XML Master Series
IDEAlliance in its continued efforts to provide groundbreaking services to the XML community are introducing the XML Master Class Series the first of which will be held at XML 2005. The Master Class Series brings together successful XML use cases presented by users and industry experts to provide insight and practical guidance into today's XML standards, technologies and practices.
IDEAlliance is highlighting users that have successfully deployed XML technology in either a document-centric or XML web services environment. In a public session users will describe their applications and get direct feedback from industry experts. Examples of topics that may be discussed:
- Security; performance; scalability
- Applicability of new standards, tools and technologies
- Compatibility and interoperability issues and pointers
- Managing and maintaining vocabularies
Current Schedule:
Tuesday, November 15 / 11:00 - 12:30pm
XML Master Series: Web Services Case Study
Summary:
Our solution named OR-*, developed at the Ohio State University Medical
Center, is a suite of secure systems based on Service Oriented Architecture.
The solution uniformly treats collection of "medical actions" generated
in a hospital as electronic medical records. One suite named OR-Eye allows (desktop
or mobile) remote monitoring, recording, and replay of clinical data emerging
from the Operating Rooms and Intensive Care Units. Another suite named OR-Medication
enables recording of medication actions. A third suite named OR-Track, currently
under construction, allows patient and equipment tracking. The solution is based
on autonomous XML Web Services enhanced by open WS-* specifications (WS-Policy,
WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Reliable Messaging etc.). Ease of development
was achieved by using Microsoft's Indigo technology. We estimate that our solution
decreased the cost of implementing security by 80% compared to earlier systems
built by us. The system also facilitates billing, auditing, efficient workflow,
reduced errors, improved education and research.
Moderator: Anne Thomas Manes, Burton Group [bio]
Presenter: Furrukh Khan, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department
of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University [bio]
Experts:
Gerald Beuchelt, Web Services Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. [bio]
Parand Tony Darugar, Director of Architecture, Yahoo Search Marketing, Yahoo
Inc. [bio]
John Evdemon, Industry Architect, Microsoft Corporation [bio]
Chris Ferris, Architect, Emerging e-Business Industry Architecture (and Chair
of the WS-I Basic Profile Working Group), IBM Corporation [bio]
David Nielsen, Manager, PayPal Developer Network [bio]
John Schneider, Founder and CTO, AgileDelta, Inc. [bio]
Wednesday, November 16 / 11:00 - 12:30pm
XML Masters Series: Document Publishing Case Study
Summary:
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
For more than 60 years, ASHP has helped pharmacists who practice in hospitals
and health systems improve medication use and enhance patient safety. In support
of this mission, the Society has an extensive publishing operation, of which,
AHFS Drug Information is at the forefront. Published since 1959, AHFS (American
Hospital Formulary Service) has undergone several face-lifts (from loose-leaf
to bound in 1984) and has changed considerably behind-the-scenes, from a strictly
typesetting format to a proprietary database format (1984) to an industry-standard,
vendor-neutral format (2001). Previously published in one annual edition plus
quarterly supplements, the new AHFS Drug Information is published annually in
print and offers monthly updates. Turn-around time for the annual edition from
time of print publication to database publication was reduced from 3 months
to 2 weeks. This case study will review the steps taken leading up to conversion
of the database to SGML; selecting new vendors for editing, content management,
and composition; a return on investment analysis; and additional ASHP publishing
efforts in SGML and XML.
