Tuesday, November 15
9:00 AM
Opening Keynote: From Atoms to OWLs the new ecology of the Semantic
Web
Track: Keynote
Audience: High Level View
Over the past couple of years, Semantic Web deployment has really started
rolling. Successes have included adoption of RDF by major corporations
and the development of new ontology-based technologies of use for many
enterprise and web applications. Despite this, controversy still seems
to abound with respect to both the relationship of the Semantic Web to
XML, and the use of these technologies. This talk will explain what the
Semantic Web is all about and, perhaps more importantly, attempt to dispel
two pervasive myths -- that XML and the Semantic Web are incompatible,
and that XML is able to do all that the Semantic Web promises without
reinventing the semantic extensions inherent in RDF and OWL.
Presenter(s): Jim
Hendler, Professor, University of Maryland, USA
9:45 AM
Opening Keynote: XML and Web Services: A Blueprint for Next Generation
Applications
Track: Keynote
Audience: High Level View
This presentation will discuss the challenges that organizations must
overcome in dealing with the complexity of modern application architectures
and show how XML and Web Services play a pivotal role in the modern application
blueprint.
Presenter(s): Steve
Harris, Vice president, Java Platform Group, Oracle Corporation, USA
11:00 AM
The PC's PI Guide to Deploying XML
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: High Level View
The XML 2005 Planning Committee will discuss many of the common deployment
scenarios for XML.
Presenter(s): Sharon
Adler, Senior Manager, IBM Research, USA; Michael
Champion, Program Manager, Microsoft, USA; Jim
Melton, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corp., USA;
Brand
Niemann, Computer Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
USA
A Close Look at the Compact XML Schema-Aware XML Processing
Framework
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
In this paper, we will provide an overview on the existing compact XML
technologies and discuss the project building compact schema-aware XML
processing framework.
Presenter(s): Jinyu
Wang, Sr. Product Manager, Oracle Corporation, USA
Implementing a Government-wide Semantic Solution to
Thesauri
Track: Government
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This presentation describes the development of a common RDF-based SKOS,
XSLT, and XSL-FO thesaurus solution applicable to any government agency
that leverages ISO standards to express concepts, extract associated terms,
and broader or narrower terms.
Presenter(s): Kenneth
Sall, XML Data and Systems Analyst, SAIC, USA & Ronald
P. Reck, Consultant RRecktek LLC, USA
Linking Outside the Box
Track: Publishing
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The DocBook community has implemented a powerful and versatile cross referencing
system that lets you wire together a collection of documents with maintainable
links. Olinks reach further than ID/IDREFs, and are easier to maintain
than URLs.
Presenter(s): Bob
Stayton, Principal Consultant, Sagehill Enterprises, USA
XML Masters Series: Web Services
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: Technical View
See XML Masters
Series page.
Presenter(s): Furrukh Khan, Professor, Ohio State University,
USA
Going From Disparate Data to BI
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Many enterprises revisit business data for operational insight. And while
data is generated and stored in different silos, ODBC, OLE DB, and XML
enable enterprises to leap from stratified content management to corporate
business intelligence.
Presenter(s): Phil
Storey, Senior Sales Engineer, Datawatch Corp., USA
11:45 AM
Real World XML - Higher Education Single Sourcing Course Catalogs
with XML
Track: End-User Applications
Audience: High Level/Technical View
CMS is revolutionizing the way higher education handle online content.
So why are most universities still managing their course catalogs by hand?
Join the author for an in-depth look at how XML can improve a university
beyond its website.
Presenter(s): David
Cummings, Chief Executive Officer & President, Founder, Hannon
Hill Corporation, USA
Performance in XML Application Data Structures
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: Technical View
An investigation of the performance impact of XML APIs, with a view to
imroving overall efficiency of the XML processing stack.
Presenter(s): Eric
Perkins, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Corporation, USA
The US Federal CIO Council's Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice
Track: Government
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) has made considerable progress towards implementations of semantic technologies and web standards in the U.S. government with a series of white papers, conferences, and pilot projects.
Presenter(s): Brand Niemann, Computer Scientist, US EPA, USA
Handling Math in Real-World Workflows: Practical
Lessons
Track: Publishing
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The use of XML in STM publishing is growing, but one of the unique challenges
is how to handle embedded mathematics. In this presentation, we will present
some practical lessons Design Science has garnered from working with early
adopters of MathML.
Presenter(s): Bob
Mathews, Director of Training, Design Science, Inc., USA
XML Masters Series: Web Services (Continued from
11:00am)
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: Technical View
See XML Masters
Series page.
