(for: executives and business implementers)

Digital Assets
Chair: Marion Elledge, Senior Vice President, Information Technologies, GCA, USA

Digital Asset Management, XML, Rich Media, DRM and a Traditional Business Value: Profit
Matthew Wallis , General Manger, European Operations, Artesia Technologies, United Kingdom
This session examines recent Digital Asset Management initiatives undertaken by Random House, a Bertelsmann Company, General Motors and a major global music supplier to integrate their traditional and emerging e-business units. The results show that by building a platform that can integrate what is often treated as two distinct businesses, efficiency and profits increase while risk and waste are dramatically reduced.

Managing Intellectual Property Resources Using the DOI System
Eamonn Neylon, Consultant, International DOI Foundation, United Kingdom
The DOI System supports management of distributed intellectual property resources on networks by maintaining state data and providing a resolution service. It is used to enable linking between millions of journal articles within the CrossRef application. This presentation provides an overview of the DOI System and demonstrations of its capabilities.

(for: executives and business implementers)

Building Trust Infrastructures - Legal and Business Imperatives
Chair: Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, LL.D., Associate Professor, The Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute, Sweden

Trusted Documents
Written by Nicklas Lundblad, Viktoria Institute/Framkom, Sweden; Presented by Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg

Automated Trust Mechanisms
Greg A. FitzPatrick, Chief Scientist, Metamatrix, Sweden
This paper is concerned with automated trust mechanisms and their effect upon transaction costs

The Status/Design of XML Signatures and Encryption
Joseph M. Reagle, Jr., Policy Analyst, W3C/LCS/MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Mr. Reagle will present a brief overview of the design, features, and status of the IETF/W3C XML Signature and W3C Encryption Activities.

XML Metadata for Accessing Heterogeneous Legal Databases
Pasi T. Tiitinen, Researcher, University of Jyväskylä, Finland; Additional authors: Virpi A. Lyytikäinen, Researcher, University of Jyväskylä, Finland; Airi T. Salminen, Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
Problems related to the Web access of European legal information were studied in a project funded by the EU. The paper describes the special needs for the metadata and an XML-based model for it, which was implemented in an integrated EULEGIS system.

The Quest of Standardising Law. LegalXML and LeXML.
Peter Ebenhoch, XML-Consulant, epico Informationssysteme GmbH, Austria
Since 1998, LegalXML/LeXML have been working to develop new XML-based standards for law. The possibility to represent legal structures with XML creates new tools and communication-mechanisms and asks for a new relationship of legal and technical norms.

(for: executives and business implementers)

Web Services – a Business Perspective
Chair: Marion Elledge, Vice President, Information Technologies, GCA, USA

XML Web Services - A Business Perspective
James Tauber, Director of XML Technology, Bowstreet, USA
In this session, we will discuss the business and IT benefits of XML-based Web services. We will also explain the technology requirements for a Web services solution and provide examples of this dramatically different style of computing.

Connecting Trading Partners and Marketplaces with UDDI
Claus von Riegen, XML Architect, SAP AG, Germany
UDDI, for Universal Description, Discovery and Integration, is a standardized specification for business and service directories. In this session, learn more about the benefits of UDDI and the use cases for trading partners and marketplaces.