Industry/Academic Partnerships for XML
Tim Weitzel
This session describes successful partnership designs for bringing
together industrial and academic activities in order to create public
awareness for XML standardization.
Besides scientific and technological cooperation, neutral institutions
like universities can greatly contribute to propagating information and
to creating problem awareness among the most different audiences,
including SMEs as well as governmental institutions and enterprises or
industries not yet sufficiently involved.
In this session, we will try to encourage partnerships between academia
and enterprises to commonly research, develop and talk about their
experiences to as many people as possible. We offer some recommendations
based on very promising experiences with XML partnerships made at
Frankfurt University.
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Tim Weitzel
research assistant at the Institute of Information Systems
and head of XML Competence Center
Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Germany
Tim Weitzel - Tim Weitzel is research assistant at the Institute of Information
Systems and, since 1997, head of the XML Competence Center
(http://xml.cnec.org) at J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt. In a
research project funded by the German National Science Foundation (DFG),
he is responsible for developing a standardization framework on the
diffusion of IT standards, XML/EDI and SME integration.
At Frankfurt University, Tim is co-developer of an XML-based EDI
solution that has become the foundation of Seals GmbH (www.seals.com).
He conducts XML seminars for both students as well as industry partners
like Intershop, DG Bank and Software AG. Information about research and
teaching activities, publications etc. is available at
http://www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/~tweitzel/
