Wednesday, 14 June

Chair: Robin Tomlin, Principal Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers, USA

Mobile access to the Web on a variety of non-PC devices is the goal of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and Wireless Markup Language (WML). This session starts with how XML is used in mobile applications and finishes with a discussion of how a single source of information can be tailored for delivery to or gathering of data from a specific device.

Mobile commerce and WML
Kimmo Rytkönen, Consultant, TietoEnator Oyj, Finland
The usage of WML on mobile applications is one of the newest and most promising application areas of XML, and a mobile access to companies' information systems offers a great number of new business opportunities. WAP can be seen as a completely new information channel for service providers and information consumers.

Data gathering using wireless technologies
Simon Groves, Consultant, OpenMIND Consulting, UK
As the number of non-PC devices accessing the internet increases, the ability to use a single-source of information that can be tailored to the device accessing it increases. The presentation outlines how this can be achieved, with particular focus on data gathering.

Chair: Simon Nicholson, Market Development Manager, Sun Microsystems, USA

Continuing the series of sessions for managers, speakers provide insight into how many of the standards and technologies discussed in the previous panel are being used in business today.

An authoring tool for building flexible on-line courses using XML
Laura Farinetti, Researcher, Dip Automatica e Informatica - Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Florin Bota, Teaching assistant, Department of Computer Science - Babes-Bolyai University, Romania; Additional author: Anca Rarau, PhD student, Computer Science Department - Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
XML, XSL and DTDs can be used to define the structure of flexible and modular on-line educational courses. This presentation describes the design and the implementation of an authoring tool for producing on-line courses, flexible enough to adapt to a number of different user profiles, that have different entry levels in terms of already acquired knowledge, and different learning goals. This tool is a friendly, educational-oriented authoring environment that allows the teacher to create courses that contain texts, images, audio, video, and hyperlinks without any professional computer skills.

Planning a new type of literary edition: the Thomas Mann project
Ingrid Schmidt, Senior Information Architect, VIA, Germany; Carolin Müller, Information Architect, VIA, Germany
The constantly changing requirements of today's media landscape demand a new concept for literary editions. Such a forward-looking model should be SGML/XML-based, and should acknowledge the central importance of Topic Maps. In this respect, the Thomas Mann project combines in a unique way the work of one of the most famous authors of the 20th century with an innovative way of information organization.

Designing a dynamic XML website
Daniel Riggs, Consultant, OpenMIND Consulting, UK
A case study for business managers, demonstrating the issues involved in designing a dynamic website using 100% XML.

From harried to harmonious: the conference proceedings story
Chris Moffett, Director of Professional Services, Arbortext, Inc, USA
For any delegate who wants to learn how XML was used to create the conference proceedings.

0900 - 1230
XML & eBusiness: B2B integration
(For: business implementers)

Chair: Nick Arnold, Director of Strategic Business Consulting, iMediation, USA

This track covers the principal issues of integrating business processes based on XML and related technologies. Speakers address general questions of methodology as well as offer concrete examples from cases studies.

Effective strategies for integrating businesses on the Net using XML
David Burdett, Lead Scientist, Commerce One, USA
Many businesses plan to use eCommerce to connect their accounting and ERP systems to their business partners. However, connecting systems together is neither easy nor straightforward. Unless systems can communicate properly and effectively, the anticipated business benefits will not arise. Many people agree that XML has a major role to play in making this happen. This presentation will describe approaches and strategies to make it work effectively.

XML and XSL for managing eCommerce partnerships
Regis Baudu, Director Research and Development, iMediation, France; Sophie Gamerman, Product Manager, iMediation, France
Managing business partnerships on the web is important to more and more eCommerce sites. Developing a platform to automatically manage these relationships brings several technical requirements. This presentation explains the environment, the requirements and shows why and how the combined use of XML, XSL and Java is the right choice of architecture. It also describes the issues the developers have to face and what we expect to see soon in the XML standards

Business process integration through XML
Robert Skinstad, Sr Director PSO, Europe, Sweden
The value of XML is ultimately found in a reduction of costs associated with establishing cross-enterprise and cross-platform interoperability for trading partners, while leveraging and extending legacy infrastructures as well as investments in existing eCommerce architectures. The delegates will learn how XML can be deployed with existing eBusiness infrastructure, and result in savings of millions of dollars a year in process improvements.

