Updated document locations: This document provides event information for part of 2005 and for earlier years. For later event information, see:
- Conferences 2008
- Conferences 2007 [under construction]
- Conferences 2006
- Conferences 2005
The intent in this section is to provide links for significant (SGML/XML) markup technologies conferences and workshops, including, as appropriate:
- Conference announcements
- Published conference agendas
- Conference proceedings
- Conference reports
For other calendar listings relevant to SGML/XML conferences, workshops, and seminars, see the OASIS Calendar of Events.
2005
See: Conferences 2005"
Extreme Markup Languages 2005. August 1 - 5, 2005. Best Western Europa-Downtown, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- "An unfettered festival of unconventional markup. Pointy-brackets, pointed questions, and sharp ideas. Nearly a week of geek speak. Also a peer-reviewed technical conference."
- Extreme Markup 2005 web site
- About Extreme 2005
- Call for Papers
- Call for Tutorials
- Extreme Markup Languages 2004 Reports:
- "Extreme Markup 2004." By James Mason. XML.com.
- "TEI Report on Extreme Markup Languages, 2004." By Lou Burnard.
- "Extremely Good Again." By Norman Walsh. Blog.
- Extreme 2003 Testimonials. Allen Renear, Tom Passin, Dimitre Novatchev, Simon St. Laurent, etc.
- Extreme Markup Languages 2004 [local reference]
- Extreme 2004 Conference [IDEAlliance]
- Extreme Conference information from Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
- Extreme Conference Proceedings 2001 - 2004
The XML Summer School 2005. July 24 - 29, 2005. Wadham College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- "Co-inventor of XML 1.0 to Speak at CSW's XML Summer School 2005." Announcement April 28, 2005.
- XML Summer School 2005: Overview
- Speakers
- Applications tracks:
- CSW XML Summer School web site
- CSW Group web site
Second International ODRL Workshop. July 7 - 8, 2005. Lisbon, Portugal.
- "Submissions are invited covering implementations, research, deployment, and profile extensions of ODRL across all industries, as well as complementary research in the field of Rights Expression Languages and their impact on the DRM and creative sector."
- Workshop web site
- Call for Participation. Submissions due April 15, 2005.
- Contact: Program Chairs at workshop-chairs@odrl.net (Susanne Guth, Vienna University of Economics and BA, Austria; Carlos Serrao, Adetti, Portugal)
- Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Workshop 2004. Papers online.
- ODRL Workshop 2005 Report. By Susanne Guth, Renato Iannella, and Carlos Serrão
- Complete ODRL Workshop Proceedings [cache]
- Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative web site
- "Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL)" - Local references.
- "XML and Digital Rights Management (DRM)" - Local references.
XML Prague 2005. June 25, 2005. Malá Strana (aka Lesser Town), Prague, the Czech Republic.
- "A free one-day conference devoted to discussion on topics related to core XML technologies." Hosted by Institute for Theoretical Computer Science and Ginger Alliance.
- Conference web site
- Conference program
- Presentation descriptions [cache display version]
- Speakers: Michael Kay, Robin Berjon, Eric van der Vlist, Kurt Cagle, Miloslav Nič, James Fuller, Petr Pajas.
- Contact: Petr Cimprich (Ginger Alliance)
XTech 2005. "XML, the Web and Beyond." May 24 - 27, 2005. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- "... the premier European conference for developers and managers working with XML and Web technologies, bringing together the worlds of web development, open source, semantic web and open standards..."
- Conference Chair: Edd Dumbill. Planning Committee: Dan Brickley, Eric van der Vlist, Jeni Tennison, Matt Biddulph, Marion Elledge.
- Conference web site
- "XTech 2005 Conference Adds New Tracks for Browser Technology and Open Data." News story 2005-01-06.
- XTech 2005: Announcement and Call for Participation
- XTech 2005 Conference Program
- XTech 2005 Conference Wiki
- OASIS Open Standards Day
- News Standards Summit. See the web site for details.
Fedora Users' Conference. May 13 - 14, 2005. Teleconference Lecture Hall of the Scholarly Communication Center, Alexander Library, Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
- "Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) is a framework or platform that is being used in many different applications including digital library projects, digital preservation/archiving, and institutional repositories."
- Conference web site
- Conference program
- Expanded program listing [unofficial]
- "Fedora Version 2.0 Open-Source Repository Supports XML and Web Services." News story 2005-03-18.
- Fedora Project web site
WWW 2005: Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference. May 10 - 14, 2005. Makuhari Messe (Nippon Convention Center), Chiba, Japan.
- Conference web site
- Program
- XML and Web Services track
- Keynote Presentations: Tim Berners-Lee, Eric Brewer, Lorrie Cranor, Rob Glaser, Yuji Inoue
- List of accepted posters
- W3C Track at WWW2005. See the overview and announcement
W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability. April 27 - 28, 2005. Washington, D.C., USA.
- Workshop web site
- Announcement: "World Wide Web Consortium Holds Rule Languages Workshop. First Gathering of Industry Leaders in Business Rules and Semantic Web applications."
- List of Accepted Papers
- Workshop Program
- Call for Participation
- Workshop participants
- Announcement
- "W3C Announces Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability." News story 2005-02-21.
- References for (business) rule languages
OASIS Symposium 2005. "The Future of XML Vocabularies." April 24 - 29, 2005. New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans, LA, USA.
- "Addressing the challenges in developing cross-industry vocabularies and component dictionaries such as OASIS UBL, OAGI, UN/CEFACT Core Components, and RosettaNet: What relevance, if any, do they have to other domain-specific vocabulary development initiatives?"
- Tutorials and General Meeting April 24-26; OASIS Annual General Meeting (AGM) April 26; OASIS Technical Committee Meetings Wednesday April 27 - Friday April 29.
- About the Symposium
- Call for Participation
- "Standards Community Gathers for OASIS Symposium On the Future of XML Vocabularies. Open Source Advocate, Mitchell Kapor, to Keynote."