Presenter(s): Furrukh Khan, Professor, Ohio State University,
USA
XML Marks the Spot: XML Helps Move Knowledge from
Books to Bytes
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The technological advantages relating to automatic book scanning have
had a clear impact on sharing information quickly and accurately. With
advanced search/data management with XML, there is increased accessibility
to information that is scanned.
Presenter(s): Lotfi
Belkhir, CEO, Kirtas Technologies Inc, USA
2:00 PM
Federated Identity Management: An Overview of Concepts and Standards
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This talk will explore how the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
and Liberty Alliance standards are being used to solve the problem of
secure, personalized, seamless transactions that remain privacy-sensitive.
Presenter(s): Eve
Maler, Technology Director, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA
Modeling Methods and Artifacts for Crossing the Data/Document
Divide
Track: Metadata and Semantics
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This paper synthesizes the complementary ideas from document analysis
and data modeling, emphasizing what they have in common with analysis
and modeling methods, tools, and artifacts that span the data/document
divide in XML vocabularies.
Presenter(s): Robert
Glushko, Adjunct Professor, School of Information Management and Systems,
USA
Developing vocabularies with multiple distributed
teams
Track: Collaboration
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Collaborative development and evolution of XML vocabularies across multiple
development teams is technically very difficult to manage. This paper
describes a methodology and supporting technology to support collaboration
across multiple teams.
Presenter(s): Adrian
Pasciuta, Technical Director, DigitalML Ltd., UK
PubMed Central: An XML-based archive of life sciences
literature at the NLM
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This paper details challenges faced building the NIH's archive of journal
literature, PubMed Central.
Presenter(s): Jeff
Beck, Technical Information Specialist, National Center for Biotechnology
Information, USA
XJ: Integrating XML and Java
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
XJ (XML Enhancements for Java) is a research language that extends Java
with first-class support for Java. We will show how XJ supports more robust
and efficient development of XML-based applications.
Presenter(s): Mukund
Raghavachari, Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
USA
TigerLogic XML Data Management Server - The Power
Behind An SOA
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
This talk will present TigerLogic, a pioneering native XML data management
server as the most logical approach for storing SOA data, as this data
is basically XML.
Presenter(s): Ash
Parikh, Director of Development and Technology, Raining Data Corporation,
USA & Premal
Parikh, Lead Architect/Team Lead, Enterprise Applications Group, Raining
Data Corporation, USA
2:45 PM
Liberty Federation Deployment Case Study
Track: Case Studies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Presentation covers Sun's first deployment of Liberty which created a
single signon circle of trust between Sun and an external application
service provider. Presentation will cover project goals, technical architecture,
and lessons learned.
Presenter(s): Yvonne
Wilson, Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA
Best Practices for XML Schema Evolution in Application
Development
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: Technical View
Want to modify your XML Schema without breaking your existing code base?
This session describes the practical approaches to enterprise application
design that allow your XML Schema to evolve over time and presents examples
from J2EE applications.
Presenter(s): Adam
FitzGerald, Principal Technologist, BEA Systems, USA
Lost in the Semantics: Presenting Semantic Markup
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Semantic markup is making the web more machine-readable; but potentially
it places much more machine-interpretation between content authors and
their audiences. This paper looks at the trust issues involved and the
shape of some potential solutions.
Presenter(s): Lucian
Holland, Technical Architect, DecisionSoft Ltd, UK
Models and Messages: Insights from the HL7/OMG Services
Specification Project
Track: Deploying XML
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The Services Specification Project is a joint venture in healthcare standards
between HL7 and OMG. This paper brings out a number of issues regarding
the foundations of interoperability, in the interplay of models and syntax.
Presenter(s): Ann
Wrightson, Principal Consultant, CSW Group Ltd, UK
Microsoft's Language Integrated Query and XML
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
We present the newly announced Language Integrated Query (LINQ) features
of a future .NET, and demonstrate its XML support in C# and Visual Basic.
Presenter(s): Soumitra
Sengupta, Product Unit Manager; Michael
Champion, Program Manager & Erik
Meijer, Architect, Microsoft WebData XML - Microsoft Corporation,
USA
Bulletproofing Web Services
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: Technical View
This presentation will illustrate the solid engineering and testing practices
required to ensure complete Web service functionality, interoperability,
and security.
Presenter(s): Wayne
Ariola, Vice President of Corporate Development, Parasoft Corporation,
USA
4:00 PM
The session concept for Web Services
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: Technical View
WS-Addressing and WS-Context propose different models for session-oriented
Web Services. The important difference of these approaches is the degree
of coupling between session participants. In this presentation we shall
compare and contrast the models.
