Opening Keynote: Plugging into the Pervasive XML Infrastructure
Track: Keynote
Audience: High Level View
Dave Campbell will speak about the logical steps in XML infrastructure; where
we are, and where we're heading.
Presenter(s): Soumitra
Sengupta, Product Unit Manager, WebData XML Team, Microsoft Corporation,
USA
Opening Keynote: The future of XML Information Management
Track: Keynote
Audience: High Level View
This presentation will discuss how XML is changing the definition of 'Information
Management' and the challenges associated with this change. XML provides endless
opportunities when it comes to solving complex data issues companies face today
from data integration to implementation of Service Oriented Architectures(SOA).
Companies that choose to exploit the advantages of XML will undoubtly gain an
edge over their competitors but will also be required to solve the challenges
around how to best manage and service XML data without compromising data security
and integrity.
Presenter(s): Robert
Picciano, Vice President of Data Management, IBM Corporation, USA
Your schema and the industry-standard schema
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level View
You want to use an industry standard schema, but you need to adopt it for your
company's particular needs. Schema adaptation has its opportunities and its
pitfalls; knowing your options and planning ahead can help you navigate them
successfully.
Presenter(s): Bob
DuCharme, Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis, USA
XML in Mathematical Web Services
Track: End-User Applications
Audience: Technical View
We describe how two XML-based data formats are used in a mathematical service
toolkit based on the Maple computer algebra system.
Presenter(s): Stephen
Watt, Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Native XML databases in the real world
Track: Storing XML
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Based on a broad survey of native XML database companies, this presentation
describes how native XML databases are being used in the real world, including
descriptions of why native XML databases succeeded and relational and other
technologies failed.
Presenter(s): Ronald
Bourret, Researcher, rpbourret.com, USA
System Architecture for XML Offload to a Cell Processor-Based
Workstation
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: Technical View
The presentation describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system
architecture for XML offload to a Cell processor-based workstation. This architecture
includes a high-performance parser based on a novel enhanced finite state technology.
Presenter(s): Stefan
Letz, Software Developer, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, Germany
XML Masters Series: Document Publishing
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
See XML Masters Series
page.
Presenter(s): Jeff
Shick, American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, USA
The power of native XML applications
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level View
In the Internet era, we've experienced dramatic innovations in application architecture
from fat, standalone application to thin, Web application. XML has been one
of the key components in Web application, as a core data interchange abstraction
in middle tier. Justsystems and IBM envision the future computing architecture
by extrapolating the role of XML to both directions: native XML application
and native XML store. The session covers:
Presenter(s): Hideki Hiura, COO, Chief Scientist, Justsystems Inc,, Japan & Rav Ahuji, Strategy Manager, IBM
On Language Creation
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Many custom languages for applications have been created, but have failed to
achieve their goals. This paper explores some of the reasons why.
Presenter(s): Tim
Bray, Director of Web Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Canada
Computing for the Mathematical Sciences with XML, Web Services,
and P2P
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: Technical View
This talk details the use of XML, Web Services, and P2P technologies to build
a computational grid for the Mathematical Sciences and discuss the challenges
of developing vocabularies for messaging and orchestration.
Presenter(s): Alex
Milowski, Lecturer, Center for Document Engineering, UC Berkeley, USA
XQuery By Example: Making O'Reilly Books Sing and Dance
Track: Storing XML
Audience: High Level/Technical View
In this session I'll take some O'Reilly book content (encoded in Docbook XML)
and show various ways that the content can be repurposed and made to sing and
dance online using XQuery.
Presenter(s): Jason
Hunter, Lead Applications Engineer, Mark Logic Corporation, USA
Native XML Scripting with ECMAScript for XML (E4X)
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Reading, writing and maintaining XML code can be tedious, time consuming, and
error prone. Learn how E4X simplifies application development by using familiar
intuitive programming constructs and operators to read, write, and manipulate
XML data.