- Symposium web site
- Symposium Program
- Symposium Presenters
- OASIS Technical Committee Meeting Schedule
2004
XML 2004 Conference and Exposition. "XML: From Syntax to Solutions." November 15 - 19, 2004. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C., USA.
- XML 2004 Conference web site
- "XML 2004: Executive Summary." Report by Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga and Russell Ruggiero.
- XML 2004 Conference Proceedings
- XML 2004 Presentation Slides
- XML 2004 Conference Schedule-at-a-glance
- Detailed program listings:
- XML 2004 Tutorials
- XML 2004 Conference Presenters
- XML 2004 Planning Committee
- "XML 2004 to Focus on Government XML Applications. Expanded Government Track to Highlight XML Applications in U.S. and Abroad. XML.gov, KM.gov, CIO Council, and SICoP to Co-Host Event."
- See XML 2003 Conference and Exposition
OASIS Adoption Forum: Implementing e-Business Open Standards for End Users and Public Administration. October 6, 2004. Crowne Plaza Brussels City Centre, Brussels, Belgium.
- "The OASIS Adoption Forum on Implementing e-Business Open Standards for End Users and Public Administration is a one-day event designed for providers, integrators and users of e-Business systems for public administrations and private enterprises."
- OASIS Adoption Forum web site
- Program listing
- Co-located OASIS Technical Committee Meetings: October 4-5, 2004
Extreme Markup Languages 2004. August 2 - 6, 2004. Hotel Europa, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- Call for Participation
- Conference web site
- Schedule
- Program details
- Tutorials
- Sponsored by IDEAlliance
- Contact: extreme@mulberrytech.com
- See also: Extreme Markup Languages 2003
CSW XML Summer School 2004. July 25 - 30, 2004. Wadham College, Oxford, UK.
- Featured speakers include: Kal Ahmed, Sandy Boyer, Martin Bryan, John Chelsom, Gary Cornelius, Bob DuCharme, Peter Flynn, Pam Gennusa, Stephen Green, Marc Hadley, Andrew Hinchley, Michael Kay, John Kemp, Colin Mackenzie, Eve Maler, Jonathan Monks, Dave Nurse, Andrew Orlowski, David Pawson, Steve Pepper, Peter Rodgers, Gregor Rothfuss, Ron Summers, Jeni Tennison, Malcolm Todd, Brett Trusko, Kevin Wise, Lauren Wood, Reuben Wright, and Ann Wrightson.
- Summer School web site
- Overview
- Program
- CSW Group web site
- See also: Oxford CSW XML Summer School 2003 (Fourth Annual Event, July 27 - 31, 2003, Wadham College, Oxford, UK).
- See also: Oxford XML Summer School 2002
O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2004. "Opening the Future: Discover, Develop, Deliver". July 26 - 30, 2004. Portland Marriott Downtown, Portland, OR, USA.
2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004). "Convergence of Web Services, Grid Computing, e-Business, and Autonomic Computing." July 6 - 9, 2004. Westin Horton Plaza Hotel, San Diego, California, USA.
- Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Community for Services Computing (TCSC)
- Conference web site
- Call for participation [source]
- Program
- ICWS 2004 Industrial Program. Contact Roger Barga (Microsoft) or Sinisa Zimek (SAP).
- See also: ISWC 2003 - Second International Semantic Web Conference
JCDL 2004. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2004. "Global Reach and Diverse Impact." June 7 - 11, 2004. Hilton El Conquistador Hotel, Tucson, AZ, USA.
- JCDL 2004 Conference website
- Call for Papers [cache]
- JCDL website
- The Third ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2003)
- Past JCDL Conferences
- Contact: Richard Furuta, JCDL Steering Committee Chair
ETD 2004 Symposium. Seventh International Conference on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. June 3 - 5, 2004. University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
- Organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
- Conference website
- ETD 2004 Conference Chair: Suzie Allard (School of Information Science, University of Tennessee)
- See: "Electronic Theses and Dissertations Worldwide. Highlights of the ETD 2003 Symposium." By John H. Hagen, Susanne Dobratz, and Peter Schirmbacher. In D-Lib Magazine Volume 9, Number 7/8 (July/August 2003).
Workshop on XML-Based Richly Annotated Corpora. LREC 2004 Post-Conference Event. May 29, 2004. Lisbon, Portugal.
- "LREC Post-Conference Workshop on XML-Based Richly Annotated Corpora." News story 2003-12-29.
- First Announcement and Call for Papers
- Workshop web site
- Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. "In Memory of Antonio Zampolli." Lisbon, Portugal. Main conference: 26 - 28 May 2004. Workshops: 24 - 25 and 29 - 30 May 2004.
UCC U Connect Conference 2004. May 25 - 27, 2004. Hilton Anaheim Resort, Anaheim, California, USA.
- "featuring a three-day education and networking event that will bring together a global audience of supply chain technology users from a variety of industries for educational sessions, networking opportunities, and an exhibition by technology vendors..."
- Conference information
- Announcement
- Uniform Code Council (UCC) website
WWW2004. The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference. May 17 - 22, 2004. New York Sheraton, New York, NY, USA.
- "WWW2004: The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference"
- WWW 2004 Call for Participation
- WWW 2004 Conference website
- CFP Index
- Refereed Papers Track
- Alternate Tracks. Alternate tracks include a combination of peer-reviewed papers and invited presentations.
OASIS Symposium on Reliable Infrastructures for XML. April 26 - 29, 2004. New Orleans Marriott, 555 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA, USA.
- OASIS Hosts Open Symposium on XML-Based Messaging and Networking Infrastructure. News story 2004-04-08.
- Announcement: "The OASIS Symposium on Reliable Infrastructures for XML OASIS Annual General Meeting and Technical Committee Meetings to Follow April 26 - 29, 2004 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA."
