyre The JATS Family Grows: The Latest on JATS, BITS, and STS: What’s new and what’s next in the JATS family of DTDs
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2021	August 2-6, 2021	B. Tommie Usdin The (unspoken) XML gotcha (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol26.Usdin01)
Markup UK 2021	May 21-22, 2021	B. Tommie Usdin Encouraging Tag Set Branching without Creating a Briar Patch
Markup UK 2021	May 21-22, 2021	Debbie Lapeyre How Much Tag Set Documentation is Needed? How much is Too Much?
JATS-Con (Journal Article Tag Suite Conference)	April 27-28, 2021	B. Tommie Usdin A Deep Dive into JATS Documentation

2020

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2020	July 27-31, 2020	B. Tommie Usdin Welcome to Balisage 2020: Everything is the same, and everything is different (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol25.Usdin01)
NISO Plus 2020 — The NISO Plus Conference (Baltimore, MD)	February 23-25, 2020	Robert Wheeler, Jeff Beck, and Tommie Usdin JATS, BITS, STS: Keeping Things in a “Family” and Backward Compatibility
NISO Plus 2020 — The NISO Plus Conference (Baltimore, MD)	February 23-25, 2020	Jabin White, Debbie Lapeyre, Melissa Harrison, Robin Dunford, and Robert Wheeler Standards Project Updates (1) — JATS, JATS4R, STS, SSOS

2019

eXtyles User Group Meeting (Boston, MA)	November 7, 2019	Deborah A. Lapeyre What Is JATS 2.0, and Should You Be Worried?
XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 15-20, 2019	Debbie Lapeyre, Gary Cornelius, and John Chelsom Hands-on Introduction to XML 2019
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2019	July 30 - August 2, 2019	B. Tommie Usdin Explicit markup: a fool’s errand or the next big thing? (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol23.Usdin01)
Symposium on Markup Vocabulary Customization (a Balisage pre-conference symposium)	July 29, 2019	Deborah A. Lapeyre Customizing JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite) (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol24.Lapeyre01)
Markup UK 2019 (Bush House, King’s College London)	June 7-9, 2019	Deborah A. Lapeyre Now I Know what a Dragon Looks Like
Typefi User Conference 2019 (Baltimore, MD)	May 2-3, 2019	B. Tommie Usdin The Value of Descriptive Markup for Discovery, Utility, and Preservation
XML.com	January 18, 2019	Debbie Lapeyre Introduction to BITS (Book Interchange Tag Suite)

2018

eXtyles User Group Meeting (Boston, MA)	November 8, 2018	Deborah A. Lapeyre How Does JATS 1.2 (in vote) Differ from JATS 1.1?
XML.com	October 12, 2018	Debbie Lapeyre Introduction to JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite)
SciELO 20 Years: Conference (São Paulo, Brazil)	September 26-28, 2018	Deborah A. Lapeyre How JATS empowers scholarly communication
SciELO 20 Years: SciELO Network Meeting (São Paulo, Brazil)	September 24-25, 2018	Deborah A. Lapeyre XML — Why and how: JATS
XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 9-14, 2018	Deborah A. Lapeyre and John Chelsom Hands-on introduction to XML 2018
XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 9-14, 2018	Adam Retter, Deborah A. Lapeyre, Gary Cornelius, and Steven Pemberton Trends and Transients 2018: What’s new?
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2018	July 31 - August 3, 2018	B. Tommie Usdin YAMC? Why are we here? Why are we here again? (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol21.Usdin02)
Symposium on Markup Vocabulary Ecosystems (a Balisage pre-conference symposium)	July 30, 2018	B. Tommie Usdin and Deborah A. Lapeyre JATS/BITS/NISO STS (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol22.Usdin01)
Markup UK 2018 (Skempton Building, Imperial College’s South Kensington Campus, London)	June 9-10, 2018	Deborah A. Lapeyre Closing Keynote: In Defense of the Lowly Angle Bracket
	June 9-10, 2018	B. Tommie Usdin Shared Tag Sets as Social Constructs
JATS-Con (Journal Article Tag Suite Conference) (Lister Hill Auditorium at the U.S. National Library of Medicine on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland)	April 17-18, 2018	B. Tommie Usdin Fighting the “Inevitable” Expansion of the JATS Tag Sets
	April 17-18, 2018	Jeffrey Beck, Gerrit Imsieke, Deborah A. Lapeyre, Evan Owens, Laura Randall, Bruce Rosenblum, and B. Tommie Usdin JATS Mini Tagging Tutorials
XML.com	January 6, 2018	B. Tommie Usdin What is NISO STS?