Presenter(s): Rich
Rollman, Vice President - Engineering and Product Development, AgileDelta,
Inc., USA & John
Schneider, Chief Technology Officer, AgileDelta, Inc., USA
XML Masters Series: Document Publishing (Continued from
11:00am)
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
See XML Masters Series
page.
Presenter(s): Jeff Shick, American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, USA
Introduction to the NEW Native XML Support in DB2
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Overview of the NEW IBM DB2 Native XML Support.
Presenter(s): Michael
De Santis, DB2 Native XML Senior Program Manager, IBM Corporation, USA
How schema-validation is different from being married
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
A description of why schema-validity is not a black and white question, and
how to exploit the shades of gray.
Presenter(s): C.
M. Sperberg-McQueen, Technical Staff, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), USA
Securing XML - case studies from the Financial Services
Industry
Track: Case Studies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
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
XML Programming Refactored (The Return Of The Monoids)
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: Technical View
We propose to refactor special-purpose XML centric languages into their essential
constituents. Instead of creating specialized languages for querying XML, general
purpose languages should be extended with query capabilities based on monoids,
allowing pprogrammers to query any form of data, using a broad notion of "collection".
Instead of the DOM, we need to create a lightweight, rational, and simple API
for manipulating XML that is designed specifically to play well with this general
query infrastructure. In particular this implies that the API needs to support
creation of XML that is node centric as opposed to document centric, and expression-oriented
as opposed to the imperative statement-oriented style of the DOM.
Presenter(s): Erik
Meijer, Architect, Microsoft WebData XML, USA
XML Initiatives in Pharma
Track: Vertical Industries
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The pharmaceutical industry is rapidly adopting XML-based standards for several of their key information processing functions. In the US Drug Product Labels are now required to be submitted to the FDA for review in an XML format called Structured Product Label (SPL) language. Similarly, in the EU an emerging standard, Product Information Management (PIM) will address largely the same thing but in a very different way. These two approaches are described and compared as well as the underlying drivers and concepts behind them.
Presenter(s): Dale
Waldt, Senior Consultant, aXtive minds, USA
XSL Transform Self-Documentation
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The project defined an XML format for documenting XSL stylesheets used in data
conversion at PubMed Central. The authors also created an XSLT-based system
to present the documentation in HTML.
Presenter(s): Sandy
Tao, NLM Associate Fellow, National Library of Medicine, USA &
Jeff Beck,
Technical Information Specialist, National Center for Biotechnology Information,
NLM, USA
XML Authoring for Those Who Don't Like Markup
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The presentation highlights the benefits of standardizing on XML by enabling
the integration of tools for authoring, management and delivery of content.
This opens up new opportunities for greater productivity, automation and improved
business processes.
Presenter(s): Jon
Parsons, Director Product Marketing, XyEnterprise, USA
New XML Validation Technologies in Action
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: Technical View
This presentation is drawn from a number of real-world XML validation projects,
and compares and contrasts the experience 'in the trenches' with the current
state of the art in XML validation standards, as discussed in XML working groups.
Presenter(s): Alex
Brown, Technical Director, Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd., UK
ACORD Security Profiles: Securing Insurance Web Services
Universal Lessons Learned
Track: Vertical Industries
Audience: Technical View
ACORD is a prominent standards organization for the insurance industry. Its
technology standards are widely implemented by insurance IT organizations. Session
discusses Web services security techniques as standardized recently by ACORD
JAG-Framework WG.
Presenter(s): Rima
Patel, Technology Evangelist, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA
Phantom XML
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: Technical View
This presentation shows how various kind of data can be virtually represented
as XML and how efficient querying over this data can be achieved.
Presenter(s): Dr.
Lionel Villard, Advisory Research Engineer, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research
Center & Kristoffer
Rose, Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Drafting Legislation in XML
Track: Case Studies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This case study will demonstrate a radically new approach to collaborative authoring
of structured documents that has been deployed in the Parliament of Ireland
and is being implemented other legislatures including the Pennsylvania General
Assembly.
