2025 Call for Papers

This year's theme is, well, markup!

In previous years, we've suggested themes, ideas and topics focussing on some area of interest within markup, hopefully making the a potential presenter's job easier while, at the same time, providing the conference with a coherent, overarching story. 2023's theme, for example was markup quality assurance, a topic as important now as it was two years ago.

But the fact is that themes in later years have seldom proved to be key; they are simply not as useful as they once were. XML, for example, entered mainstream a long time ago. Other markup languages followed; JSON, for example, has its uses and the question should we use JSON in place of XML? surely is no longer relevant. Etc.

So, what should you talk about at Markup UK? Well, for starters, do you agree? Or do you think XML failed, as a paper presented at a sister conference once claimed? Do you think markup should be invisible? Is markup dying? Is the future of markup in AI? Or would you rather focus on the community aspects, say, about how to bring in new blood to the field?

Let us know.