Presenter(s): Greg
Pavlik, Consultant Member of Technical Staff, Oracle, USA
Names, Namespaces, XML Languages and XML Definition
Languages
Track: Core Technologies
Audience: High Level/Technical View
We need names for and descriptions of (multiple versions of) XML languages,
their constituents and relationships. This paper distinguishes between
XML languages and XML definition languages, and explores ways to name
the things definition languages define.
Presenter(s): Henry
Thompson, Reader, University of Edinburgh, UK
Benefits of Avoiding Runtime/Build-Time Distinctions
for Metadata Vocabularies
Track: Metadata and Semantics
Audience: Technical View
Flexible use of schemas and modular metadata can leverage common tools
and facilitate interoperability that are not apparent when focusing on
runtime vs. build-time distinctions
Presenter(s): Kenneth
Laskey, Lead Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, USA
The Atom Publishing Protocol: Publishing Web Content
with XML and HTTP
Track: Collaboration
Audience: Technical View
The Atom Publishing Protocol is an emerging interface for editing content.
The interface is RESTful and uses XML and HTTP to define a protocol that's
easy to implement and extend. History, basic operation, and applications
outside weblogs will be covered.
Presenter(s): Joe
Gregorio, President, BitWorking, Inc, USA
Syntax, Semantics & Standards: Model for a National
Health Information Network
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level View
Report on the governance, architecture and deployment of a National Health
Information Network. Presentation focuses on common semantic models and
their relationship to XML and Java, supporting rapid development, flexibility
and interoperability.
Presenter(s): Liora
Alschuler, Consultant, alschuler.spinosa, USA
UDDI and ebXML from One Registry
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: High Level/Technical View
Introducing the Service Registry, part of the Sun Java(TM) Enterprise
System, which is a fully featured ebXML Registry/Repository with an additional
UDDI 3.02 Inquiry interface. One registry serves both ebXML and UDDI clients.
Presenter(s): Tony
Graham, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Ireland
4:45 PM
SOA in the Real World
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: High Level/Technical View
In this session, Ed will review how two leading financial services organizations
built and deployed production-ready SOA systems, and significantly reduced
development cycles and total cost of ownership.
Presenter(s): Chris Sirna,
Senior Consultant, AmberPoint Customer Experience Group, USA
A Tool Kit For Implementing XML Schema Naming and
Design Rules
Track: Large-Scale Architectures
Audience: High Level/Technical View
A Took Kit being developed at NIST encodes XML schema Naming and Design
Rules in a computer-interpretable fashion, enabling automated rule enforcement
and improving schema quality.
Presenter(s): Joshua
Lubell, Computer Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
USA
XMI and the Many Metamodels of Enterprise Metadata
Track: Metadata and Semantics
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The XML Metadata Interchange standard allows the capture of metadata in
all the many richly expressive metadata languages used today. With semantics
expressed by mapping to a semantic model, enterprises can automatically
manage their metadata.
Presenter(s): Joram
Borenstein, Director of Marketing, Unicorn Solutions Inc., USA & Joshua Fox, Chief Software Architect, Unicorn Solutions Inc., Israel
Remixing RSS - past, present and future
Track: Knowledge Management
Audience: High Level/Technical View
RSS Remixing past present and future: how users are remixing the RSS revolution
Presenter(s): Roland
Tanglao, Chief Blogging Officer, Bryght, Canada
Introduction to DITA
Track: Late Breaking News
Audience: High Level/Technical View
DITA is an up-and-coming standard for technical publishing in XML. In
addition to being well-designed for the task, it also includes several
interesting general-purpose technologies in its framework.
Presenter(s): Paul
Prescod, Group Program Manager, Blast Radius Products, Canada
DataDirect XQuery - Database Independent XQuery
Track: Product Presentation
Audience: Technical View
This session presents DataDirect XQuery 1.0, a database-independent implementation
of XQuery and the XQuery API for Java (JSR 225) for the Java platform.
Presenter(s): Jonathan
Robie, XML Program Manager, DataDirect Technologies, USA
7:30 PM
.gov xmlCoP
Track: Town Hall Meeting
Audience: High Level/Technical View
The regular monthly meeting of the .gov XML Community of Practice (xmlCoP)
will be conducted as a town hall meeting, in which all participants will
be welcome. XML naming and design rules and guidelines (NDRG) will be
a primary topic of discussion.
Presenter(s): Owen
Ambur, Co-Chair, XML Community of Practice (xmlCoP), USA
XML Registry APIs: the Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly?
Track: Town Hall Meeting
Audience: Technical View
Do you use an API -- in the Java(TM) programming language or another --
to access an XML Registry? What do you like or dislike about the hoops
you jump through to make the API work? Come along and share your likes
and dislikes about current methods of accessing XML Registries.
Presenter(s): Tony
Graham, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Ireland