Presenter(s): Lisa
Richards, Senion Engagement Manager, Propylon, USA & Clyde
Hatter, VP, Legislative and Regulatory Solutions, Propylon, Ireland
Semantic Web Calendaring: RDF Calendar, hCalendar, and
GRDDL
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: Technical View
The RDF Calendar vocabulary is the result of a test-driven vocabulary development
effort. hCalendar is an emerging microformat standard. See how they fit together
with XSLT and GRDDL.
Presenter(s): Dan
Connolly, Technical Staff, W3C/MIT, USA
Syntext Serna and New Trends in XML Content Authoring
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
We will introduce Syntext Serna and show how it can cope with modern trends
and requirements for XML content authoring, such as multi-source compound documents
and topic-oriented architectures like DITA, utilizing Serna XSL-on-the-fly capability.
Presenter(s): Paul
Antonov, CEO, Syntext, Inc., USA
Analysis of XML schema usage
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
We introduce essential concepts of XML schema analysis and apply them to the important problem of understanding XML schema usage in practice.
Presenter(s): Ralf
Lammel, Program Manager, Microsoft, USA & Dave
Remy, Program Manager, Microsoft, Webdata/XML, USA
Web Service Compositions – From XML Syntax to Service
Models
Track: Metadata and Semantics
Audience: Technical View
This session presents a rigorous approach to modelling, verifying and validating
the behaviour of web service compositions (BPEL4WS) with the goal of simplifying
the task of designing coordinated distributed services and their interaction
requirements.
Presenter(s): Howard
Foster, Research, Imperial College London, UK
SQL, XQuery, and SPARQL: What's wrong with this picture?
Track: Storing XML
Audience: Technical View
Does the world really need Yet Another Query Language? A new language for querying
RDF, named SPARQL, is emerging from the W3C. Some observers say that the W3C's
own XQuery is sufficient for querying RDF, at least in its XML incarnations,
while others suggest that SQL is a more mature, widely-implemented language
for querying tuples. This presentation explores these issues and positions the
three languages.
Presenter(s): Jim
Melton, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corp., USA
Large-scale validation of millions of UBL Invoices with
XML Schema and Schematro
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Real life problems, experiences and solutions with syntactical and semantical
validation of millions of electronic invoices. Theoretical considerations on
the localization of international vocabularies.
Presenter(s): Mikkel
Brun, Chief consultant, Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark;
Brian BNI
Nielsen, Enterprise Architect, Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark
& Christian
Lanng, e-business analyst, Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
, Denmark
XML, REST, and SOAP at Yahoo
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This session will discuss the uses of XML at Yahoo Search Marketing, including
REST and SOAP based APIs, and the challenges of large scale, high performance
systems.
Presenter(s): Parand
Darugar, Director of Architecture, Yahoo Search Marketing, Yahoo Inc., USA
XML Authoring Panel
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This session will feature a panel of XML Authoring Vendors and XML experts.
The XML Authoring Vendors will demonstrate traditional XML authoring tools and
environments. Alternative methods for authoring XML content will also be demonstrated.
Discussions about XML environments and appropropriate authoring methodologies
will be be discussed.
Presenter(s): Betty
Harvey, President, Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc., USA
Panelists/Experts:
Paul G. Antonov,
CEO, Syntext, Inc., USA
Lisa Gillispie,
Senior Applications Engineer, PTC - Arbortext, USA
Ted Henry,
Sales/Marketing Engineer, Altova, Inc., USA
Kevin Kelly,
Senior Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA
Jerry S. Silver,
Director, Product Management, Blast Radius Inc., Canada
Dale Waldt,
Senior Consultant, aXtive minds, USA
Creating and Maintaining Large Families of Related Schemas
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: High Level/Technical View
How do you create and manage large families of XML schemata that share definitions
of simple types and/or complex structures? This presentation discusses the real-life
development of a set of a family of >450 inter-related W3C XML Schemas.