Business case and technical issues using XML for supply chain integration
El Smith, Global Technology Manager, Valley Forge Technical Information Services, GmbH, Germany
There is a strong business case for integrating suppliers, customers and partners into a seamless supply chain. The advantages are dramatic, reducing time and costs while increasing quality. You've heard about it -- now learn the detailed business case, and how to do it, using XML, which is an ideal technology for it.

0900 - 1230
Topic Maps: a user perspective
(For: business implementers)

Chair: Guy Fermon, TechnoForum, France

Topic Maps, a recently released ISO standard is one of the most exciting topics of the year. This session provides users with an introduction to and overview of the subject, a discussion of the practical implementation of Topic Maps, and a case study of Topic Maps in action.

The TAO of Topic Maps
Steve Pepper, Senior Information Architect, STEP Infotek, Norway
Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. Dubbed "the GPS of the information universe", topic maps are destined to provide powerful new ways of navigating large and complex corpora. This presentation provides a non-technical introduction to the basic concepts, shows some areas of application, and discusses the relationship to the W3C's RDF standard.

Topic Maps go XML
Michel Biezunski, Consultant, Infoloom, France; Steven R Newcomb, President, TechnoTeacher, Inc, USA
The Topic Maps paradigm standardized in ISO/IEC 13250:1999 constitutes a compelling technical, political, and economic development in which a lot of news is being made, and in which significant activities are ongoing. This paper attempts to present the news about topic maps in an accessible fashion, with enough basic technical information to make the news understandable.

Topic Map cartography - a discussion of practical methods of authoring and maintaining Topic Maps
Colin Baird, Web Developer, STEP UK Ltd, United Kingdom
Topic Maps, implemented through the ISO/IEC 13250 standard, are designed to facilitate the organisation and navigation of large collections of information objects by creating meta-level perspectives of their underlying concepts and relationships. This paper will examine the issues involved in using the standard to create Topic Maps that enable this objective. As a so far unproved new technology, the presentation aims to begin the process of establishing 'good practice' methods for creating and maintaining these meta-level perspectives.

Topic Maps in an encyclopedic online information platform
Heinz Wittenbrink, wissen.de Product Management, Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Germany
Abstract not available.

0900 - 1230
XML & digital printing: XML for publishing & printing industries
(For: all delegates)

Chair: Nils Enlund, Professor, The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

XML is a family of metadata and web standards that will play a major role in web, cross-media and print publishing. This session and its conclusion in the afternoon will cover various aspects of content management, media production, output and delivery in web media, and digital printing systems.

Widely Distributed Digital Printing
Kenneth M Brooks, Jr, Vice President, Digital Content, Barnes & Noble, Inc, USA
With the advent of on-demand printing and fulfillment of books centrally and at point-of-purchase, digital printing is poised to take the book publishing and retailing industries by storm. This presentation will address some of the challenges we're facing in the management of a large-scale distributed printing application across a wide variety of print engines.

XML-based IFRAtrack - the glue for integration in business-wide media workflow management systems
Stig Nordqvist, PhD, CIO, Göteborgs-Posten Group, Sweden; Additional authors: Johan Stenberg, PhD, Managing Director, MWM AB, Sweden; Fredrik Fällström, PhD, Development Manager, MWM AB, Sweden
Content management and production processes in the media industry are becoming more complex. This puts new demands on management and creates new possibilities of intersystem integration. The new XML-based IFRAtrack recommendation is a tracking information interchange mechanism for integrating production management systems in the media industry.

Electronic book conversion and manufacturing using embedded tagging tools
William J Ray , PhD, President, Group InfoTech, Inc, USA
Large scale OCR conversion of out-of-print books has become both economically viable and desirable with the advent of internet distribution and the general availability of both print-on-demand (POD) systems and the E-book. This paper describes a new manufacturing and embedded tagging process associated with the conversion of data from physical pages to tagged electronic files. The paper, specifically, describes a set of new tagging tools that allow the user to provide for significantly reduced cost for tag creation.