- Symposium web site
- Program overview
- Schedule
ODRL International Workshop 2004. April 21 - 23, 2004. Hotel Arkadenhof, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria.
- Keynotes: Rigo Wenning (W3C), Andreas Deppe (T-Systems, Germany), Willms Buhse (Vice Chair, OMA DRM Working Group & CoreMedia, Germany), Bill Smith (Sun Microsystems, USA).
- Workshop website
- Workshop program
- "ODRL International Workshop 2004 Call for Participation." News item 2003-10-17.
- Announcement: "ODRL International Workshop 2004 In Vienna"
- Website: Call for Participation
- "Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL)" - Local reference document.
- "XML and Digital Rights Management (DRM)."
Content Management Strategies Conference 2004. April 19 - 21, 2004. Crowne Plaza Hotel, San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA.
- "Learn about the relationship between the Information Process Maturity Model and the successful implementation of content management, how to implement complex enterprise content management, managing global content with content management, DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture), topic maps, optimizing content management with XML and much more..."
- Conference web site
- Conference agenda
- Conference program
XML Europe 2004. "Documenting the Future." April 18 - 21, 2004. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- "The theme 'Documenting the Future' reflects the key role XML plays in capturing an ever-increasing portion of our lives -- whether business transactions, our interactions with government, or our creative endeavours..."
- Conference web site
- Call for Participation. By Edd Dumbill (XML Europe 2004 Conference Chair)
- Contacts: Conference Chair: Edd Dumbill; Conference Director: Jane Harnad (+1 703 837-1095).
- Conference Planning Committee: Pam Gennusa (Ontopia), Eric van der Vlist (Dyomedea), Marion Elledge (IDEAlliance), Dan Brickley (W3C), and Karl Best (OASIS).
- See also: XML Europe 2003 Conference & Exposition
- See also: XML Europe 2003 List of Presenters
RIDE WS-ECEG 2004. 14th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering. Web Services for E-Commerce and E-Government Applications. March 28 - 29, 2004. Omni Parker House Hotel, Boston, MA, USA.
- Held in conjunction with ICDE 2004. "The objective of RIDE-WS-ECEG 2004 is to bring together researchers, e-commerce leaders, e-government leaders, and users to exchange the results and ideas on the issues related to Web services and the support they provide for E-Commerce and E-Government Applications."
- Workshop website
- Accepted Papers [cache]
- Call for papers [cache]
Twelfth Annual WinWriters Online Help Conference. March 28 - 31, 2004. Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, Hollywood, California, USA.
- Conference website
- Conference Agenda
- Conference Speakers
- Seminars
- "Enabling Information Architecture with DITA," presented by Andrea Ames (IBM). See references for Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA XML).
- "The DITA Standard: Designed for Topics," presented by Erik Hennum (IBM).
The Gilbane Conference on Content Management. March 24 - 26, 2004. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- "...covers content management technologies and enterprise solutions and provide educational information for IT managers, system architects, and technically oriented business and project managers... data rich content, for example, information associated with complex products found in aerospace and defense, electronics, pharmaceutical and biotech, etc., and media rich content, such as digital assets used in training, brand marketing, and media applications..."
- Conference web site
- Conference at-a-glance [cache]
- Contact: Jeff Arcuri, tel: +1 781-821-6634
- Lighthouse Seminars
DATAX Workshop 2004. International Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML information on the Web. March 14, 2004, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
- A workshop held in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2004), March 14 - 18, 2004.
- Call for Papers: DATAX Workshop 2004 [PDF]
- Workshop web site
- See also Accepted papers for EDBT 2004, including: "Efficient Schema-Based Revalidation of XML"; "Query-Customized Rewriting and Deployment of DB-to-XML Mappings"; "Efficient Query Evaluation over Compressed XML Data"; "A Tale of Two Schemas: Creating a Temporal XML Schema from a Snapshot Schema with tXSchema"; "XPath with Conditional Axes"; "XQzip: Querying Compressed XML Using Structural Indexing").
- Email contact: Marco Mesiti at dataX@disi.unige.it
AIIM 2004 Conference. March 8 - 10, 2004. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY, USA.
- Call for speakers. Deadline is July 28, 2003.
- Conference Tracks: Business Process Management & Workflow; Content and Document Management; ECM In Practice; Electronic Records Management and Regulatory Issues; Imaging and Forms Processing; Storage and Preservation. Presentations should be: Case Study, Benchmark or Industry Study, Panel discussion, or Lecture.
- Contact: Tiera Kendle, +1 301-755-2636
- See: AIIM 2003 Conference
- AIIM International website
Web Services Edge 2004 East International Conference & Expo. February 24 - 26, 2004. Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, USA.
- "Web Services, .NET, Java, XML, and Mac OS X..."
- Conference website
- Call for Papers CFP closes August 31, 2003.
- SYS-CON Media
RSA Conference 2004. 13th Annual RSA Event. February 23 - 27, 2004. Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- "The RSA Conference is the largest cryptography and data security event in the world."
- RSA Conference web site
- Conference agenda
- Conference at-a-glance
- Sponsors and Exhibitors
- Information: conferenceinfo@rsasecurity.com
OMG Workshop on Deploying Service Oriented Architectures. February 23 - 26, 2004. San Jose, CA, USA.
Third Annual O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. February 9 - 12, 2004. Westin Horton Plaza San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
- "Meet at ETech to vet the projects and ideas that will radically alter not just the future of computing, but the way we live and work."
- Conference web site
- Sessions and Events
- Conference Speakers
- O'Reilly Emergent Democracy Forum
EclipseCon 2004. February 2 - 5, 2004. Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, CA, USA.
- Conference web site
- Announcement: "Eclipse Announces EclipseCon 2004: Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration. OMG to organize First Annual Eclipse Event."
- Keynotes
- Conference Program
- Eclipse Foundation Formed
- Eclipse.org Web site of the Eclipse Foundation.