Moderator: James D. Mason [bio]
Presenter: Jeff Schick, American Society of Hospital Pharmacists [bio]
Experts:
Lisa Bos, Executive Vice President and Chief Architect, Co-founder, Really Strategies
[bio]
Eric Severson, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Flatirons Solutions
Corporation [bio]
B. Tommie Usdin, President, Mulberry Technologies, Inc. [bio]
Jabin White, Executive Director, Electronic Production, Elsevier [bio]
Ann Wrightson, Principal Consultant, CSW Group Ltd [bio]
Bios
Gerald Beuchelt
Gerald Beuchelt is a Web Services Architect in the Chief Technologist's Offices Business Alliance group. He is focusing on advanced web services and security technology and their application, with an in-depth focus on standards and Microsoft interoperability. Before, Gerald was an Infrastructure Services Specialist in CTO's Competitive Strategy Group. He joined the CSG in 2000. Since then he has worked on operating systems, middleware software including Java and .NET, and security, specifically in Microsoft product related areas. In this function, he worked closely with Sun Legal. Prior to that, he worked for Sun Microsystems Deutschland (Germany) as a Senior Systems Engineer, most recently taking the lead in orchestrating technical support for large sales projects.Before joining Sun, Gerald worked as a lead network architect and system administrator in ITP and IGM, Cologne, Germany, and as a freelance writer for two major German computer periodicals.Gerald recently submitted two invention disclosures to the Sun Patent Office and contributed to numerous field and engineering education summits. He also authored and co-authored various competitive white papers on Active Directory.Education: * BS Physics 1994, Ludwig-Maximillian-Universität, Munich * MS Mathematical Physics 1997, Albertus Magnus Universität zu Köln, Cologne
Lisa Bos
Since co-founding Really Strategies, Lisa serves as the executive vice president
and chief architect with primary responsibility for managing a staff of analysts
and content engineers in their successful completion of client projects. Lisa
is a recognized industry professional with hands-on content analysis and architecture,
content transformation, and project management experience. She is an expert
in the design of XML-based content management systems, and in the integration
of those systems with Web sites and other output media. Before co-founding Really
Strategies, she was the vice president of operations for BioValidity (a content
provider of life science content databases), director of content management
systems at Reed Technology and Information Services Inc. (an operating unit
of Lexis-Nexis), and manager of SGML services at Valley Forge Technical Information
Systems (a worldwide provider of authoring and publishing services to automotive
manufacturers).
Parand Darugar
I'm responsible for architecture across Yahoo Search Marketing, yahoo's largest
revenue segement. We use XML, REST, and SOAP extensively both internally and
in our external APIs. Previously, I founded Blue Titan Software, a provider
of software solutions for Web services management. Before that, I founded VelociGen,
a provider of Web site acceleration technologies. I've written several XML related
articles since 1998; an incomplete list can be found here:http://www.parand.com/talks/My
latest is here:http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-abolns.htmlI've
presented at a number of conferences, including including NextWare, Web Services
Reality, XML Edge, XML Devcon, Networld + Interop, O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
Usenix Tcl conference, and others.
John Evdemon
John Evdemon has been designing and deploying enterprise systems for nearly
two decades. John is currently developing/evangelizing Business Architectures
and Standards for the Public Sector (e-Government and Education Industries).
John also serves as Co-Chair of the BPEL4WS (Business Process Execution Language
for Web Services) standard. Prior to joining Microsoft John was CTO for a successful
XML-based e-business start-up and Director of XML/Web Services for a large integration
vendor. John has designed and delivered XML-based solutions for companies like
JP Morgan, Visa and General Motors. John also assisted in the development of
the W3C XML Technical Recommendation and has been involved with various e-business
standards at OASIS, UN/CEFACT and X12. John also served as Editor-in-Chief of
XML Journal while contributing to several books and journals on XML and e-business.
John is an experienced speaker and teacher, having lectured at universities
and industry trade shows around the world. John is a member of both IEEE and
ACM and with a BS in Computer Science and a Masters in Information Security.
Chris Ferris
Chris Ferris is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Software Standards
Strategy group. He has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering
of distributed systems for most of his 25+ year career in IT and has been actively
engaged in open standards development for XML and Web services since 1999. Chris
currently chairs the WS-I Basic Profile Working Group, that is responsible for
the development of the WS-I Basic Profile. He represents IBM on the W3C XML
Protocols WG, where he serves as editor. He represents IBM on the OASIS WS-RX
TC. Additionally, he is an author and editor of the WS-Reliable Messaging specification
and the IBM RAMP profile. He is a former elected member of the OASIS Technical
Advisory Board (TAB) and past chair of the W3C Web services Architecture Working
Group.
Professor Furrukh Khan
Prof. Khan and his team are responsible for the development of OR-*, a suite
of healthcare systems based on Services Oriented Architecture (XML Web Services)
for the Ohio State University Medical Center. Prof. Khan is an associate professor
in the department of Electrical Engineering at the Ohio State University. He
also holds joint positions in the department of Computer and Information Sciences
in the College of Engineering, and department of Anesthesiology in the College
of Medicine. He is currently interested in developing production healthcare
systems based on SOAP Web Services enhanced by using emerging WS-* open specifications
(WS-Routing, WS-Security, WS-Policy, WS-Trust etc.). Prof. Khan has lectured
extensively on enterprise distributed computing and security in the USA, Europe
and Asia. His projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation,
Naval Research Laboratory, Office of Naval Research, Air Force, Wright Patterson
Air Force Base, Cray Research., Lucent Technologies, and Microsoft Research.