Modules for an XML schema in the book-on-demand process
A.C. Hübler, Director of Institute, Chemnitz Technical University & K. Kreülich, Academic, Chemnitz Technical University, Institute for Print- and Media Technology, Germany
XML provides new opportunities for Book-on-Demand applications, in particular it directly supports subtler content management methods for individual user requirements. The presentation illustrates how to use and implement these capabilities.

0900 - 1230
Technical theory & practice
(For: technical implementers)

Chair: Norbert Mikula, Chief Technology Officer, DataChannel, USA

This track is not for the faint of heart (or mind)! If thinking about XML tokenizers, the DOM, XML property objects and XML real-time processing keeps you awake at night, then this is the exactly the right track for you.

An extensible model for real-time XML processing
Dan Rosen, Brown University Dept of Computer Science, & Senior Software Developer, Yomu, USA
Some XML-based languages have both defined content and behavior: for example, MathML, which defines both a set of XML tags and what an application should render when it encounters those tags. Although the XML specification defines how content must be processed, no standard exists to define how applications must handle behavior, especially when multiple behaviors must interact: for example, when MathML and XHTML are part of the same document. This paper solves this problem by defining a standard processing model capable of handling any number of XML-based languages' behaviors concurrently.

XML Property Objects
Paul Prescod, Consulting Engineer, ISOGEN International, USA
Integrate data binding, object oriented programming, RDF, Groves, relational databases and XML through a new abstraction-defining schema language called "XML Property Objects".

Programming XML: using the DOM
Lauren Wood, Director of Product Technology, SoftQuad Software Inc, Canada
More and more businesses are using XML as the syntax language of choice for marking up information in such a way that software and systems can easily process it. The W3C Document Object Model is one of the most popular choices for accessing and manipulating this information. This talk not only tells delegates the current status of the specification, it also shows some of the new, interesting, and useful things that businesses and programmers are doing with the DOM.

Managing tokenizers in XML search
Jacek R Ambroziak, Staff Engineer/XML Software, XML Technology Center, Sun Microsystems, USA
Tokenization is a critical dependency in full-text indexing. It is a demanding process, sometimes requiring, for example, the application of different rules and supporting data to process different sections within the same document. This presentation describes an approach that harnesses the power of Java to manage the tokenization process of XML documents.

1100 - 1230
O'Reilly Media Panel

Is WAP Necessary?

The Wireless Application Protocol is all the buzz in the tech trades this season. But what does it offer that isn't currently available to wireless users? Is it a natural migration, or a proprietary ploy?

Join the panel discussion in Salle 253.

1100 - 1230
Linking technologies
(For: technical implementers)

Chair: Thomas Jell, Principal Consultant, Siemens, SBS EBS, Germany

This session addresses the use of linking, from the relationship of linking to such varied topics as sitemaps and directory services, to the use of linking as an alternative for standard external entity management.

A common ground: the whole-part information set
Didier Martin, CEO, Talva Corp, Canada
Is there any similarities between topic maps, site maps, tables of content, parts catalogs and directory services? The answer is yes. Learn how Xlink and RDF could be used to solve this enigma and hear more about whole-part information sets.

External entities and alternatives
Karen Lease, Senior Software Engineer, Valley Forge Technical Information Services/SPX FRANCE, France
This talk weighs the pros and cons of standard external entity management versus the mechanisms proposed by XML Linking working group (XLink and XInclude). Examples discuss the use of the SAX EntityResolver interface as well as application-specific schemes for including external content.

1430 - 1540
XML & the law
(For: executives)

Chair: Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, LL D, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, Sweden

The popularity of the Web as a publishing medium highlights the legal issues surrounding electronic access to intellectual assets. This panel examines how use of XML may be protected by intellectual property rights and generally enhance eCommerce capabilities, especially if the legal issues are considered early in the design of a system.

XML related intellectual assets
Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, LL D, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, Sweden
Information and technical applications on the Internet have come to represent great economic values. At the same time it is a well known fact that the Web and similar digital networks challenge the conventional ways of understanding and managing intellectual property rights. This gives rise to a need for legal advise, but precise answers are rarely found in the law itself. In this context, awareness of the predominating legal principles for protecting DTDs and schemas, stylesheets, markup, etc. already during system development may reduce the uncertainty.

