Tuesday, November 16
Opening Keynote: XML and its Emerging Uses Within the Enterprise
Track: Keynote Presentation
Audience Level: High Level View
Rod Smith's keynote will cover how XML is a cornerstone for new types of web applications, based on work done by the Emerging Internet Technology team at IBM.
Presenter(s): Rod Smith, IBM Fellow/VP, Emerging Technologies, IBM, United States
Creating Relevance and Reuse With Targeted Semantics
Track: Keynote Presentation
Audience Level: High Level View
Using the Smart Data metaphor he coined in the book, The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services and Knowledge Management, Mr. Daconta will guide government CIOs, Managers and Project leads beyond XML to higher degrees of data fidelity. Known for his concrete, real-world examples and insightful analogies, Mr. Daconta will demonstrate how adding targeted semantic models and services to your enterprise architecture deliver greater relevance to your users, concrete relationships between information entities, and broader reuse of your information assets.
Presenter(s): Michael Daconta, Metadata Program Manager, Department
of Homeland Security, United States
XML Overview - Part I
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
This presentation is designed to be a gentle
introduction into XML. It provides basic
terminology and where XML fits in the world
of IT.
Presenter(s): Betty Harvey, President,
Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc., United States
XML and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Track: Web Services
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
The realization of SOA through Web services is intrinsically driven by core XML technologies. The emergence of service-oriented design principles, however, is affecting how XML technologies are utilized and positioned within contemporary solutions.
Presenter(s): Thomas Erl, Chief Architect & President, XMLTC Consulting Inc., Canada
How the US Federal Government is Using XML: One Year Later
Track: Government
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
XML is integral to US Federal Enterprise Architecture, according to OMB and the E-Government Act. This presentation includes three case studies of significant XML initiatives by the Internal Revenue Service, Global Justice, and the General Services Administration. Sources of XML guidance at both the federal and international level are highlighted.
Presenter(s): Kenneth Sall, XML Specialist, SiloSmashers, United States
Coping with Babel - how to localize XML
Track: Integration
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
This session describes the do's and dont's of XML document translation as well as explaining the role that the various translation industry XML based standards can play in reducing the cost of translating your XML documents.
Presenter(s): Andrzej Zydroń, Senior Consultant, XML Intl, United Kingdom
Up-Conversion using XSLT 2.0
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: Technical View
This talk demonstrates how several of the new features of XSLT 2.0 make the language suitable for converting legacy data formats into XML markup. It shows the new regular expression and grouping capabilities and schema-aware processing in action.
Presenter(s): Michael Kay, Technical Director, Saxonica Limited, United Kingdom
xlinkit Rule Workbench - Validation for the Business
Track: Product Presentations
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
This session demonstrates the xlinkit Rule Workbench, Systemwire's flagship product for semantic validation of XML documents against business rules. Users interested in data quality, and rich validation beyond XML Schema should attend.
Presenter(s): Christian Nentwich,
Technical Director,
Systemwire Ltd.,United Kingdom
XML Overview - Part II
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
(Continued from 11:00am session) This presentation is designed to be a gentle introduction into XML. It provides basic
terminology and where XML fits in the world of IT.
Presenter(s): Betty Harvey, President, Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc., United States
Lessons From the Front Line - Building Interoperable Web Services
Track: Web Services
Audience Level: Technical View
This sesssion will discuss how hurdles can be overcome by choosing and adopting strategies which necessitate the use of standards-based technologies and application infrastructures to enable Web Services interoperability.
Presenter(s): Ramesh Nagappan, Staff Engineer/Java Architect and Sameer Tyagi, Sr Java Architect, Sun Microsystems, United States
The Federal CIO Council's Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP)
Track: Government
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
The Semantic (Web Services) Interoperability Community of Practice of the Federal CIO Council's Best Practices Committee has been established to help CoP members in their efforts to make the Semantic Web operational in their agencies and organizations.
Presenter(s): Brand Niemann, Computer Scientist, US EPA, United States
Character Matters
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: Technical View
Documents are made of characters, XML documents are made of Unicode characters. Unicode provides usually more than we can process, but sometimes not what we need. How to restrict and to extend the set of used characters in XML?
Presenter(s): Diederik Gerth van Wijk, Content Architect, Kluwer, Netherlands
Transforming Military Command and Control Information Exchange
Track: Case Studies
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
The DoD has employed text-based messaging to support command and control for over 30 years. A modernization effort to express these exchanges in XML is presented, with emphasis on lessons learned in providing a migration path to an XML based approach.