Anne Thomas Manes
Anne Thomas Manes is Vice President and Research Director with Burton Group
(http://www.burtongroup.com), a research and advisory firm. She leads research
on application platform strategies, with a specific focus on web services and
service-oriented architecture. Anne is a widely recognized industry expert on
web services. In 2002, NetworkWorld named Anne one of the 50 most powerful people
in networking. The previous year she received a similar honor from Enterprise
Systems Journal, who listed her among the 2001 Power 100 IT Leaders. She is
the author of "Web Services: A Manager's Guide" (ISBN 0321185773).
She is a member of the editorial board of Web Services Journal, a leading industry
publication. She is a frequent speaker at trade shows and author of numerous
articles. Anne has participated in web services standards development efforts
at W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and JCP. Prior to her role at Burton Group, Anne was Chief
Technology Officer at Systinet, a web services infrastructure company. Prior
to joining Systinet, Anne was Director of Market Innovation at Sun Microsystems,
where she led Sun's early web services strategy. Anne developed her expertise
working at a number of the world's leading hardware and software companies.
James D. Mason
James D. Mason, originally trained as a mediaevalist and linguist, has been
a writer, systems developer, and manufacturing engineer at U.S. Department of
Energy facilities in Oak Ridge since the late 1970s. In 1981, he joined the
ISO’s work on standards for document management and interchange. He has chaired
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34, which is responsible for SGML, DSSSL, Topic Maps, and related
standards, since 1985. Dr. Mason has been a frequent writer and speaker on standards
and their applications. For his work on SGML, Dr. Mason has received the Gutenberg
Award from Printing Industries of America and the Tekkie Award from GCA. Dr.
Mason was chairman of the Knowledge Technologies 2002 conference and has been
cochairman of the Extreme Markup Languages conferences since 2003, all sponsored
by IDEAlliance. He is currently working on information systems to support the
classification community in DOE and to support manufacturing planning at DOE's
Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
David Nielsen
Dave manages the PayPal Developer Network for PayPal, an eBay company. With over 86 million accounts, PayPal is the standard in online payments. And with over 300,000 ecommerce integrators and solution providers, PDN is the largest community of ecommerce professionals on the internet. Dave’s recent focus has been supporting the release of PayPal Pro, which enables merchants to process credit cards and transfer money via SOAP-based Web Services.
Prior to joining PayPal in 2003, Dave was a partner at Persistent Web, an internet consulting company which provided ecommerce, systems integration and training. Dave also serves as co-chair of the SDForum Web Services SIG and where he has arranged over 40 industry leaders to share their insights about Web Services since he founded the user group in 2001. Dave received his BS Business from Cal Poly: San Luis Obispo in 1993. Recently, Dave gained notoriety when he proposed to his girlfriend in his book, PayPal Hacks, by O’Reilly Publishing.
PayPal Developer Network - http://www.paypal.com/pdn
PayPal Pro - http://www.paypal.com/pro
SDForum Web Services SIG - http://www.sdforum.org/sigs/webservices
PayPal Hacks - http://www.paypalhacks.com
John Schneider
Mr. Schneider is founder and CTO at AgileDelta, Inc., an independent software
vendor that supplies XML and web services infrastructure for mobile and embedded
devices. He founded and led the ECMAScript for XML (E4X) initiative, creating
the first mainstream programming language with native XML support. He also initiated
and led the development of Efficient XML, the only binary XML format available
with the performance, generality and extensibility to meet the requirements
established by the W3C. He helped develop several core XML standards and was
U.S. delegate to NATO on international technology initiatives related to XML,
messaging and information interoperability. Prior to founding AgileDelta, Mr.
Schneider led Engineering and Program Management for Crossgain, a high profile
startup founded to radically simplify building and deploying web services (acquired
by BEA). He was also Principal Systems Engineer at MITRE. Mr. Schneider has
over twenty years experience developing technologies focused on mobile computing,
information interoperability, information management, data compression and messaging.
He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science.
Eric Severson
An internationally recognized XML pioneer and content management industry expert,
Mr. Severson has over twenty years of experience in the technology field, ranging
from hands-on product development and consulting to senior management roles
in engineering and marketing. Mr. Severson is currently Chief Technology Officer
and a co-founder of Flatirons Solutions Corporation, where he leads a consulting
and systems integration practice specializing in content management, collaboration,
and XML-based publishing. Prior to joining Flatirons in 2001, Mr. Severson was
Chief Technology Officer for eConvergent, a software vendor specializing in
correlating customer data across disparate databases and application systems.