Next generation eCommerce and law - understanding the legal issues in the design of XML-based standards for eCommerce
Nicklas Lundblad, E-commerce Analyst and Research Programme Director, E-commerce, Institute for Media Technology & Swedish Office of Science and Technology, Sweden
Today several different XML-based standards for electronic commerce are available. The legal analysis of these standards is crucial to the understanding of future problems and possibilities of the wide area of applications in the eCommerce space. By examining standards such as CBL 2.0, cXML, ebXML and eCo, we can construct a set of basic questions that should be asked in the implementation of XML-based electronic markets and systems, thus integrating the legal issues into the system design process.

1430 - 1540
Registries & repositories
(For: business implementers)

Chair: Dianne Kennedy, Executive Director, IDEAlliance Independent Consultants Cooperative, USA

In the past year, one of the most exciting new developments has been the announcement of a number of registries and repositories for schemas and DTDs. This session provides a brief introduction of the topic followed by briefings on two of the most prominent registries, XML.org and BizTalk.org.

BizTalk.org – a briefing
Neil Hutson, Biztalk Application Architect, Microsoft, USA

XML.org: a progress report on the OASIS registry and repository
Una Kearns, XML Architect, Documentum, Inc, USA; Simon Nicholson, Market Development Manager, Sun Microsystems, USA

1430 - 1540
XML vocabularies
(For: business implementers)

Chair: Laura Walker, Executive Director, OASIS, USA

One of the fundamental components of eCommerce is the ability for trading partners to easily and quickly transfer meaningful information. Vertical industry vocabularies address the issue of semantics within a known group. This session provides a look at how two industries, insurance and travel, are developing and using vocabularies to improve and enhance business processes.

Towards XML standards in the insurance industry
John Kemble, Manager, Electronic Commerce, Association of British Insurers, UK
Communications standards have traditionally been fragmented in the insurance industry, with little co-ordination between areas that are geographically separate, between different lines of business and between different business functions. XML could provide both a rationale and ability to break down those barriers - but only if the industry is prepared to face up to the challenges this opportunity presents.

How the OpenTravel Alliance is agreeing an XML vocabulary for multiple industries - airlines, hotels, etc.
Nick Lanyon, Chairman, Lanyon Inc, UK
The OpenTravel Alliance has been working on an XML specification (tags, DTDs, infrastructure, etc.) for use across the widely-defined travel industry since May 1999. Several political, organisational, and technical obstacles had to be overcome to enable it, working with its 100 member organisations (airlines, hotel chains, travel agencies, Global Distribution Systems, software companies, companies with large numbers of 'managed' travelers, etc.), to publish Version 1 of its specification for public review in February 2000.

1430 - 1720
eBusiness: a technical perspective
(For: technical implementers)

Chair: Dr Eduardo Barrera, General Secretary of Commercenet Spain and acting Commercenet Europe Executive Director, ECTF International President, Spain

This session provides the technical delegate with a look at the impact of schema design on eCommerce applications, continues with discussions on viable architectures and the use of APIs, and concludes with a review of the Information for Content Exchange (ICE) reference implementation.

XML schema design for business-to-business eCommerce
Arofan Gregory, Lead Scientist, Commerce One, USA
XML schema languages allow XML-based business documents to leverage the best features of EDI, while enhancing usability in many ways. They also provide some features that have never existed in terms of real-time extensibility and default processing. This presentation discusses how XML schema design is critical to the succesful implementation of interoperable B2B trading systems.

XML lessons for master eBuilders: using XML effectively in eBusiness architectures
Ronald Bodkin, Chief Technologist, C-bridge Internet Solutions, Inc, USA
As XML is incorporated into the foundation of eBusiness applications in increasing numbers and greater variety, it is critical that developers have an understanding of how and where it is most effective and how it contributes to the overall success of their implementations. This presentation will discuss how to decide where to use XML in architecture, how to integrate transactions between business partners, and approaches to selecting and designing vocabularies. It will also discuss architectural patterns for leveraging XML, patterns for effective implementation, and skill sets for teaching others a critical part of successfully using XML.