SIGS Datacom OOP 2004. "From Technology to Business." January 19 - 23, 2004. International Congress Center Munich (ICM), Germany.
- "The technical focus includes the topics Java, Open Source, and .NET including sessions on how they compare ... current trend topics such as UML 2.0 and MDA will be addressed; we also offer domain-specific tracks on the following areas: E-Government, Finance, Automobile, and Mobile."
- Conference web site
- Program (HTML)
- Program (PDF) [cache]
- Review of OOP 2003
National Information Standards Organization's (NISO) Annual Meeting. January 9 - 12, 2004. U.S. Grant Hotel, San Diego, California, USA.
- Held in conjunction with the midwinter meeting of the American Library Association (ALA)
- Announcement: "Perens to Highlight Legal, Technical Curbs on Information Exchange in NISO Keynote. Annual Meeting Free and Open to All. Other Events Include ISBN and NISO Standards Briefings."
- NISO Programs at ALA Midwinter 2004
- NISO web site
2003
First International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2003). "The New Computing Paradigm for the Networked World." December 15 - 18, 2003. Trento, Italy.
- Sponsored by IBM, Springer Verlag, and the University of Trento
- Conference web site
- Accepted Papers
- Program
IASTED Special Session on Architectures and Languages for Digital Rights Management and Access Control. December 11, 2003. New York City, NY, USA.
- Part of the IASTED International Conference on Communication, Network, and Information Security (CNIS 2003), December 10-12, 2003.
- Presented by Dr. Mariemma I. Yagüe, the University of Malaga, Spain
- DRM Session online information
- CNIS 2003
- International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED)
- "XML and Digital Rights Management (DRM)."
19th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. "Practical Solutions to Real Security Problems." December 8 - 12, 2003. Aladdin Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
XML 2003 Conference and Exposition. "Now We're Cooking". December 7 - 12, 2003. Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Conference website
- Conference Session Topic Details
- Schedule at a glance
- "XML 2003 Call for Presentations, Tutorials, Exhibits, and Sponsors."
- "XML 2003 News Standards Summit Seeks Interoperability and Convergence." Meeting December 8, 2003. See the News Standards Summit website and agenda [agenda snapshot].
- "Spotlight on Government, Military XML Applications at XML 2003. Government, Industry Representatives to Detail XML Implementations. Premier XML Industry Event Runs December 7-12, 2003 in Philadelphia."
- Contact: IDEAlliance
- See XML Conference and Exposition 2002
Online Information 2003. December 2 - 4, 2003. Olympia Conference Centre and Grand Hall, Hammersmith, London, UK.
- "Online Information 2003 is the event where the world of nformation content, management and delivery converge attracting an international audience of over 11,000 visitors and over 280 exhibitors."
- Information Content: Company Business and Financial Information, Legal and Regulatory Information, News, Market Research and Competitive Intelligence, STM Information. Information & Content Management: Classification and Taxonomy, Collaboration and Knowledge Management, Content Creation and ePublishing, Content Management, eRecords Management, Intranets and Portals, Search Technologies, Library Automation,
- Conference website
- Conference themes
- Call for participation [source]
ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2003. November 20 - 22, 2003. INRIA Rhône-Alpes Research Unit, Grenoble, France.
- Organizing Committee: Cécile Roisin, Ethan Munson, and Christine Vanoirbeek.
- Symposium website
- Call for papers [PDF, cache]
- Steering Committee and Program Committee
- ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
- See: DocEng 2002 - ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, November 8 - 9, 2002.
RFID Privacy Workshop at MIT. November 15, 2003. Bartos Theater, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA.
- Sponsored in part by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT Media Lab, and RSA Laboratories.
- Workshop website
- Workshop Agenda
- Organizing Committee
- Contact: Simson L. Garfinkel (RFID Privacy Workshop Chair).
- "Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Resources and Readings."
China International Forum on WWW's Development 2003. November 12 - 13, 2003. Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Fifth International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2003). November 7 - 8, 2003. Hotel Inter-Continental, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA.
- Held in Conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2003)
- Conference web site
- Call for papers
- Conference program [cache]
- See: WIDM 2002 - Fourth International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management.
XML UK Topic Maps Seminar. "Real World Topic Maps: How to Manage Knowledge and Address the Challenge of Infoglut." November 5, 2003. Duxford Officers' Mess, Duxford, Cambridge, UK.
- Sponsored by XML UK - the UK Forum for Structured Information Standards
- Speakers include Kal Ahmed (Techquila), Peter Brown (European Parliament), Stian Danenbarger (Bouvet), Jean Delahousse (Mondeca), Steve Pepper (Ontopia), Antony Scott (RivCom), and Ann Wrightson (Hedra).
- Seminar website
- Contact: Pam Gennusa (Ontopia)
- (XML) Topic Maps
2003 ACM Workshop on XML Security. October 31, 2003. George W. Johnson Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
- Held in conjunction with the Tenth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS-10)
- Workshop website
- Program listing
- Program, snapshot
- CCS 2003. Tenth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS-10).
DRM 2003. 2003 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management. October 27, 2003. The Wyndham City Center Washington DC, USA.
- Held in conjunction with the Tenth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS-10)
- Workshop website
- Program, and text snapshot 2003-09.
- CCS 2003. Tenth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS-10).
ISWC 2003. Second International Semantic Web Conference. October 20 - 23, 2003. Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.
- ISWC 2003 is supported in part by the OntoWeb network, in cooperation with the DARPA DAML Program. Held in conjunction with K-CAP 2003: The Second International Conference on Knowledge Capture.
- Conference website
- Call for papers
- Program
- See: First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2002)
Sixth International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language (UML 2003). "Modeling Languages and Applications." October 20 - 24, 2003. Fort Mason Center and Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel. San Francisco, California, USA.
Digital ID World Conference 2003." "Identity is Center." October 15 - 17, 2003. Denver, Colorado, USA.