From 1996-1999, he was an Executive Consultant for IBM Global Services, where
he focused on content management and XML, and was a principal developer of IBM's
XML certification test. Before joining IBM, Mr. Severson served as Vice President
and Chief Strategist for Interleaf, Inc., a publishing and content management
vendor, and was co-founder and CTO of Avalanche (a pioneer SGML/XML software
development company). Mr. Severson is a past President of OASIS (formerly SGML
Open), a past board member of the Graphic Communications Association (GCA),
and was a member of the advisory boards of the AIIM Document Management Alliance
and the Xerox Executive Roundtable for Document Technology. Mr. Severson holds
an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin, and completed Ph.D.
coursework in Computer Science at the University of Colorado. He also holds
an IBM consultant certification, an IBM XML developer certification, a CPA certificate,
and a Certificate in Data Processing (CDP).
Jeff Shick
Jeff Shick graduated from Ohio Northern University College of Pharmacy (Ada,
Ohio), and went through a post-graduate residency program in pharmacy informatics
sponsored by Ohio Northern University and Blanchard Valley Regional Medical
Center (Findlay, Ohio). Following several years of hospital and retail practice,
Mr. Shick moved to the Washington, DC area to work for the American Society
of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) as clinical informaticist in the Publications
and Drug Information Systems Office. In the past six years with ASHP, Shick
has overseen the conversion of ASHP's primary publication, AHFS Drug Information,
from a proprietary typesetting database to vendor-neutral, industry standard
SGML. He also oversaw the implementation of the SGML/XML editorial tool, XMetaL
(Blast Radius), and the Vasont content management system (Progressive Information
Technologies). As director of the eHealth Solutions division of the Publications
Office, Shick monitors all new publication proposals to determine which products
would benefit the most from content re-use. Currently, content from AHFS Drug
Information, AHFS Essentials, AHFS Drug Handbook, AHFS Dosing Companion, ASHP
Best Practices, Trissel's Handbook on Injectable Drugs, Pocket Guide to Injectable
Drugs, and MedMaster Patient Drug Information is stored in SGML or XML and is
repurposed for print, desktop software, web, and PDAs.
B. Tommie Usdin
B. Tommie Usdin is President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy specializing
in XML and SGML. Ms. Usdin has been working with SGML since 1985 and has been
a supporter of XML since 1996. Ms. Usdin has developed DTDs, Schemas, and XML/SGML
application frameworks for applications in government and industry. Projects
include reference materials in medicine, science, engineering, and law; semiconductor
documentation; and historical and archival materials. Distribution formats have
included print books and journals, and both web-based and media based electronic
publications.
Jabin White
Jabin White is the Executive Director of Electronic Production for Elsevier,
serving the Health Sciences Division and dedicated to topics such as markup
languages and supporting tools, content management, and workflow engineering.
White came to Elsevier as part of the acquisition of Harcourt Health Sciences,
where he led the Electronic Publishing Services group that published under the
imprints of Mosby, W.B. Saunders, and Churchill Livingstone. His group performs
the production work for such products as MD Consult, Mosby's Drug Consult, and
The Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists. Before joining
Elsevier, White was the Content Specialist for Unbound Medicine, a company specializing
in delivering unique, question-answering content to the point of physicians'
need via handheld devices and Web technologies. White started in health sciences
publishing as an editorial assistant at Current Medicine, and learned SGML in
the mid-90's working on the drug reference Physicians GenRx at Mosby. From there,
he moved to Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, where he served as Senior Manager
of the company's SGML/XML group. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University
with a BA in history and is pursuing a Masters in Business Administration/Information
Science at Pennsylvania State University.
Ann Wrightson
Ann has over 25 years of wide-ranging ICT experience and is an internationally
recognized expert in XML and related technologies. She has experience of supporting
and leading change, enabling technology adoption and migration, implementing
standards, and facilitating understanding between business and technical staff
involved in managing business change. Ann presents regularly at international
conferences and participates in standards development both in the UK and internationally.
Ann is a strategic thinker with strong analysis, synthesis and interpersonal
skills, and a good communicator both verbally and in writing. She is highly
experienced in working interactively with individuals and groups to facilitate
understanding and resolution of complex issues, and has advised amongst others
the Cabinet Office eGU (formerly the Office of the e-Envoy), the Local e-Government
Standards Body, the National Archives, the NHS Information Authority, the Houses
of Parliament, British Telecom, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers Global IT.