Presenter(s): Michael Cokus, Senior Software Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, United States
Adobe LiveCycle - using XML and SOA to link people with systems
Track: Product Presentations
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
An overview of how Adobe has embraced service oriented architecture and XML within its' LiveCycle(tm) brand of server products. LiveCycle solves real world business problems.
Presenter(s): Duane Nickull,
Senior Standards Strategist,
Adobe Systems, Inc., Canada
Writing Your Last DTD
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
Many a consultant embarking on development of a new DTD will ask themselves the question "is this the last DTD I'm every going to develop; will it be Schemas from here on in?". This presentation is about coping with that question.
Presenter(s): Alex Brown, Technical Director, Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd., United Kingdom
Securing XML - Case Studies from the Financial Services Industry
Track: Web Services
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
XML is becoming the de facto business document interchange language for the Internet. Drawing on practical experience in Vordel’s XML security projects, this presentation describes how security is being applied to financial XML transactions.
Presenter(s): Mark O'Neill, CTO, Vordel, Ireland
Anatomy of a Native XML Database
Track: Storing XML
Audience Level: Technical View
This talk covers core issues in a native XML database -- storage formats, indexing, query/access methods, input/output mechanisms, and language/API issues. Particular attention is paid to effects of XML specifications and application architecture.
Presenter(s): George Feinberg, Software Engineer, Sleepycat Software, United States
Building a document delivery system from off-the-shelf standards-conformant parts
Track: Publishing
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
How to build a system that can deliver XML documents
with multiple stylesheets, for end users, technical use, and quality assurance, using Cocoon, XSLT,
and CSS.
Presenter(s): C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Technical Staff, World Wide Web Consortium, United States
Decentralizing Software Project Registries with DOAP
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience Level: Technical View
DOAP (Description of a Project) is a
free, open XML/RDF format for describing a software project's resources, decentralizing and providing interoperability between registries. We discuss DOAP's development, design considerations, tools and adoption.
Presenter(s): Edd Dumbill,
Editor at Large,
O'Reilly Network, United Kingdom
Quick.SVG 2005 - Converting CGM to SVG
Track: Product Presentations
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
An overview of DocSoft Inc's Quick.SVG 2005 software for converting CGM files into SVG.
Presenter(s): Stefan K Gordon,
Lead Developer,
DocSoft Inc., United States
Documents vs. Data, Schemas vs. Schemas
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
All XML is both data and documents, so the common distinction between data-oriented and document-oriented XML, while important, is badly named. We'll discuss alternative terms and the implications of this distinction on how we choose schema languages.
Presenter(s): Bob DuCharme, Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis, United States
Web Services to Support Sarbanes Oxley Iniatives
Track: Web Services
Audience Level: High Level View
It is the contention of this presentation that Sarbanes Oxely's reporting and independance requirements have caused a need for automation, standardization and communication of an area that has previously not been automated.
Presenter(s): Nigel King, Senior Director of Development, Oracle, United States
Building an XPath-powered Framework for XML data processing
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
Presents the design of an XPath-powered framework supporting registration of XPaths/processes. These XPaths are compiled with a plug-in analysis engine and satisfied through stream-based document parsing for optimal scalability and performance.
Presenter(s): Mark Scardina, Group Product Manager & XML Evangelist, Oracle, United States
Using XSLT for getting back-of-the-book indexes
Track: Publishing
Audience Level: Technical View
This session will show you how support for internationalized back-of-the-book indexes was implemented in the DocBook XSL Stylesheets. Task wasn't easy as both XSLT 1.0 and XSL-FO 1.0 are missing several essential features.
Presenter(s): Jirka Kosek, University teacher, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
An approach to visually creating and editing nested compound document
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience Level: Technical View
In this presentation we will discuss an approach to visually creating, editing and synchronizing, nested compound XML vocabularies within one document.
Presenter(s): Nobuaki Wake,
Software Architect & Junpei Aoki,
Software Engineer, Justsystem Corporation, Japan
Text extraction from graphical objects during XML conversion
Track: Product Presentations
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
Material with ornamentation and complex design features is challenging to convert to XML, even by hand. This session shows how Exegenix’s automated conversion solutions can quickly and easily separate and extract text layers from graphical objects.
Presenter(s): Ryan Germann,
Product Manager,
Exegenix, Canada
Document Model Selection: Off-the-Shelf, Altered-to-Fit, or Bespoke?
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: High Level View
Document Model selection is a key success factor in XML. Approaches include: adopting an existing model, Modifying a model to meet your needs. and creating one to meet your needs. Advantages and disadvantages of each are discussed.
