Working in small technical committees on well-constrained problems can be really rewarding; the small group allows for a certain amount of fun in the meetings and everyone knows they have a role to play. I chair the OASIS Entity Resolution TC, which is working on XML Catalogs.
The idea of catalogs has been around for a [...]
What do you do when you need the answer to a question and Google doesn’t deliver? Ask on the blog of course… I would really like to know the answer to this one, as it would save a large amount of irritation and I assume others have the same problem. I’ve spent hours buried deep [...]
It’s that time of year again, fewer than 10 days until the deadline for your last chance to speak at XML 2005. This year we kept a lot of slots open for late-breaking talks (which don’t have to be only on really late-breaking subjects, good presentations on other topics that don’t duplicate material already on [...]
As usual for this time of year, the XML 2005 Conference is moving into the next level of preparation. There are quite a few sponsors signed up already (Sun Microsystems, RenderX, Justsystem, IBM, and DesignScience), the deadline for late-breaking and product presentations and town hall submissions is in 28 days (!!) and today we [...]
Tagged xmlconf2005At the CSW XML Summer School in Oxford this year, I chaired the Trends and Transients track. This used to be called “What’s Hot and What’s Not” but people used to ask which of the speakers was talking on the what’s not hot subject, so I decided to change the title this year. As others [...]
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