07.30-19.00 Registration

E- executives BI - business implementers TI- technical implementers A- all delegates

SID01 XML EXECUTIVE BRIEFING DAY [E/BI] - ROOM 19

09.00-17.30

Chair: Dianne Kennedy, Chief Technical Consultant, IDEAlliance.org, USA
This day is devoted to executives and business implementers who are new to XML. It provides an overview of XML and related standards, with a strong emphasis on how XML can be and is being used as a tool to improve business processes.

Presentations:

Introduction to XML
Adrian Rivers, Managing Director, RivCom, United Kingdom
This presentation sets the scene for those new to XML, orientating participants to the key concepts, terms and issues that will pervade the conference as a whole. The session includes a description of the key features of XML together with a survey of the status and function of key XML-related standards, vocabularies and schemas. Mr. Rivers demonstrates the breadth of use to which XML is being put and discusses a range of the issues that anyone seeking gain business benefit from the adoption of XML should consider. The programme for XML Europe is reviewed and relevant topics and issues of interest to newcomer are pointed out.

10.30-11.00 Break

Building Convincing Business Cases
John Evdemon, Chief Architect, XMLSolutions Corporation, USA
This presentation examines possible scenarios for utilizing XML within your company. Mr. Evdemon covers topics such as lowering internal costs, systems integration, benefits, strategic advantages, best practices and more issues that are relevant to project managers and decision-makers in corporate management.

The XML Roadmap
Dianne Kennedy, Chief Technical Consultant, IDEAlliance.org, USA
In 1996 the Internet was based on a single language. That language was HTML, Hypertext Markup Language. By 1997, new standards, including CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and XML (Extensible Markup Language) emerged. Today, the list of Web standards (and acronyms!) has exploded. It takes a virtual roadmap to enable one to navigate the tangle of standards and organizations that define them. This presentation provides an overview of the basic Web standards and then focuses on those standards that support vertical industry applications.

12.30-14.00 Buffet Lunch in Exhibits

XML's Promise: Delivering Customized Information Everywhere
PG Bartlett, Vice President Marketing, Arbortext, USA
The Web's promise is to make information available to everyone. The challenge is how to deliver custom information at a time, place & format of their choice. Mr. Bartlett explores best and worst case practices on how to implement an XML solution to stay ahead.

XML Usage Patterns
Eric Johnson, Senior Architect, TIBCO Extensibility Inc., USA
The flexible, but structured nature of XML documents leads to a variety of ways to implement XML effectively into your organization. XML is more than just a new way to transfer data - its true power is its ubiquity to transfer data, store configuration data, implement declarative or functional programming languages or describe data formats. This talk delves into the implementation strategies for XML that you may not have recognized, and some of the tools and design patterns that will speed your implementation of many different programming concepts.

15.30-16.00 Break in Exhibits

The XML Odyssey - Trials of XML Around the World
Dale Waldt, Principal, Alphaleon, Inc., USA
Just as Homer's hero Odysseus had to overcome many trials and tribulations, our intrepid XML explorers have had to face many obstacles. Sometimes XML seems more like a journey than a destination. Perhaps there is no Ithaca at the end of our story, but there are many interesting stories and applications today of XML in a wide range of business around the globe. Mr. Waldt will describe some of the obstacles we have faced and overcome, a cross section of interesting implementations of XML that have resulted from toiling in various corners of the XML world. And, hopefully, he will do this while not exposing a sophomoric understanding of ancient literature in the process. The objective of this presentation is to illustrate that others have faced challenges in implementing XML and to provide hope and momentum so that when you leave the conference you will be ready to face whatever the gods may throw at you.

Closing Discussion
Session Speakers

17.30-19.00 Reception in Exhibits

09.00-17.30

Chair: Bill Trippe, President, New Millenium Publishing and Associate Editor, The Gilbane Report, USA
XML has been bandied about as the panacea for just about every Web effort that organizations are undertaking. Content management is no exception. AIIM International presents a full-day educational program that will help you understand the real role XML can play in ECM (Enterprise Content Management). Topics will include what enterprise content management is, how both new and legacy data and document integration can be handled, what kinds of architectural approaches make sense for different types of content management business needs, and what the IT infrastructure ramifications are. These are some of the major challenges that must be addressed in order to use XML effectively. The program will be filled with real world advice, examples and case studies.