2017

eXtyles User Group Meeting (Cambridge, MA)	November 2-3, 2017	Deborah A. Lapeyre XPath: the Secret to Success with XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron
eXtyles User Group Meeting (Cambridge, MA)	November 2-3, 2017	Tommie Usdin Just Enough JATS, BITS, and STS
XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 17-22, 2017	Deborah A. Lapeyre Hands-on Introduction to XML
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2017	August 1-4, 2017	B. Tommie Usdin It is time to make ourselves clear (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol19.Usdin01)
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2017	August 1-4, 2017	Abel Braaksma, John Lumley, Adam Retter, and Tommie Usdin Optimization Panel
Up-Translation and Up-Transformation: Tasks, Challenges, and Solutions (a Balisage pre-conference symposium)	July 31, 2017
XML London	June 10-11, 2017	Deborah A. Lapeyre Closing Keynote: Bespoke, Bewildered, and Bebothered
Oxygen Users Meetup	May 5, 2017	Tommie Usdin Oxygen for training classes
JATS-Con (Journal Article Tag Suite Conference) (Lister Hill Auditorium at the U.S. National Library of Medicine on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland)	April 25-26, 2017	B. Tommie Usdin, Deborah A. Lapeyre, Laura Randall, and Jeffrey Beck In pursuit of family harmony: Introducing the JATS Compatibility Meta Model
	April 25-26, 2017	B. Tommie Usdin, Deborah A. Lapeyre, Laura Randall, and Jeffrey Beck Circling in on the JATS Compatibility Meta-Model
XML for Standards Publishers: A NISO Connections Live Event (The Library of Congress, Washington, DC)	April 24, 2017	B. Tommie Usdin XML for Standards: Options and Opportunities

2016

XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 11-16, 2016	Deborah A. Lapeyre Hands-on Introduction to XML
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2016	August 2-5, 2016	B. Tommie Usdin, Deborah A. Lapeyre, Laura Randall, and Jeffrey Beck Graceful tag set extension (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol17.Usdin01)
XML In, Web Out: International Symposium on sub rosa XML	August 1, 2016
JATS-Con (Journal Article Tag Suite Conference) (Natcher Conference Center on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD)	April 12-13, 2016	B. Tommie Usdin So You Want to Adopt JATS. What Decisions Do You Need to Make?
Force11 Data Citation Implementation Pilot (DCIP) Project Kick-Off Workshop (Boston, MA)	February 3, 2016	Deborah A. Lapeyre Citing data with JATS

2015

eXtyles User Group Meeting 2015 (Cambridge, MA)	November 12-13, 2015	Deborah A. Lapeyre Manipulating XML Content: The Concepts and Practice of XSLT (post-conference tutorial)
XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 13-18, 2015	Deborah A. Lapeyre Hands-on Introduction to XML
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015	August 11-14, 2015	B. Tommie Usdin The art of the elevator pitch (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol15.Usdin01)
Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup	August 10, 2015
Workshop on Common Models and APIs for Data Publishing and Citation (preceding Dataverse Community Meeting 2015) (IQSS, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)	June 9, 2015	Deborah A. Lapeyre Including Data in the Standardized Markup for Journal Articles (NISO JATS)
JATS-Con (Journal Article Tag Suite Conference) (Natcher Conference Center on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD)	April 21-22, 2015	B. Tommie Usdin, Deborah A. Lapeyre, and Carter M. Glass Superimposing Business Rules on JATS
	April 20, 2015	B. Tommie Usdin and Deborah Lapeyre What’s New in JATS since 1.0? (tutorial)

2014

eXtyles User Group Meeting 2014 (Cambridge, MA)	November 13-14, 2014	Deborah A. Lapeyre Schematron for QA and Reporting (post-conference tutorial)
XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 14-19, 2014	Deborah A. Lapeyre Hands-on Introduction to XML
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2014	August 5-8, 2014
HTML5 and XML: Mending Fences, a Balisage pre-conference symposium	August 4, 2014
JATS-Con (Journal Article Tag Suite Conference) (Natcher Conference Center on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD)	April 1-2, 2014	B. Tommie Usdin When the “One Size Fits Most” tagset doesn’t fit you
	March 31, 2014	B. Tommie Usdin and Deborah Lapeyre Introduction to the Book Interchange Tag Suite (tutorial)

