Wednesday, November 17
Models and Metadata: the Role of XML in Enterprise Development
Track: Keynote Presentation
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
Models are playing a new role in software development. New model driven development tools will change the way we build applications. Come and hear about changes ahead for the industry and about what Microsoft is doing with XML models and code.
Presenter(s): Jack Greenfield, Architect, Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft Corporation, United States
Automate Your Publishing
Track: Keynote Presentation
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
Organizations are struggling with the challenge of delivering accurate and timely product marketing material. This session will discuss the strategic importance of XML for organizations who need to automate their publishing processes in order to deliver customized information that is accurate and timely.
Presenter(s): David Haslam, Senior Architect, MOPAR Division, DaimlerChrysler, United States
Towards Seamless Knowledge - Integrating Public Sector Portals
Track: Case Studies
Audience Level: High Level View
Topic Maps have "taken off" as the foundation for a new generation of public sector portals in Norway. Over a dozen such portals currently exist and plans are afoot for linking them together to provide "seamless knowledge" to the end user.
Presenter(s): Steve Pepper, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Ontopia, Norway
Quality of Service in Web Services Oriented Business Process
Track: Government
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
We use case studies to demonstrate in the paper how the proposed algorithm is applicable in Web services & QoS composition in a national initiative involving the Police National Computer, the Scotland Yard and other police forces throughout the United Kingdom.
Presenter(s): Michael Hu, Lead Solutions Architect; Enterprise Architecture Manager, Police Information Technology Organization, United Kingdom
Querying XML – XQuery, SQL/XML, and SQL in context
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
Many see XQuery and SQL as competitive technologies, but they are actually complementary. This talk offers practical tips on selecting the right mix of XQuery, SQL/XML, SQL and XQJ. Examples are from Oracle’s early adopter program for XML and XQuery.
Presenter(s): Stephen Buxton, Director, Product Management, Oracle Corporation, United States
Using XML for Creative Content and Page Layout Applications
Track: Publishing
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
Through a detailed case study, and a live demonstration using real marketing content, shows how XML, XSL-FO and SVG can be used to maintain “creative” material such as sales and marketing collateral from a single source of XML information.
Presenter(s): Eric Severson, Chief Technology Officer, Flatirons Solutions, United States
How Much Pain for XML Gains? Assessing XML's Overhead
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
This presentation pulls together what is actually known about XML processing performance bottlenecks and tries to provide an evenhanded analysis of options that have been put forth to address them.
Presenter(s): Mike Champion, Senior Technologist, Software AG, United States
Automated Rich-Client Generation from XML Schemas
Track: Product Presentations
Audience Level: Technical View
Worldwide launch: XchainJ 3 is a new breed of software that automatically generates rich-client, forms-based applications from XML Schemas / DTDs. Must be seen to be believed! Q.A. involved producing a full-scale distributed solution for the U.N.
Presenter(s): Jeff Lawson,
Chief Software Architect,
Cogent Logic Corporation, Canada
Classifying Content Through XTM
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: Technical View
Using Topic Map technology to allow flexible and accurate classification of content.
Presenter(s): Steve Carton, Vice President, Content Technologies, Retrieval Systems Corporation, United States
E-Government Architecture in Ireland: The Service-Oriented Approach of the Public Services Broker
Track: Government
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
A case study on the Irish Public Services Broker, an e-government interoperability architecture based on a decentralized, asynchronous XML messaging hub. The business and technical benefits of this approach are discussed.
Presenter(s): Fergal Murray, VP North America, Propylon, United States
XQuery in Relational Database Systems
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
The presentation will outline how XQuery and XML fits into a relational database environment. It will present the concepts, talk about developments in the ISO/ANSI SQL/XML standards and present some demos of XQuery in SQL Server.
Presenter(s): Michael Rys, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, United States
Consistent Electronic Publishing from Inconsistent Sources
Track: Publishing
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
Lightweight, flexible content management and electronic publishing systems can be constructed from XML conversion components linked in a pipeline. Such architecture is advantageous in organizations with diverse content sources and formats.
Presenter(s): Ahmet Gurcan, Senior Developer; Yuri Khramov, Director of Development and Philip Mansfield, President, Schema Software Inc., Canada
Is Now the Time for Binary XML? Report on current W3C Activity
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
Update on the W3C activity on XML Binary Characterization, explaining the use cases for a new XML format, the possible properties supported by a binary XML format and the objectives of the W3C WG.
Presenter(s): Michael Leventhal,
Director, XML Products,
Tarari, Inc., United States
Visually Modelling Business Processes
Track: Product Presentations
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
Learn how to visually design process definitions including the use of context mechanisms and workflows, signals and joins. Sample multi-party applications will be provided from automotive, financial, homeland security and healthcare domains.