Presentations:

Introduction to the Day and Opening Remarks
John Symon, Senior Vice President, Europe, AIIM International, United Kingdom

XML & Content Management Special Interest Day
Bill Trippe, President, New Millenium Publishing and Associate Editor, The Gilbane Report, USA

The Ten Commandments of Content Management in a Database - Vest Pocket Edition
Michael P. Cvetan, CMS-Implementation Consultant, Progressive Information Technologies, USA
This session is a concise version of Ten Commandments (principles) that will insure the longevity of a designed or purchased content management solution.

10.30-11.00 Break

Understanding XML's Role in the New Technology Infrastructure
Bill Trippe, President, New Millenium Publishing and Associate Editor, The Gilbane Report, USA
In a few short years, XML has become the centerpiece in data architecture, as web-centric development seems to begin and end with XML. This tutorial will provide a solid grounding in XML and the related standards and developments, and will outline XML's expanding role in enterprise content management technology and applications.

XML Content Management: Challenges and Solutions
Nianjun Zhou, IBM Corporation, USA; Dikran Meliksetian, IBM Corporation, USA; Louis Weitzman, IBM Corporation, USA; Sara Elo Dean, IBM Corporation, USA; Jeff Milton, Razorfish, USA; Peter Davis, IBM Corporation, USA; Jessica Wu, IBM Corporation, USA
E-commerce presupposes dynamic and personalized presentation of information. In order to support an effective e-commerce environment, content on the Internet must be flexible and reusable. These characteristics can be supported if content on the Internet is highly modularized and richly tagged. We propose to use XML as the framework upon which to build a web content management system that supports these features. However, the design of such a system, where content is highly modularized and reusable, creates new challenges that have to be addressed. These challenges include finding relevant information fragments on demand, keeping track of the dependencies between fragments, transforming combinations of those fragments into viewable pages available to multiple device types, and designing a content creation tool that does not overwhelm the contributor with the details and the complexities of the underlying system. In this paper we describe these challenges and the solutions that we developed in the design of a web content management system based on XML, code-named Franklin.

12.30-14.00 Buffet Lunch in Exhibits

The Potential of XML within the Aeronautical Framework
Patricia François, Research Engineer, EADS Airbus SA, France; Frank Duluc, Research Engineer, EADS Airbus SA, France
Nowadays Airbus delivers SGML publications. XML could be the future aeronautical standard. We will detail opportunities and issues brought by the possible introduction of XML in our industrial context (volume, customization, high structuration, exchange).

Overcoming Objections to XML-Based Authoring Systems
Brian I. Buehling, Managing Director, Dakota Systems, USA
The recent influx of tools into the marketplace has provided many options for authoring documents directly in XML. This presentation explores the capabilities of these tools to help managers make better decisions when choosing an authoring platform.

15.30-16.00 Break in Exhibits

Internet Based Documentation Processing System
Parameshwor Karki, Daitec Co., Ltd., Japan
By providing an Internet based documentation processing system, resources can be mobilized from all over the world.

Content Management and XML
Paul G.L. Baan, Consultant Media, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, The Netherlands;
Marc Y. Speyer, Sr. Consultant Media, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, The Netherlands
The difference between content management systems and document management systems (which most content management systems are) lies in the appropriate use of XML related standards. This session presents how applying standards will enhance the value of your content.

17.30-19.00 Reception in Exhibits

09.00-17.30

Chair: Simo Karttunen, Professor Emeritus, DTech, Docent, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
XML, spawned from print production markup languages, has returned home and is now helping the print industries automate all aspects of the print publishing process. The Technical Association of the Graphic Arts (TAGA), sponsored by GCA and the International Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress (CIP4) association have teamed-up to put together a cross section of key developments with a focus on the many emerging XML technologies that can be applied to optimize the publishing process.

Presentations:

Publishing, Printing and Cross-Media Applications of XML - A Special Interest Day
Simo Karttunen, Professor DTech, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

A Framework for Value-Added Publishing Concepts
Klaus Kreulich, Researcher; Michael Reiche, Researcher; and Dr. Arved C. Hübler, Professor, Technical University Chemnitz, Germany
XML enables publishers to establish new business models for providing new products. This paper is about one way to do it.