- Identity management: "security risk, identity theft, provisioning, access control, authentication and authorization, regulatory compliance, password management, cross-boundary security, supply chain integration, protecting confidential data, ensuring privacy..."
- Conference website
- Conference Schedule
- Speaker list
- Digital ID World web magazine
- See: Digital ID World Conference 2002.
ER 2003. 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. October 13 - 16, 2003. DoubleTree North Shore Hotel, [Skokie] Chicago, Illinois, USA.
SIGDOC 2003. "Finding Real-World Solutions for Documentation: How Theory Informs Practice and Practice Informs Theory." October 12 - 15, 2003. Holiday Inn Financial. San Francisco, CA, USA.
- ACM SIGDOC is the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group for Documentation, a professional organization dedicated to advanced topics in documentation for and with computers.
- Conference website
- Call for Papers [cache]
- Program Committee
- Email contact: sigdoc2003@acm.org
FTP Enterprise Architecture Summit 2003. October 12 - 14, 2003. Westin Mission Hills Resort, Palm Springs, California, USA.
- "an event hosted by Fawcette Technical Publications, focused on IT professionals tasked with integrating overall IT needs with business demands, to create real-world architectural solutions..."
- EAS website
- Program listing
- Speakers. Including: Blake Stone, Bob Blakely, Gordon Simpson, Fred Meyer, Jonathan Schwartz, Peter Coad, Jean Paoli, Gordon Eubanks, Dave Moellenhoff, John McDowall, Jon Udell, Chris Barlow, Glenn Fleischman, Doc Searls, Charles Stack, Scott Dietzen, John Fowler, Grady Booch, Marc Fleury, Gordon van Huizen, Annrai O'Toole, Chris Couper, David Litwack, and Felix Racca.
XML in the News. XMLUK.org (XML UK) Conference. "How XML is Being Implemented in Newspapers and Related Media." October 7, 2003. The Magic Circle, Euston, London, UK.
- Presenters include David Allen (IPTC/NewsML), Alison Clark (XPRL.org), David Cole (The Cole Papers), Ian Davies (Archant Group), David Jones (Vio Worldwide/AdsML), Allan Marshall (Associated Mediabase), and Tony Stewart (RivCom). Organized by RivCom.
- Meeting web site. See the snapshot of the program.
- Conference brochure [cache]
- XML UK home page
The Cocoon GetTogether, Edition 2003. October 7, 2003. Ghent, Belgium.
- "Apache Cocoon is an XML-centric web application development platform from the collection of Apache Software Foundation projects. The Cocoon GetTogether is the main annual gathering of Cocoon users and developers."
- Event web site
- Call for Participation
- Program
- Contact: Steven Noels
- Apache Cocoon GetTogether 2002
- The Apache Cocoon Project
XML Asia 2003. "XML: Empowering Economies." October 6 - 7, 2003. Seoul, Korea.
- Hosted by ECIF (Integrated Forum on Electronic Commerce), co-hosted by IDEAlliance.
- Conference information
- ECIF: WWW, email ecif@ecif.or.kr.
- Contact: Marion L. Elledge (melledge@ideallianace.org or +1 (251) 432-3766.
OASIS Open Standards Conference 2003. October 1 - 3, 2003. Grace Hotel, Sydney, Australia.
- This event will focus on standards for e-business such as ebXML, Web services, the Liberty Alliance Project, and related topics. Allette Systems and OASIS are organizing the first Open Standards Conference in Australia.
- Call for Papers
- Conference website
Web Services Edge West 2003. September 30 - October 2, 2003. Santa Clara, California, USA.
- Third SYS-CON Web Services Edge West. Amazon.com CTO to Deliver Opening Keynote.
- Conference website
- Conference at a glance
- Keynote addresses
SpeechTEK 2003. September 29 - October 2, 2003. New York Marriott Marquis, New York, NY, USA.
- "The world's largest gathering of organizations changing communications with speech technology."
- Conference website
- Program
DC-2003. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Annual Conference. "Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice: Metadata Research and Applications." September 29, 2003 - October 2, 2003. Seattle, Washington, USA.
- "a forum for intensive interaction with researchers, practitioners and decision makers concerned with advances in metadata for resource discovery, retrieval, management and use"
- Conference website
- Call for papers
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Washington Area SGML/XML Users Group XML Authoring/Editing Forum. September 29, 2003. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Virginia, USA.
- Hosted by The Federal Government XML Working Group, CMS Watch, and the Washington DC Area XML Users Group, Industry Advisory Council. Vendors include: Altova, Arbortext, Corel, Crane Softwrights Ltd, Deque, DMSI, i4i, Smartdraw, Xcential, XML Cities, XML Professionals, X.Systems. Inc.
- Forum website
- Registration
- Vendors
W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets. September 24 - 26, 2003. Santa Clara, California, USA.
- Purpose: "... to study methods to compress XML documents, comparing Infoset-level representations with other methods, in order to determine whether a W3C Working Group might be chartered to produce an interoperable specification for such a transmission format."
- Call for Participation
- Contact: Lee Quin (Workshop Chair)
- See: XML-DEV list thread
- XML Information Set. W3C Recommendation 24-October-2001.
ICWS-Europe 2003. The International Conference on Web Services - Europe 2003. "Web Services Architectures, Infrastructures and Applications." September 23 - 24, 2003. Erfurt, Germany.
- Conference website
- Call for papers [cache]
- Program (snapshot)
XML and Pharmaceutical Data Management Summit 2003. September 23 - 24, 2003. Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Meeting hosted by the Center for Pharmaceutical Training "examines the evolving standards being developed by CDISC and HL7 and their impact on data management processes being implemented in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries."
- Three Interactive Workshops: (A) Creating, Managing And Publishing Manufacturing Batch Records In Real-Time With XML; (B) Controlling Data Quality In Real-Time Applications; (C) Using Effective IT Management To Implement a Reliable Electronic Safety Reporting System.