Presenter(s): David RR Webber,
XML eBusiness Professional,
OASIS CAM TC Chair, United States
Handling 1200 Goverment Forms in XML Schema
Track: Government
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
All Danish public authorities have established an enterprise portal with online access to 1200 governmental forms. Each form has been modelled in XML Schema producing more than 17,000 individual schema modules. Ensuring NDR compliance and optimal reuse has been a huge task.
Presenter(s): Mikkel Brun, Chief consultant and Brian Nielsen, Enterprise Architect, Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark
Adding Reliability to an Egg-and-Spoon Race
Track: Web Services
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
How is Web Services over an unreliable network like an egg-and-spoon relay race? How does adding reliability alter the dynamics of the race? These and other important questions (details of the reliability standardization underway) will be answered.
Presenter(s): Tony Graham, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Ireland
e-Voting and XML: a case study of UK government local election pilots
Track: Case Studies
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
XML is an enabler to e-voting applications. It ensures that these applications conform to a standard that has been laid down by an independent body. Enabling different voting applications to pool disparate information into one recognisable format
Presenter(s): Simon Bain, CTO, TENdotZERO, United Kingdom
Migrating SGML to XML: Lessons Learned
Track: Case Studies
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
Presentation covers the migration of our Navy technical manual publishing system from SGML to XML. Focus areas include data analysis of SGML to create a XML DTD, migration process and lessons learned.
Presenter(s): Robert Gaschen, Project Manager, AMSEC LLC, United States
How to version schemas
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
Version and source control for schemas and schema objects is badly needed by us all, especially in complex, multi-enterprise development situations. This paper describes how to support true versioning of schemas and fine-grained schema objects.
Presenter(s): Jim Gabriel, Managing Director CortexML, digitalML Ltd., United Kingdom
The Tucana Knowledge Server version 2.1
Track: Product Presentations
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
The Tucana Knowledge Server is a scalable and enterprise-ready semantic database management system for RDF and OWL data.
Presenter(s): David Wood,
CTO,
Tucana Technologies, Inc., United States
Multi-domain Dissemination Using W3C XML Schema and XML-Signature
Track: Government
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
The use of XML schemas and XML Signature to expedite the flow of intelligence info from top secret to unclassied networks in the war against terrorism.
Presenter(s): Clive Carpi, XML Project Manager and Enterprise Consultant, Science Applications International Corporation, United States
WSDL 2.0: what's new?
Track: Web Services
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
WSDL 2.0, the Web Services Description Language version 2.0, will include several new features and some restrictions, compared to its predecessor. This session will present the current status of the W3C Web Services Description Working Group.
Presenter(s): Hugo Haas, Web Services Activity Lead, W3C, France
XML Transformation and Metadata Repositories Enable Information Integration
Track: Integration
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
XML-based mapping and transformation technologies may take the place of EAI tools for some integration purposes. This session focuses on XML transformation and metadata management tools applied to information integration in the financial services sector.
Presenter(s): Stephen Gantz, Enterprise Architect, Blueprint Technologies, United States
Challenges and Rewards of Migrating an Electronic Publishing System to XML
Track: Case Studies
Audience Level: High Level View
LexisNexis has been an electronic publisher since 1973. An effort to migrate the storage, delivery and fabrication of our data to XML was started in 1999. This session looks at the business and technical challenges presented by migrating to XML.
Presenter(s): Ronald Callahan, Technical Lead - Senior Software Engineer, LexisNexis, div. of Reed Elsevier, PLC, United States
Development Life Cycle and Tools for XML Content Models
Track: Integration
Audience Level: Technical View
This presentation describe tools and approach developed in the NIST Testbeds to make the XML schema standard development more efficient.
Presenter(s): Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
Ontopia’s Vizigator(tm) – Now you see it!
Track: Product Presentations
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
An overview of the Ontopia Vizigator, a graphical browsing environment for topic maps and a sneak preview of knowledge interchange between topic maps.
Presenter(s): Pamela L. Gennusa,
Chief Executive Officer,
Ontopia, Norway
Release of Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) Standards Version 1.0
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
The SDMX initiative has released version 1.0 of its standard XML and EDI formats for aggregated statistical data. These standards are both a case study in model-driven design, and important for exchange of data among governmental and other organizations.
Presenter(s): Arofan Gregory,
Principal,
Aeon LLC, United States
Utilizing XML to Solve Real Time Content Management for the Publishing Industry through Traditional Methods and Emerging Standards
Track: Publishing
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
This session will explore how schema-free XML-based content management solutions can provide significant advantages over current approaches used by the publishing industry
Presenter(s): Benjamin Chen, Chairman and CTO, Snapbridge Software, United States
The New ebXML for SOA
Track: Business-to-Business
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
The ebXML specifications have matured rapidly over the past year. New components and capabilities have extended the architecture for service oriented architectures (SOA). Learn about this new comprehensive release of ebXML that is available from OASIS.