Implementing an XML API for an n-tier eCommerce application
Kristie Hooker, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Beyond.com, USA
With the ability to precisely describe data with a well-defined DTD, using an XML API for data interchange offers many advantages. Implementers can be assured of high data integrity and be confident of the proper execution of business systems. This is extremely applicable for n-tier eCommerce systems that pass data between many sources. In this presentation, the audience will learn what is needed to implement an XML API in an n-tier architecture as the primary source of interchange.

ICE Reference Implementation
Dianne Kennedy, Executive Director, IDEAlliance Independent Consultants Cooperative, USA
This technical presentation explains the public domain software being made available to developers thanks to the ICE working group of IDEAlliance.

1430 - 1720
Topic Maps: the technical side
(For: technical implementers)

Chair: Steve Pepper, Senior Information Architect, STEP Infotek, Norway; Steven R Newcomb, President, TechnoTeacher, Inc, USA

The Topic Maps paradigm is both simple and subtle. Well-used, it can greatly increase the findability of information in our increasingly complex and information-flooded world. This session focuses on the challenges and lore of using the Topic Maps paradigm well.

Using Topic Maps for the representation, management and discovery of knowledge
Eric Freese, Director of Consulting Services - Midwest Region, ISOGEN International, USA
Topic Maps provide a powerful new capability to add intelligence to information without modifying the source. This presentation discusses how that intelligence, as well as the knowledge stored within documents, can be captured and used to build a knowledge base. A demonstration system will show how the knowledge base can be used in the management and presentation of information.

Towards knowledge organization with Topic Maps
Alexander Sigel, MA, Researcher, Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften, Germany
With Topic Maps you can define arbitrarily complex knowledge structures and attribute them as metadata to information resources. Decentrally creating, maintaining and exchanging even more heterogeneous metadata is a powerful basic service of high interest for a broad range of applications. However, sooner or later you have to cope with the new semantic heterogeneity and come up with strategies to achieve better semantic interoperability. Therefore, this talk takes a "knowledge organization" perspective. It sketches typical scenarios from that domain in which Topic Maps can be of use, shows how classical knowledge organization challenges reappear with Topic Maps, and gives first recommendations on approaches and further directions for organizing knowledge with Topic Maps.

The answer is just a question [of Topic Maps matching]
Rafal Ksiezyk, Managing Director, STEP Poland Ltd, Poland
The expressive power of Topic Maps, commonly perceived as a method for indexing of information resources, places the standard very close to artificial intelligence and knowledge modelling. Topic Maps resemble semantic networks and conceptual graphs, but offer more - a unique, standards-based way of encoding and exchange of knowledge. Starting from a description of the AI aspects of Topic Maps, this presentation demonstrates the practical benefits they provide. Further, it will focus on applications in information filtering and retrieval using a topic-map-defined user profile.

Topic Map technology - the state of the art
Graham Moore, Chief Technical Officer, STEP UK Ltd, United Kingdom
Topic Maps are being embraced by a wide number of organisations throughout the world. Companies and individuals have realised how the power of Topic Maps can help them solve their information problem. However, in order to make the vision a reality there must be software that supports the Topic Map paradigm. This paper presents a look at Topic Map technology, asking questions about what it should, could and does do. It presents the cutting edge of Topic Map development.

1430 - 1720
XML & digital printing: management of digital printing (TAGA)
(For: all delegates)

Chair: Simo Karttunen, Professor DTech, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

XML is a family of metadata and web standards that will play a major role in web, cross-media and print publishing. This session and its predecessor in the morning will cover various aspects of content management, media production, output and delivery in web media and digital printing systems.

PPML (Personalized Printing Markup Language) - a new industry standard print language
Dave deBronkart, Senior Consultant, Print On Demand Initiative (PODi), USA; Peter Davis, Principal Consulting Software Engineer, Pageflex, Inc, USA
Personalized printing (also known as variable data printing, variable info printing, etc.) is the highest-value application for high quality full color digital printing: it allows creation of brochures, mail shots, menus etc. that are attention-getting because they are truly personalized, with variable content selected for the interests of the individual. But until now personalization has only been possible through proprietary, closed systems, which has restricted buyers' choice of software and machinery. This session presents PPML, a brand-new XML-based industry standard printer language defined by PODi, an industry-wide consortium of 13 companies for variable data printing.