- Announcement
- Agenda (snapshot)
- Contact: Doug Sohn
- Center for Pharmaceutical Training
Net.ObjectDays 2003 (NODe 2003). September 22 - 25, 2003. Messekongresszentrum (Fair and Conference Center), Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany.
- Held as part of the Fourth Annual International Conference on Object-Oriented and Internet-based Technologies, Concepts, and Applications for a Networked World
- Conference website
- Call for papers [cache]
- See: NODe 2002 main page and program.
Center for Information-Development Management Fifth Annual Best Practices Conference. September 22 - 24, 2003. Edgewater Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA.
2003 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM 2003). September 22, 2003. Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- Held in conjunction with the 14th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 7th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD)
- Topics: machine learning and natural language; learning to annotate documents; ontology learning; information retrieval and learning; information integration from textual and multimedia resources; relevant aspects of human-computer interaction and semi-supervised learning.
- Conference website
- Email contact: Fabio Ciravegna
EDOC 2003. Seventh IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference. September 16 - 19, 2003. Brisbane, Australia.
- Sponsors: IEEE and CRC for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC)
- Topics include use and development of enterprise and integration standards: ODP Enterprise Language, OMG's MDA, ebXML, UML 2.0, EDOC profile for UML, W3C Web Services.
- Conference website
- Conference program
- Call for Contributions. [PDF, cache]
- Past EDOC Conferences
Inaugural EPC Executive Symposium. September 15 - 17, 2003. McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, USA.
- "The Symposium will formally launch the first platform of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Network developed by the Auto-ID Center. Vendors to provide information on compliant products: EPC Integration and Installation, Agile Readers, Active and Passive RFID Tags, EPC Middleware, Radio Frequency Terminal Networks, Real-Time Inventory Event Databases, Supply Chain Event Management, Warehouse Management Systems, Enterprise Data Repositories, Data Synchronization, and PML Servers."
- Symposium website
- Program Overview
- Program snapshot (text)
- Auto-ID Center
- "Physical Markup Language (PML) for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)."
Software Development 2003 East. September 15 - 19, 2003. Sheraton Boston, Boston, MA, USA.
ACM MobiCom 2003. Ninth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. September 14 - 19, 2003. Westin Horton Plaza Hotel, San Diego, California, USA.
Integrate 2003. September 9 - 10, 2003. Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center Boston, Boston, MA, USA.
- Third event in a series, hosted by the Object Management Group (OMG). "Focus on integration technologies common to enterprise needs: Web Services, XML/SOAP, C#/.Net, Java, UML, componentware, distributed objects, and CORBA"
- Conference website
- Program. [cache]
- OMG website
W3C Event on P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages. September 09, 2003. IBM Center, Sydney, Australia.
- Topics: Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) v1.1, P3P Preference Exchange Language 1.0 (APPEL), and Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language (EPAL)
- Held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners
- Event website
- IBM Releases Updated Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language (EPAL) Specification."
Seybold San Francisco 2003. September 8 - 12, 2003. Moscone Center West, San Francisco, California, USA.
- Conference website
- Conference at a glance
- "Seybold San Francisco Transformed: Ten Key Conferences Include Enterprise Publishing and Digital Media."
- "Seybold Seminars, Publications and Consulting Announces New Mega-Event in San Francisco. Seybold San Francisco is Reborn at Moscone West. Nine Focused Channels Cover the Breadth of Publishing Today."
XML Database Symposium (XSym 2003). September 8, 2003. The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- Held in conjunction with VLDB 2003. The symposium "builds upon the success of several previous XML, Web and Database-related workshop held at CAiSE 2002, EDBT 2002, NODe 2002 and VLDB 2002."
- General Chair: Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM (France). Co-Chairs: Michael Rys, Microsoft (USA) and Akmal B. Chaudhri, IBM developerWorks (USA)
- Symposium website [CFP, cache]
- Symposium program
- "XML and Databases" - Topic document.
DBPL 2003. Ninth International Conference on Data Base Programming Languages. September 6 - 8, 2003. Potsdam, Germany.
The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop. "In Practice, Good Practice: the Future of Open Archives." September 4 - 5, 2003. UKOLN, University of Bath, UK.
- "A particular theme of the workshop will be the use of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting [OAI-PMH] in the area of Cultural Heritage..."
- Conference website
- Call for participation
- Open Archives Initiative
- UKOLN, University of Bath
24th Internationalization and Unicode Conference. "Unicode, Internationalization and the Web: Powering Global Business." September 3 - 5, 2003. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
First International Mobile IPR Workshop. Rights Management of Information Products on the Mobile Internet. August 27 - 28, 2003. Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT), Helsinki, Finland.
- Organized by the MobileIPR Research Project at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT). Keynote by Professor Hal Varian from UC Berkeley, USA.
- Workshop website
- Submission guidelines
- Call for papers (cache)
- "XML and Digital Rights Management (DRM)" - Topic document.
HyperText '03. The Fourteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. August 26 - 30, 2003. Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
- "Hosted by the School of Computer Science & Information Technology at the University of Nottingham... will explore the many dimensions of linking information for human communication, whether in literary texts, semantic knowledge bases, multimedia presentations, web sites, documents, films or multimedia databases..."
- Conference website
- Call for papers
- Accepted papers
- See: HyperText 2002
KDD-2003. Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. August 24 - 27, 2003. Hilton Washington and Towers, Washington, DC, USA.
First Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) Conference. "Industry Trends Toward Automated Data Integration." August 19, 2003. Whitaker Hall, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- "The objective of the UDEF is to provide a means of real-time identification for semantic equivalency, as an attribute to data elements within e-business document and integration formats."
- Conference description
- Agenda
- UDEF website
ECDL 2003. Seventh European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. August 17 - 22, 2003. Britannia Hotel, Trondheim, Norway.
