XML 2003 Interoperability Demonstrations to Showcase
Industry Standards, Integrated Vendor Solutions
Alexandria, VA - Nov. 19, 2003 - IDEAlliance, a leading trade association dedicated to fostering information technology standards, today announced that XML Conference and Exposition 2003 will feature several "interoperability demonstrations" organized by OASIS, W3C, and WS-I. The demonstrations will showcase numerous vendors' products working together to help businesses solve critical IT challenges. XML Conference and Exposition 2003 is being held Dec. 7-12 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pa.
Marion Elledge, vice president of Information Technology Alliances & Conferences, IDEAlliance, says that the demonstrations highlight the importance of standards in allowing disparate products to join together to form comprehensive, tightly integrated business solutions.
"Simply put, standards are the 'glue' that allow companies to tie together different products to best meet their unique business and workflow needs," says Elledge. "These demonstrations, organized by leading standards organizations such as OASIS and W3C, will focus on real-world solutions made possible by industry standards and product interoperability."
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), a global consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards, has organized five demonstrations featuring a variety of OASIS standards and specifications:
* Achieving Interoperability Using Test Frameworks
Tues., Dec. 9, 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
· The OASIS WS-Reliability Interoperability Demonstration
Participating Companies: Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) Tues., Dec. 9, 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
· Epidemic Management Using OASIS ebXML, UBL and XACML Specifications
Participating Companies: Yellow Dragon, Sun, Sybase, Adobe Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE), IOPSYS, Seeburger, Cyclone Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, AmberPoint, Inc. Wed., Dec. 10, 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
· The OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Specification
Participating Companies: BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS), Citrix, IBM, Oracle, Plumtree, Vignette Wed., Dec. 10, 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), developer of interoperable Web technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools), has organized interoperability demonstrations on four topics:
* Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Implementations
* Web Services
* Semantic Web Applications and Collaboration Software
* XML Schemas in Enterprise Applications
* Providing Test Suites Using XML-based Technologies
Organizations participating in the W3C demonstrations include Arbortext, INRIA, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Open Group. Demonstrations will take place daily at XML 2003; times will be posted at the conference.
The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), which promotes Web Services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming languages, has organized interoperability demonstrations that will take place at their booth (#416) during trade show hours.
IDEAlliance, working with the International Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Prepress, Press, and Postpress (CIP4) organization and L.A. Burman Associates Inc., has planned a program at XML 2003 designed to encourage the adoption of the JDF Specification:
* JDF Seminar Keynote speaker: Kin Wah Lam of Time Inc.
Participating Companies: Adobe, Agfa, Creo, EFI, Heidelberg, QTI, Printcafe, ScreenUSA, and Wam!Net Tues., Dec. 9, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
* JDF Pavilion (Interoperability Demonstrations) Participating Companies: Agfa, EFI, Heidelberg, Printcafe, Wam!Net Dec. 9 and 10, 12:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
For more information about the demonstrations and the entire schedule for that XML Conference and Exposition 2003, visit http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2003/schedule.asp
About XML 2003
XML 2003 programs focus on critical XML topics such as B2B, content management, graphics and multimedia, publishing, vertical industry applications, Web services, and more. Keynote speakers and presenters at XML 2003 will include representatives from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT); Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW); Oracle Server Technologies (NASDAQ: ORCL); Reuters (NASDAQ: RTRSY); BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS); Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ); and IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM). For more information, visit http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2003/registration.asp.
About IDEAlliance
IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance) is a not-for-profit membership organization. Its mission is to advance user-driven, cross-industry solutions for all publishing and content-related processes by developing standards, fostering business alliances, and identifying best practices. Founded in 1966 as the Graphic Communications Association, IDEAlliance has been a leader in information technology, developing Document Markup Metalanguage (GENCODE), sponsoring the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), and fostering eXtensible Markup Language (XML). IDEAlliance builds on these languages to create specifications that enhance efficiency and speed information in all aspects of publishing and content-related processes. Learn more about IDEAlliance at www.idealliance.org.
Marion L. Elledge
IDEAlliance (celebrating 20 years of markup)
Telephone: (251) 432-3766
email: melledge@idealliance.org
Check out news and upcoming events at:
http://www.idealliance.org
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Marion L. Elledge
IDEAlliance (celebrating 20 years of markup)
Telephone: (251) 432-3766
email: melledge@idealliance.org
Check out news and upcoming events at:
http://www.idealliance.org
Call for Papers
JURIX 2003
International Workshop on the Development of Standards for Describing Legal Documents
11 December 2003, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Organized in conjunction with JURIX 2003, the 16th Annual International Conference on Legal Information Systems
Public administrations, enterprises and citizens are confronted with a growing quantity and complexity of rules, regulations and case law, from various sources at international, European, national, local and enterprise level. This development raises various issues regarding the manageability of these texts for both drafters and users.
Developing standards for the structure and content of (para)legal documents using techniques from ICT -- most notably XML and Semantic Web technologies -- may prove helpful in improving the access to, and development, quality and maintenance of these legal sources. On the other hand, the implementation and deployment of such standards within existing business processes and ICT facilities of organizations raises many issues of its own.
This workshop intends to provide a forum for end-users, researchers and developers from various organizations and backgrounds involved in this field: publishers, public administrations, legal practitioners, academics, software developers etc.
Workshop Format
The intended format of the workshop is to have a small number of invited presentations by representatives of the various stakeholders in the field, and ample time for discussion about issues like:
· Do we need such standards?
· Who should set the standards?
· What is the best way to promote these standards?
Grouped around the invited lectures, we may have short presentations of others. We welcome short position statements (max. 2-3 pages) addressing aspects of standard development and implementation in the legal field.
Papers and expression of interest should be sent to one of the organizers, preferably by email, in plain text, PDF or PostScript format, before November 15th 2003.
Organizers
Dr. Radboud Winkels
Leibniz Center for Law
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
winkels@lri.jur.uva.nl
Prof. dr. Carlo Biagioli
ITTIG-CNR
Italy
biagioli@ittig.cnr.it
Murk Muller
Attorney at Law, Data Architect
Berlin, Germany
murk.muller@mmrecht.com
Dr. Tom Gordon
ECCO competence Center
Fraunhofer FOKUS,
Berlin, Germany
Thomas.Gordon@fokus.fraunhofer.de