Technical Overview of the Job Definition Format (JDF)
Markus Möller, Software Developer, MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG, Germany
The presentation will give an technical overview of the Job Definition Format (JDF), particularly the internal structure of this interchange data format that is based on XML. JDF is a new standard for the whole print industry driven by the CIP4 consortium. JDF covers the horizontal workflow
from the product definition over production to the delivery as well as the vertical communication in means of connecting production services with Management Information Systems (MIS).

10.30-11.00 Break

XML Schema for Job Definition Format
Graham Mann, Computer Scientist, Adobe Systems Europe Ltd, United Kingdom
This presentation will highlight the benefits that an XML schema will have for validation and conformance of Job Definition Format (JDF) documents. It will also describe the limitations of a JDF schema and how they have been addressed.

The Open Source JDF Parser Project
Rainer Prosi, Software Architect, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Germany
The presentation will give an overview over the JDF technology that will be available as C++ open source from the CIP4 consortium. This includes a XERCES-based JDF parser and a set of auxiliary utilities like PNG wrappers, HTTP classes etc.

12.30-14.00 Buffet Lunch in Exhibits

The PPML Print Language in XML Workflows for Digital Print
Dave deBronkart, Senior Consultant, Print On Demand Initiative (PODi), USA
PPML (Personalized Print Markup Language) is a new XML based print language developed by PODi (www.podi.org). Statements of support for PPML have been issued by most printing equipment vendors, including Adobe, Barco, CreoScitex, Electronics for Imaging, IBM, Indigo, NexPress, Xeikon, Xerox and more. This presentation will discuss how PPML can interact with XSL, XSLT, and FOP to generate highly personalized documents.In addition, PPML is working with CIP4's XML based JDF (Job Definition Format) method of defining print jobs for automated workflows.

How to Use XML and PDM in Document Production
Pekka Siltanen, Senior Research Scientist, VTT Information Technology, Finland; Markku Leikas, Development Manager of Product Data Systems, Metso Paper, Inc., Finland; Timo Syrjänen, Development Manager, Jaakko Pöyry Oy, Finland; Teppo Peltonen, Research Trainee, VTT Information Technology, Finland
The paper describes a document production system that uses PDM for storing XML documents and controlling document hierarchy of a configurable product. We also describe history and implementation details and practical advises how to implement such system.

15.30-16.00 Break in Exhibits

Exploring Human Capital Competence Within the Complex Cross-Media Publishing Environment
Anastasios Emm Politis, Research Scientist, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
The human capital competence within the publishing industry working environment, was based on the printed media qualifications and skills offered by the traditional education and training system, which is oriented within these fields. The application of new working tools like the XML, the Internet publishing and the new requirements for publishing both for printed and electronic media at the cross -media publishing environment, need to be administrated by human capital with new competence. Therefore, occurs the necessity for the reorientation of the human capital positions, tasks, duties and competence and its efficient and successful integration into the new workflow and working environment of the cross-media publishing.

PRISM and NewsML
Daniel Rivers-Moore, Director of New Technologies, RivCom, United Kingdom

XML and PDF: Case Studies in Publishing
Charles R. Myers, Technology Strategist, Adobe Systems, Inc., USA
Many questions revolve around content vs. formatting vs. presentation, and this is sometimes expressed as XML vs. PDF. This session will describe the uses of XML and PDF in Publishing, and recent Acrobat product capabilities and direction.

XAP, A Digital Asset Metadata Architecture Utilizing XML and RDF
Andrew Salop, Sr. Product Manager, Media Asset Management, Adobe Systems, Inc., USA
The overwhelming amount of digital content and media requires common metadata frameworks for the interface with content and asset management systems. Adobe will decribe a cross-product metadata architecture to address these issues.

17.30-19.00 Reception in Exhibits

09.00-17.30

Chair: Joachim Dudeck, Institute of Medical InformaticsJustus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany
XML is moving into the health care world, slowly but distinctly. In particular hospitals in the UK have already recognised the advantages of managing health care records by using the structuring, storage and retrieval tools of XML. Experiences of these pilot projects are an important part of our health care track today. Several other examples show an increasing usage of XML in Medicine. The world-wide most frequently used communication standard in health care, HL7 has published an already ANSI accredited document standard CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) using XML as the representation format of medical and administrative data. HL7 is also working on a proposal to apply XML as interchange format in their version 2.x messages and nevertheless HL7 has definitely agreed to use XML as the standard interchange format of the new model based version 3 messages.