Presenter(s): David Webber, XML eBusiness Professional, OASIS CAM TC Chair, United States and Dan Pattyn, Executive Director, EPR Forum, United States
Using XSL-FO 1.1 for Business-Type Documents
Track: Publishing
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
Many people don't realize that XSL-FO is not just for book-type publishing, but also for business-type documents, forms etc... XSL-FO 1.1 brings even more things needed in this area such as end-of-page subtotals, multiple flows and other things.
Presenter(s): Klaas Bals, Technical Project Leader and Designer, Inventive Designers, Belgium
Designing XML Formats: Versioning vs. Extensibility
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: High Level View
Designers of XML formats have to face the problem of how to design their formats to be extensible and yet be resilient to changes due revisions of the format. This presentation covers various techniques and considerations for versioning XML formats.
Presenter(s): Dare Obasanjo, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, United States
Antenna House - Don't Underestimate What You Can Do with XSL-FO
Track: Product Presentations
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
XSL-FO is far more powerful than people tend to give it credit for. Through product presentations Antenna House will demonstrate just how powerful XSL-FO really is.
Presenter(s): Michael A. Miller,
Vice President, International Sales,
Antenna House, Inc., United States
Policy Content at SSA: Using XML and Semantic Metadata
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
The Social Security Administration aims to provide staff relevant, integrated information. New content systems have been designed, based on existing work with XML and Topic Maps. This case study shows the applications and discusses design considerations.
Presenter(s): Terry M. Hynes,
PolicyNet Program Manager,
Social Security Administration, United States & Duane Degler,
Design Consultant,
Lockheed Martin/IPGems, United States
The AtomAPI: Publishing Web Content with XML and HTTP
Track: Web Services
Audience Level: Technical View
The AtomAPI is an emerging interface for editing content. The interface is RESTful and uses XML and HTTP to define an editing scheme that's easy to implement and extend. History, basic operation, and applications to areas outside weblogs will be covered.
Presenter(s): Joe Gregorio, President, BitWorking, Inc, United States
Managing Medical Ontologies using OWL and an e-business Registry / Repository
Track: Storing XML
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
How the e-health knowledge embedded in Upper and Lower Ontologies are being developed, published and exploited for semantics-based web service discovery.
Presenter(s): Carl Mattocks, CEO, CHECKMi, United States
One Stop Document Creation
Track: Publishing
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
The presenter will examine the roles of XSLFO and SVG within publishing workflows, and how XML as a neutral format for creating Web, print, and wireless content can be formatted and presented as a PDF document.
Presenter(s): Charles Myers, Technology Strategist, Adobe Systems, Inc., United States
Achieving Distributed Extensibility and Versioning
Track: Core Technologies
Audience Level: Technical View
Almost every use of XML uses extensibility and versioning, whether planned for or not. This talk provides a walk through of various distributed extensibility mechanisms using application specific technology, XML Schema, and some RelaxNG and RDF/OWL.
Presenter(s): David Orchard, Technical Director, BEA Systems, Canada
How XML is Shrinking The World Through Globalization
Track: Product Presentations
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
TRADOS and Blast Radius will explain the role XML plays in an overview of globalization - an area that is fast becoming critical as technology shrinks the world around us and lowers barriers to international business. The joint product presentation will emphasize the benefits of XML and content/translation reuse, including the elimination of redundant work, brand consistency and superior customer satisfaction ultimately leading to a sustainable competitive advantage for organizations wanting to accelerate the delivery, decrease the cost, and improve the quality of content for global markets
Presenter(s): Bill Seawick,
Chief Marketing Officer,
TRADOS, Inc., United States & Paul Prescod, Group Program Manager, Blast Radius Products, Canada
Networking of U.S. Federal Government Communities of Practice Using XML
Track: Town Hall
Audience Level: High Level/Technical View
The U.S. Federal Government Communities of Practice using XML need to network to discover and appreciate one another and foster more collaboration. This Town Hall provides 6 major XML-based CoPs to summarize their activities and network with one another.
Presenter(s): Brand Niemann,
Computer Scientist,
United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States
DOM, SAX and Standards - Where Now?
Track: Town Hall
Audience Level: Technical View
A look at the current state of play of XML parsing, and the standards that relate to it.
Presenter(s): Gareth Reakes, Managing Director, Parthenon Computing Ltd., United Kingdom; Alberto Massari,
Software Developer,
Progress Software, Italy; Lucian Holland,
Technical Architect,
DecisionSoft Ltd., United Kingdom; Neil Graham,
Manager, XML Parser Development,
IBM Corporation, Canada