- "... forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. ECDL 2003 is continuing the tradition already established by the previous conferences in meeting the needs of a large and diverse constituency, which includes practitioners, researchers, educators, policy makers and users..."
- Conference website
- Program listing
- NKOS Workshop at ECDL 2003. Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS): Evolving Standards. August 21, 2003.
- See: ECDL 2003
XML Web Services One Boston. "Solutions for Practical XML Web Services Development." August 12 - 15, 2003. World Trade Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Internet Accessible Mathematical Computation 2003 Workshop (IAMC 2003). August 07, 2003. Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- Held in conjunction with ISSAC 2003 (International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation).
- Workshop website
- IAMC website. Internet Accessible Mathematical Computation.
2003 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. August 4 - 7, 2003. The Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- "the world's largest and most comprehensive event focused exclusively on Linux and open source solutions..."
- Conference website
- Conference Brochure
- Conference Program
- Conference Sessions
Extreme Markup Languages 2003. August 4 - 8, 2003. Hilton Hotel, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- "Extreme Topics Presented at Extreme Markup Languages Conference 2003." News item 2003-07-16.
- Schedule-at-a-Glance
- Conference program
- [Preliminary] Proceedings for Extreme Markup Languages 2003
- Call for participation
- Conference information from Mulberry Technologies
- Details on papers and proposals, peer reviews, deadlines
- Conference information from IDEAlliance
- See Extreme 2002 Conference references
Open Publish 2003. Third Annual Conference for Standards and Process in Publishing. July 28 -31, 2003. Star City Casino, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia.
- Presented by Allette Systems (Australia) Pty Ltd in association with IDEAlliance
- Conference website
- Program Brochure
- View program online
- General information
- Call for papers
- Open Publish 2002
Oxford CSW XML Summer School 2003. Fourth Annual Event. July 27 - 31, 2003. Wadham College, Oxford, UK.
- "Four-day residential course, the fourth annual event held by CSW, which brings together delegates from across Europe and the USA to learn and gain practical experience of XML and related technologies."
- Conference web site
- Programme
- Four tracks: Healthcare Track, Hands-on Introduction to XML, Seminar Track, and Expert Forum Track.
- Featured Instructors: Kal Ahmed, Bob DuCharme, John Chelsom, Peter Flynn, Eve Maler, Jeni Tennison, and Lauren Wood
- Contact: Kerry Poulter (CSW), or summer.school@csw.co.uk
- CSW Group
- See: Oxford XML Summer School 2002
First European Workshop on Object Orientation and Web Service (EOOWS). July 21 - 25, 2003. Darmstadt, Germany.
- Covering "... the relation between Web Services and object orientation. Such relation can be explored from different perspectives, ranging from system modelling and engineering to system development, management, maintenance, and evolution. Aspects of particular interest are the modularisation of a system into components and the (possibly cross-domain) composition and orchestration of different modules..."
- Workshop website
- Program
- Contact: Giacomo Piccinelli.
Twenty-Second ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. PODC 2003. July 13 - 16, 2003. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- "...focuses on research in the theory, design, specification or implementation of distributed systems. PODC is sponsored by SIGACT and SIGOPS... is in 2003 supported by generous contributions by Microsoft Corporation and Sun Microsystems, Inc."
- Conference website
- Accepted papers
- Call for papers [cache]
- Security in Distributed Computing Special Track
SVG Open 2003. July 13 - 18, 2003. Second Annual Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics. Westin Bayshore Resort and Marina, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- "Conference on Interactive Vector-based Webgraphics, Online GIS and Webmapping."
- "SchemaSoft and W3C to Host SVG Open Conference in July 2003."
- Conference website
- SVG Open 2003 Conference Keynotes
- Proceedings
- "SVG: A Sure Bet." By Paul Prescod. From XML.com. "In his SVG Open keynote, Paul Prescod forecasts SVG's ultimate ubiquity."
- Registration
- See SVG Open / Carto.net Developers Conference 2002
Fifty-Seventh (57th) IETF Meeting. July 13 - 18, 2003. Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Burton Catalyst Conference North America 2003. July 9 - 11, 2003. San Francisco, California, USA.
O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (OSCON) 2003. "Extend and Embrace." July 7 - 11, 2003. Portland Marriot Downtown, Portland, Oregon, USA.
- OSCON 2003 Announcement
- Conference website
- Sessions and Events - Grid View
- Conference Speakers
- Description of Sessions
- Tutorials
- Call for participation
- Suggestions for panel sessions: send email to oscon-idea@oreilly.com
- Presentations from OSCON 2002
Petroleum Industry Data Exchange (PIDX) Europe Meeting 2003. July 3, 2003. Paris, France.
- Website information
- Earlier IDX events
- "Petroleum Industry Data Exchange (PIDX) XML Transaction Standards."
- Contact: Richard Wheeler, PIDX Europe Chair
The LISA Forum Europe. June 30 - July 3, 2003. Radisson Edwardian Heathrow, London, UK.
- "a focus on increasing global ROI through the successful implementation of global content management technologies and processes"
- Forum website
- Workshops
- Forum Agenda
- "RWS Group Co-sponsors LISA Forum Europe 2003. RWS Expert Localization Engineer Yves Savourel Presents XML and Localization Workshop."
- LISA (Localization Industry Standards Association)
ELPUB 2003. ICCC/IFIP Seventh International Conference on Electronic Publishing. June 25 - 28, 2003. University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal.
- "The objective of ELPUB2003 is to bring together researchers, managers, developers, and users working on the issues related to electronic publishing for public, scientific and commercial applications.
- Sponsored by International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and the International Council for Computer Communication (ICCC)
- Conference website
- Call for Papers
- Programme
- See: elpub 2002 website
IEEE Conference on E-Commerce (CEC 2003). June 24 - 27, 2003. Newport Beach, California, USA.