Book ticket files and imposition templates for variable data printing: fundamentals for PPML
Dirk De Bosschere, Systems Development Manager - Digital Printing Systems, Barco Graphics, Digital Printing Systems, Belgium
Barco's has a reputation of building innovative solutions and products for Personalized and Digital Printing. Long before the PPML standard (Personalized Printing Markup Language) was built, Barco understood the appropriateness for using XML in describing personalized documents and how pages are to be 'imposed' on digital presses. This presentation amplifies on the 'Book Ticket Files' and 'Imposition Templates', and their concepts that contributed to the PPML standard.

Selecting and utilizing metadata of news articles
Asta Bäck, Senior Research Scientist, VTT Information Technology, Finland
During the publishing process metadata are needed for different purposes. This paper lists these and analyses various metadata dictionaries with regard to the metadata aspects they cover. This paper reports a case implementation where metadata are used to support electronic publishing services for end-users and editors. Some of the metadata are created explicitly and some are collected semiautomatically or automatically. It concludes with experiences gained from using this metadata and processing the actual XML-articles for rendering.

Finishing technologies in digital printing: making digitally printed documents professional
Anastasios Politis, Research Scientist, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Greece
The increased use of digital printing systems has necessitated the development of new finishing and binding systems for the documents that are digitally printed. A quite important issue on finishing technologies for digital printing systems is the requirement for digitally printed documents to be as good, look as "professional" and function as the traditionally finished ones. This presentation reviews this and other issues for digitial printing systems.

1610 - 1720
XML & the enterprise
(For: executives)

Moderator: Adrian Rivers, Managing Director, RivCom, UK

Panel members:

Pam Gennusa, European Representative, OASIS, UK
Norbert Mikula, Chief Technology Officer, DataChannel, USA
Klaus Müller, Branch Head, NATO C3 Agency, The Netherlands

It is now generally accepted that XML will become established as a key enabler for Web and Internet- based enterprise information exchange and distributed computing. However, it is difficult to know how best to adopt a technology that has a role to play in so many aspects of an enterprise's information and IT architecture. Based on the results of an important W3C-sponsored workshop of XML practioners, this panel discussion will identify a clear map that helps identify the options that are available for any organisation that is establishing a strategy for XML implementation, but also dynamically demonstrates the divergent views that exist as to the best route that should be taken on that map

1610 - 1720
Making it personal with XML
(For: business implementers)

Chair: Paula Angerstein, Principal XML Architect, Vignette Corporation, USA

Getting the right information to the right audience - personalization - is challenging businesses around the world. This session starts with an overview of a new standardization effort for privacy-enabled interchange of customer data among applications and concludes with an examination of how XML can facilitate localization and personalization.

The Customer Profile Exchange Standard (CPexchange)
Brad Husick, VP Standards & Evangelism (co-chairman, CPexchange marketing committee), Vignette Corporation, USA
This session will explain the Customer Profile Exchange standard now under development by a consortium of companies including IBM, Oracle, Sun/Netscape and others. CPexchange is an XML-based set of global standards for the privacy-enabled interchange of customer data among applications.

International eCom: using XML to personalize and localize Web sites
Matthew Price, Director of Market Strategy, Art Technology Group, UK
This presentation examines how XML is fast becoming the international standard for publishing, content syndication and exchange. Mr. Price explores how the use of XML can facilitate localization to reach a global audience that speaks different languages and sites case studies offering practical ways for organizations to reduce time-to-market for developing localized, dynamic web pages that speak directly to customers worldwide.

1610 - 1720
PRISM & NewsML
(For: business implementers)

Moderator: Laura Walker, Executive Director, OASIS, USA

Panel members:

David Allen, Managing Director, International Press Telecommunications Council, UK
Linda Burman, President, L A Burman Associates, Canada

XML is an enabling technology, but without industry standard vocabularies, its usefulness is diminished. This panel will describe two such vocabularies - NewsML and PRISM - and describe how together, they faciliate eCommerce in the publishing industry.

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