{"id":90,"date":"2005-08-10T12:31:52","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T19:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=90"},"modified":"2007-10-09T15:53:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T22:53:53","slug":"trends-and-transients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2005\/08\/trends-and-transients\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends and Transients"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the CSW<\/span> XML<\/span> Sum\u00admer School<\/a> in Oxford this year, I chaired the Trends and Tran\u00adsi\u00adents track. This used to be called \u201cWhat\u2019s Hot and What\u2019s Not\u201d but people used to ask which of the speak\u00aders was talk\u00ading on the what\u2019s not hot sub\u00adject, so I decided to change the title this year. As oth\u00aders<\/a> have<\/a> writ\u00adten<\/a>, this year was as much fun as pre\u00advi\u00adous years, and I hope as inform\u00adat\u00adive for the people attend\u00ading. One thing that was obvi\u00adous is that the XML<\/span> growth curve con\u00adtin\u00adues; lots of people attend\u00ading knew very little about XML<\/span> oth\u00ader than that they were expec\u00adted to imple\u00adment and use sys\u00adtems that some\u00adhow were based on it. This, of course, is because it\u2019s a school<\/em> and not a con\u00adfer\u00adence<\/em>; the \u201cTrends and Tran\u00adsi\u00adents\u201d day is a bit of an excep\u00adtion to that rule in that the top\u00adics are not neces\u00adsar\u00adily focussed as much on learn\u00ading the tech\u00adno\u00adlogy as in learn\u00ading how to eval\u00adu\u00adate wheth\u00ader a giv\u00aden tech\u00adno\u00adlogy that is cur\u00adrently being hyped is worth\u00adwhile or not. This leads to some inter\u00adest\u00ading exchanges between the speak\u00aders, who are often of dif\u00adfer\u00adent opin\u00adions. I some\u00adtimes won\u00adder wheth\u00ader it\u2019s a little con\u00adfus\u00ading for the attendees who don\u2019t know much about XML<\/span>, but I was assured by many of them that they may not have under\u00adstood it all, but it sure was enter\u00adtain\u00ading (it was of course designed to be that way, hence hav\u00ading Tim Bray<\/a>, Sean McGrath<\/a>, and Tim McGrath as speakers). <\/p>\n

As usu\u00adal, the rest of the Sum\u00admer School was enter\u00adtain\u00ading and inform\u00adat\u00adive and I got a good chance to talk to lots of people about what they\u2019re doing with XML<\/span>. And vis\u00adit\u00ading Oxford is always a joy! Thanks again to the organ\u00adisers (mostly Kerry Poult\u00ader, who provides ster\u00adling ser\u00advice with a smile every year).<\/p>\n

P.S. \u2014 please note use of the \u201cOxford comma\u201d \u2014 I usu\u00adally like using it any\u00adway, but find it par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly appro\u00adpri\u00adate here :-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the CSW<\/span> XML<\/span> Sum\u00admer School in Oxford this year, I chaired the Trends and Tran\u00adsi\u00adents track. This used to be called \u201cWhat\u2019s Hot and What\u2019s Not\u201d but people used to ask which of the speak\u00aders was talk\u00ading on the what\u2019s not hot sub\u00adject, so I decided to change the title this year. As oth\u00aders \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cTrends and Transients\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","tag-xmlsummerschool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}