In the United Kingdom, France and Germany XML is used for exchanging messages between hospitals and General Practitioners, a problem of increasing importance. A project team in Germany has elaborated a proposal to connect the HL7 world in hospitals with the BDT world, the standard in physicians office systems in Germany by using XML messages which are based on the described Clinical Document Architecture. Results of this project, the SCIPHOX project will be presented in this workshop. Another impressive example of XML application in health care has been currently presented by the CEN TC 251 project team PT44 which has published a proposal to map model based hierarchical messages (HDM) directly into XML.

Nevertheless the number of really operational applications is still limited. Even today we cannot assume that XML is generally accepted and applied in health care. There are at least three reasons which could explain this situation. Two of them will be overcome by the ongoing development of XML definitions and tools. The third reason has to be carefully considered within the XML community since the solution will require an active intervention.

First of all the XML standards are still not completely ready. Important parts like XML schema are becoming more stable but have not achieved the status of a finalised W3C recommendation. Several new features of XML schema like datatypes, the definition of constraints and the support of namespaces are quite essential in health care documents. When writing these lines the tools required for utilising these features are improving but are also mostly under development and still not really ready for routine use.

Secondly it becomes more and more aware that real applications of XML require an XML environment which has to be built up within health care facilities and networks. A complete range of tools ranging from powerful and user friendly XML editors, XML databases, XML interfaces, stylesheets up to linking and retrieval tools has to be provided and must be easily available and accessible. Here there are still important gaps which have to be filled.

The third reason seems to be that we still miss more comprehensive attempts to standardise the semantic meaning of XML objects like names of elements and attributes or structures of generally used simple and complex types in schematas. It is not useful if everybody is going to define commonly used types like addresses, person names or diagnosis and procedures in Medicine etc. in his own way, if everybody is going to use different names for elements and attributes with the same semantic meaning. XML schemata's will be designed in a much more bottom up approach than DTDs. Useful and rational definitions of XML schemata will therefore require such standard definitions. If they will not be provided in the near future it could easily occur that we end up with the Babylonian language diversity also in XML. The W3C has already successfully provided the syntactical part of the XML standard. The semantic relationship is still an open problem which has to be carefully considered in the future application of XML.

Nevertheless comparing the programs of the XML health care tracks of the last four meetings we can definitely see an impressive progress. The invading process of the XML technology lasts indeed longer than we all have expected. Working with XML is still a little bit of pioneering work, but the results are definitely proceeding.

This can in particular be seen in some of our presentations today which are entering a complete new area of XML application, the representation and utilising of medical knowledge by using XML structures. It is an important and growing concern of Medical Informatics to provide the healthcare practitioner with specific, problem related knowledge at the point of care. In healthcare most of this knowledge is still represented as textual information. It is always difficult to identify those parts of the medical knowledge which are really needed in a specific case or situation. XML seems to provide a reasonable way to structure this textually described knowledge for improving the access to problem relevant pieces of knowledge information. We will have impressive examples of this new and important approach in XML in presentations on structuring of medical guidelines, on the management of drug information and the mapping of medical classification system into topic maps which is another way of representing knowledge. These presentations show the important progress which have been made in XML applications in health care.

Presentations:

XML in Health Care
Joachim Dudeck, Institute of Medical InformaticsJustus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany

Important Step to Fill the Gap? - The German SCIPHOX Project
Kai U. Heitmann, University of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Cologne, Germany; Joachim Dudeck, Institute of Medical InformaticsJustus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany
The SCIPHOX project aims to close the gap between information systems in hospitals (HIS) and physician offices (POS) by providing an XML based method of communication.

Implementing an XML Content Management System for Drug Information
John J. Chelsom, Managing Director, CSW Informatics Ltd, United Kingdom; Eric Connor, Knowledge Systems Manager, Pharmaceutical Press, United Kingdom
XML and database technology combines to produce XML e-content that powers Internet, intranet and decision-support systems as well as traditional publishing to print.

10.25-10.45 Break

Medical Guideline Expression in/with XML
Guido Noelle, Manager, medicine online GmbH, Germany
Medical Guidelines become very important in healthcare, but they are big documents, without context to the actual patient situation. xml-internet/intranet applications enable medical decisions, which strongly belong to the special patient-context.