Presenter(s): B. Tommie Usdin, President, Mulberry Technologies, Inc., United States
Enhanced Interoperability for Security of XML Web Services
Track: Web Services
Audience Level: Technical View
This paper describes the work of the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization's Basic Security Profile (BSP) Working Group. This Working Group is developing an interoperability profile for Securing Web Services.
Presenter(s): Michael McIntosh, Senior Software Engineer, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, United States
Using a Java Query Analyzer to Translate Generic Query to SQL, XPath and XQuery
Track: Integration
Audience Level: Technical View
Discussion of Java Query Analyzer(JQA), a utility and API to transform generic query input into valid SQL, XPath, or XQuery statements. Discussion will include functionality and configuration options for JQA and demonstration of sample applications.
Presenter(s): Dazhi Jiao, System Analyst and Programmer, Indiana University, United States
DITA Case Study at CEDROM-SNi: using XML for technical documentation
Track: Case Studies
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
This presentation describes how DITA-based documentation was implemented at CEDROM-SNi, Canada's leading on-line news content aggregator. The presenter will focus on why CEDROM-Sni selected the DITA platform, the benefits, how tos, and lessons learned.
Presenter(s): France Baril, Documentation Architect, CEDROM-SNi, Canada
OASIS eBusiness Service Oriented Architecture
Track: Business-to-Business
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
The OASIS eBusiness SOA TC has started work on an eBusiness Specific Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), accounting for many ebXML and Web Services standards. The work encompasses standards in both stacks and reconciles them for electronic business.
Presenter(s): Duane Nickull, Senior Standards Strategist, Adobe Systems, Inc., Canada
Enterprise XML in Government Regulatory and Legislative Agencies
Track: Product Presentations
Audience Level: Technical View
This demonstration presents an Enterprise XML Document Management System showing how to create, manage, amend and deliver. This system utilizes: Xcential, XMetaL, Oracle XML DB and RenderX.
Presenter(s): Grant Vergottini,
Principal,
Xcential Group, LLC, United States
Case Study of Simple Worldwide Aggregation Using XSLT
Track: Case Studies
Audience Level: Technical View
This presents a behind-the-scenes case study of simple XML publishing and XSLT aggregation with working stylesheet examples for attendees to download, modify and implement in their own environments.
Presenter(s): Ken Holman, CTO, Crane Softwrights Ltd., Canada
Web Services Security: Access Control
Track: Web Services
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
This talk will cover the technologies available for controlling access to web services. Particular attention will be paid to the XACML language.
Presenter(s): John Merrells, Engineer, Parthenon Computing Ltd., United Kingdom
Extending XQuery with grouping, duplicate elimination and outerjoins
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: Technical View
Extending the standard XML query language, XQuery.
Presenter(s): Vinayak Borkar, Software Engineer, BEA Systems, Inc., United States
Integrating MathML into a Publishing Workflow
Track: Publishing
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
One of the chief characteristics of technical content is the presence of mathematics. Once you've decided to move to XML, presenting the math with MathML is the only real option. This session will show how easy it is to integrate MathML into your publishing workflow.
Presenter(s): Bob Mathews, Director of Training, Design Science, Inc., United States
RDF Metadata in XHTML
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience Level: High Level View
Review of the proposed XHTML 2.0 Metamodel and work to incorporate RDF metadata in the format. Current work of the W3C HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices & Deployment Working Group will be coverd.
Presenter(s): David Wood,
CTO,
Tucana Technologies, Inc., United States
Critique: Collaborative Reviewing of XML Documents
Track: Product Presentations
Audience Level: High Level View
Blast Radius is well-known in the XML community because of its acquisition of the XMetaL product suite. This session will unveil another side of Blast: XML 2004 is the North American debut of a uniquely collaborative reviewing application called Critique.
Presenter(s): Paul Prescod,
Group Program Manager,
Blast Radius Products, Canada
Efficient XML Encoding
Track: Townhall
Audience Level: Technical View
An open discussion about the need for an efficient XML encoding to expand the XML community to systems where efficiency is critical or bandwidth is limited.
Presenter(s): Rich Rollman, Vice President - Engineering and Product Development, and John Schneider, Chief Technology Officer, AgileDelta, Inc., United States
XML, Queries, and Databases
Track: Townhall
Audience Level: Technical View
This Town Hall meeting will invite industry experts to discuss XQuery, SQL 2003, programming APIs for XML query languages, and databases.
Presenter(s): Jonathan Robie, XML Program Manager, DataDirect Technologies, United States
The TAO of Topic Maps: Seamless Knowledge in Practice
Track: Townhall
Audience Level: High Level View
The now classic introduction to Topic Maps, which explains what topic maps are and how they work.
Presenter(s): Steve Pepper, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Ontopia, Norway