Presenter(s): Anthony
Coates, Chief Architect, London Market Systems, UK
Towards SOA and Enterprise Integration: Lessons from the
Police Service in UK
Track: Government
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This paper presents our approach and lessons learnt to date of setting up and
deploying the service oriented architecture for modernising and integrating
Police IT systems in the United Kingdom.
Presenter(s): Michael
Hu, Enterprise Architect; Enterprise Integration Manager, Police Information
Technology Organization, UK
Integrating Messaging and Databases to Implement Service
Architectures
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Implementing service architectures using an XML-capable DBMS with asynchronous
messaging capabilities can offer the secure, reliable, transactions of the web
services approach while presenting a minimal interface much as REST offers.
Presenter(s): Michael
Champion, Program Manager, Microsoft, USA
RosettaNet : Adoption Brings New Problems, New Solutions
Track: Vertical Industries
Audience: High Level/Technical View
RosettaNet specifies standardized, XML-based business documents, and their exchange
over the Internet. We will focus on XML-based technologies to address the new
challenges that arose during 4 years of deployment of RosettaNet based solutions.
Presenter(s): Suresh
Damodaran, Senior Software Architect, Sterling Commerce, USA
Opening Up: Sharing Data and Technology as a Growth Strategy
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level View
Amazon.com has thrown open the doors to its data and technology, and issued
a challenge to software developers -- surprise us. More than 120,000 software
developers are using Amazon Web Services to build their own businesses that
cater to Amazon's shopping customers or retailers who sell through Amazon.com.
Steve Rabuchin, who heads the Amazon Web Services developer relations group,
will talk about the reasons Amazon decided to open up its data and technology,
the challenges in doing so, and how the company is helping developers succeed
as innovators and entrepreneurs.
Presenter(s): Steve
Rabuchin, Developer Relations Director of Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com,
USA
XML Authoring Panel (continued from 4:00pm)
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This session will feature a panel of XML Authoring Vendors and XML experts.
The XML Authoring Vendors will demonstrate traditional XML authoring tools and
environments. Alternative methods for authoring XML content will also be demonstrated.
Discussions about XML environments and appropropriate authoring methodologies
will be be discussed.
Presenter(s): Betty
Harvey, President, Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc., USA
Panelists/Experts:
Paul G. Antonov,
CEO, Syntext, Inc., USA
Lisa Gillispie,
Senior Applications Engineer, PTC - Arbortext, USA
Ted Henry,
Sales/Marketing Engineer, Altova, Inc., USA
Kevin Kelly,
Senior Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA
Jerry S. Silver,
Director, Product Management, Blast Radius Inc., Canada
Dale Waldt,
Senior Consultant, aXtive minds, USA
Artificial Artificial Intelligence -- What it is and what it means for the
Web
Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), Amazon's human intelligence marketplace, provides
a web services API for computers to integrate "artificial, artificial intelligence"
directly into their processing. Hear Amazon.com's Steve Rabuchin describe the
inspiration for Mechanical Turk, what Amazon has seen since launching the technology,
and what Amazon expects for its future.
Presenter(s): Steve
Rabuchin, Developer Relations Director of Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com,
USA
OASIS SOA Adoption Blueprints
Track: Town Hall Meeting
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This presentation will address current implementations of the SOA Blueprints,
including complete implementations from BEA and Microsoft, built on the Weblogic
and .NET platforms respectively, as well as those currently under development
at Oracle and Sun.
Presenter(s): Miko
Matsumura, VP of Marketing, Infravio, USA
XML Document Formats
Track: Town Hall Meeting
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This town hall debates the merits of different current formats for XML documents
and how they can be leveraged to meet the requirements for enabling sustainable,
evolvable information and communication technologies.
Presenter(s): C.
Len Bullard, II, Senior Technical Consultant, Intergraph Corporation, USA