2013

eXtyles User Group Meeting 2013 (Cambridge, MA)	November 14-15, 2013	Deborah A. Lapeyre JATS and BITS Update
Impromptu JATS Users Group Meeting (Washington, DC)	October 22, 2013	Meeting Proceedings
XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 15-20, 2013	Deborah A. Lapeyre Hands-on Introduction to XML
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2013	August 6-9, 2013	B. Tommie Usdin The semantics of “semantic” (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol10.Usdin01)
International Symposium on Native XML User Interfaces	August 5, 2013
Information Standards Quarterly	Spring 2013, 25(1): 19-21	B. Tommie Usdin JATS: A New Standard from an Old Specification (doi:10.3789/isqv25no1.2013.04)

2012

BITS — JATS for Books (free seminar on Book Interchange Tag Suite)	December 18, 2012 November 29, 2012	B. Tommie Usdin and Deborah A. Lapeyre
JATS-Con (Journal Article Tag Suite Conference) (Natcher Conference Center on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD)	October 16-17, 2012	Silvio Peroni, Deborah Lapeyre, and David Shotton Mapping JATS to RDF using the SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies
	October 15, 2012	Deborah Lapeyre Introduction to Schematron (tutorial)
XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 16-21, 2012	Deborah A. Lapeyre Hands-on Introduction to XML
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2012	August 7-10, 2012	B. Tommie Usdin Things change, or, the “real meaning” of technical terms (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol8.Usdin01)
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2012	August 7-10, 2012	Wendell Piez Luminescent: Parsing LMNL by XSLT upconversion (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol8.Piez01)
International Symposium on Quality Assurance and Quality Control in XML	August 6, 2012
Workshop on Data Modeling and Knowledge Organization in the Humanities (Brown University, Providence, RI)	March 2012	Wendell Piez Data Modeling in the Humanities: Three Questions and One Experiment

2011

JATS-Con (Journal Article Tag Suite Conference) (Natcher Conference Center on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD)	September 26-27, 2011	Deborah A. Lapeyre Introduction to Multi-language Documents in NISO JATS
		Wendell Piez Taming the Beast: JATS data, non-JATS data, and XML Namespaces
		B. Tommie Usdin The future of the JATS: the probable, the possible, and the unlikely
XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 18-23, 2011	Deborah A. Lapeyre Hands-on Introduction to XML
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011	August 2-5, 2011	B. Tommie Usdin Serendipity (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol7.Usdin01)
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011	August 2-5, 2011	Wendell Piez Generic microformats for coverage, comprehensiveness, and adaptability (doi:10.4242/BalisageVol7.Piez01)
International Symposium on Document-oriented XML: A working session on identifying attainable expectations	August 1, 2011

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
	November 1-2, 2010	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)
XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 5-10, 2010	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”)
NISO Update at 2010 ALA Annual Conference	June 27, 2010	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)
XML Summer School (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)	September 20-25, 2009	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)
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009	August 11-14, 2009	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, NC)	July 27-28, 2009	Deborah A. Lapeyre Introduction to Schematron
Summer XML 2009 Conference (Raleigh, NC)	July 27-28, 2009	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
Amsterdam Overlap Workshop	December 1-5, 2008	Wendell Piez LMNL in Miniature
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
XML 2007	December 3-5, 2007	Deborah A. Lapeyre and Wendell Piez Introductory Schematron (tutorial)
Text Encoding Initiative 7th Annual Member’s Meeting	October 31 - November 3, 2007	B. Tommie Usdin TEI at 20: Congratulations! The Next 20 Will Tell the Tale
Text Encoding Initiative 7th Annual Member’s Meeting	October 31 - November 3, 2007	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 15, 2006	Deborah A. Lapeyre Converting HTML to XML
		Deborah A. Lapeyre The Real Basics of XSLT 1.0
	March 14, 2006	Deborah A. Lapeyre The Complete XPath 1.0
Xplor 2006	February 3, 2006	B. Tommie Usdin Why XML for Print?
		Deborah A. Lapeyre XML in Print Production
	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 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)
DC XML Users Group	January 18, 2006	Deborah A. Lapeyre and Wendell Piez Introduction to XPath 2.0

2005

XML 2005	Nov. 17, 2005	Wendell Piez XSLT Throughout the Document Lifecycle
	Nov. 17, 2005	B. Tommie Usdin W3C XML Schema; RELAX NG; Schematron; or DTD: How’s a User to choose?
	Nov. 16, 2005	B. Tommie Usdin XML Masters Series: Document Publishing (panelist)
	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)
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
Extreme Markup Languages^® 2005	Aug. 1-5, 2005	Wendell Piez Format and Content: Can they be separated? Should they be?
Tri-XML	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

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
Tri-XML 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