Using Validating Stylesheets with Healthcare Messages
Charles McCay, SCHIN, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
The ability to validate at source with a DTD or Schema is familiar but this can be extended with further validation tools. Practial examples will be shown of Schematron and XSLT to validate CEN13606-4 healthcare messages.

Topic Map Concepts and Applications: A Manager's Overview
Anthony Villa, Founder and President, NewBook Production Inc., Canada

12.30-14.00 Buffet Lunch in Exhibits

Applying Topic Maps to the Classification of Health Interventions
Derek A. Millar, Director, Professional Services, NewBook Production Inc., Canada
This paper describes how a health information application in Canada, the classification of health-related interventions, can benefit from the application of Topic Maps, an international standard for codifiying subjects and the relationships between them.

Handheld Technology and XML
Mansel Chamberlain, Business Systems Manager, Royal Brompton Hospital, United Kingdom
This presentation discusses a pilot study to support the use of handheld devices to record and access electronic patient records.

Using XML to Bridge the GP Hospital Divide
Simon N. Pearson, Path.Finder Project Manager, Independent Consultant, United Kingdom
Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust, a 1200-bed general hospital with 90 wards, created the Path.Finder healthcare information system in 1994 to share research and clinical guidelines among healthcare professionals both within the Trust and the wider healthcare community. Almost two years ago the Trust replaced the first version of Path.Finder, which ran on proprietry hypertext technology, with a solution based around XML, and has since been developing the application to deliver a range of different utilities to both Primary and secondary care environments. Data formatted using XML is delivered through a browser inteface, this has enabled the Trust to roll Path.Finder out to a much wider audience. In addition XML allows the Trust to incorporate a greater range of media types and link Path.Finder guidelines to web-based information provided by other healthcare organisations. Working with the Software company Graphnet, the Trust has been able to create a publishing tool which allows staff to create and maintain XML documents, in addition to connecting to legacy systems within the Trust.

15.35-16.00 Break in Exhibits

1.25 Million Electronic Patient Records in XML at Poole
Andy Hadley, IT Strategy Manager & Cheryl Hutchings, IT Projects Manager, Poole Hospital NHS Trust, United Kingdom
Poole hospital have implemented an electronic patient record using an XML repository, which now stands at 12 million XML documents. This was intended as and has proved an exploration as much of investigating and changing historic practice as an IT project. Andy will share their experience with delegates.

XML and Pathology
Steve Pynegar, Pathology Business Manager, Clinical Chemistry Department, Doncaster Royal Infirmary, United Kingdom
Doncaster Royal Infirmary has been involved in many IT initiatives and implementations. The XML Pathology Requesting project is the Trusts' first step towards incrementally building an XML based EPR. Bio: Worked as a Biomedical Scientist for 23 years at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, attaining all the necessary professional qualifications. In 1992 became the Pathology Business Manager and in 1995 managed the procurement and installation of a new pathology computer system. Keenly interested in the use of application software within a hospital environment and the development of user interfaces, which encourage the use of information technology. In 2000 successfully completed a Masters Degree dissertation on the implementation of the NHS IT strategy in a district general hospital and currently project manager for the introduction of an order communications system at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, using Graphnet who are XML software providers.

Update on the XML Project at Oswestry
Andy Bratt, Head of IT, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt, Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust, United Kingdom
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust in Oswestry, is a specialist Trust which deals with a wide variety of musculo-skeletal disorders. Services include a sports injury clinic and an Orthotic Research and Locomotor Assessment Unit. In 1998/99, the Trust treated 8,500 inpatients and saw 40,000 outpatients. The hospital mainly serves the west of Shropshire, but for its tertiary services, it treats patients from all over Britain, Europe and North America. Increasing demands for clinical governance and audit, led the Trust to look for a new IT and communication system. They wanted a patient-centred Electronic Health Record, that could access the disparate systems throughout the Trust, giving clinicians the information they needed at the point of care. Working in partnership with Graphnet and Microsoft, the Trust has implemented an XML-based EPR system, that enables staff to use and interrogate the vast amount of text-based information in the hospital. This has resulted in a more efficient service for patients, delivered by better-informed staff. The Trust now has over 300,000 clinical records in XML - the largest repository of XML clinical records in the world.

17.30-19.00 Reception in Exhibits