- CEC was formerly WECWIS (International Workshop on E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems)
- Conference website
- Call for papers
- Program
- IEEE CEC 2003 Call For Papers [snapshot]
- IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Electronic Commerce
- See TOC for Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002)
- See: WECWIS 2002
The Eighth Global Grid Forum (GGF8). "Building Grids: Obstacles and Opportunities." June 24 - 27, 2003. Seattle, WA, USA.
The First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2003). June 23 - 26, 2003. Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
24th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets. June 23 - 27, 2003. Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Open Publish 2003. June 23 - 25, 2003, Sheraton Society Hill Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
W3C Workshop on the Long Term Future of P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages. June 18 - 20, 2003. Multimedia Campus Kiel, Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein), Germany.
- Hosted by Independent Center for Privacy Protection.
- Multimedia Campus Kiel (International Graduate School of Digital Media and Management) is the competence center for Multimedia in Schleswig-Holstein.
- Privacy Workshop main reference page
- "Call for Participation in W3C P3P and Enterprise Privacy Policy Workshop." News item 2003-04-30.
- Call For Participation. W3C website.
- Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language (EPAL)
- W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Project
EEMA 2003. EEMA Sixteenth Annual Conference. "Management and Compatibility of Web Services: The Impact on Your Business." June 16 - 18, 2002. Prague, Czech Republic.
WebDB 2003. Sixth International Workshop on The Web and Databases. June 12 - 13, 2003. San Diego, California, USA.
2003 JavaOne Conference. June 10 - 13, 2003. Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
PODS 2003 Conference. 22nd ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems. June 9 - 12, 2003. Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, California, USA.
- "Will be held in San Diego in conjunction with the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), and as part of the Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC 2003).
- Conference website
- Call for papers
- Accepted papers
- Program Chair: Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University & INRIA)
- See PODS 2002 Conference
SACMAT 2003. Eighth ACM Symposium On Access Control Models and Technologies. June 2 - 3, 2003. Villa Gallia, Como, Italy.
- Co-located with Policy 2003: 4th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, June 4-6, 2003.
- Conference website
- Call for papers
- Sacmat 2003 Accepted papers
WinWriters Online Help Conference Europe 2003. "The Latest in Software User Assistance." June 1 - 3, 2003. Novotel London West, London, UK.
- Topics: Single Sourcing, Web-based Help, Emerging Technologies, Information Design, Authoring Tools. The essential XML building blocks and their inter-relationships; how single-source layouts and batch processing can save you time with RoboHelp X3; how XML DocBook simplifies the publishing of content in different formats.
- Conference website
- Speakers
ALLC/ACH 2003. Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. "Web X: A Decade of the World Wide Web." May 29 - June 2, 2003. The Georgia Center for Continuing Education, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia USA.
The Third ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2003). May 27 - 31, 2003. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
- "... a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues... including new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all types of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; digital preservation and archiving; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing"
- Conference website
- Conference papers
- Call or participation [cache]
- Table of Contents for the Proceedings of the Third ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
- "Report on the Third ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)." By Michael Nelson. In D-Lib Magazine Volume 9, Number 7/8 (July/August 2003).
- JCDL Home Page
- See: JCDL 2002
UCC U Connect Conference. May 21 - 23, 2003. Walt Disney World's Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando, FL, USA.
- "2005 Sunrise Countdown, EAN-UCC XML Schemas, RSS and Composite Symbology, Global Solution Interoperability Testing, Coupon Re-Engineering, Global Standards Management Process..."
- Announcement 2002-01-08
- Conference website
- U-Connect Session Matrix
- Uniform Code Council
- Uniform Code Council (UCC) XML Program
Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003). May 20 - 24, 2003. Budapest, Hungary.
- Organized by The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) and the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI)
- Developer's Day Tracks for: Semantic Web, Web Graphics, Security, and XML Processing Pipeline
- Conference website
- Call for Papers
- Program
- Previous WWW Conferences
Society for Technical Communication (STC) 50th Annual Conference. May 18 - 21, 2003. Wyndham Anatole Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA.
- Conference for technical writers, usability specialists, Web designers, and others involved in technical communication. Seminar topics include manual production, online help design, and internationalization of communication products.
- Conference website
- Presenters' information
XML for Analysis (XMLA) Interoperability Event. May 13, 2003. San Francisco, CA, USA.
- "20 member companies of the XML for Analysis (XMLA) Council will participate in the worlds first public XMLA interoperability demonstration at The Data Warehouse Institute World Conference in San Francisco"
- Event description [cache]
- See: "XML for Analysis."
8th Annual Arbortext User's Group International Conference. AUGI 2003. May 7 - 9, 2003. Adam's Mark Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
XML Europe 2003 Conference & Exposition. "Powering the Information Society." May 5 - 8, 2003. Hilton London Metropole, London, UK.
- Conference Chair: Edd Dumbill, Managing Editor, XML.com
- Conference website
- Call for participation. Call for Papers through 2002-12-20.
- Conference description
- Schedule-at-a-Glance
- Program
- Tutorials
- XML Europe 2003 Keynote Presentations
- "Reports from XML Europe 2003." By Uche Ogbuji and Simon St. Laurent.
- See: XML Europe 2002
ebXML Showcase. May 5 - 6, 2003. Hilton London Metropole, London, UK.
- OASIS and UN/CEFACT will co-sponsor >ebXML Showcase, a special two-day event at XML Europe 2003.
- Live Demos of ebXML Messaging Services Protocol at XML Europe 2003.
- Announcement
- OASIS and UN/CEFACT Host ebXML Showcase.
- Conference website
- Call for participation
Second Annual PKI Research Workshop. April 28 - 29, 2003. NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
- Jointly sponsored by NIH, NIST, and Internet2, in cooperation with USENIX, the PKI Forum and IFIP TC8.
- Workshop website
- Announcement
- Proceedings of the First PKI Research Workshop (April 2002)
DAMA International Symposium & Wilshire Meta-Data Conference. The 7th Annual Wilshire Meta-Data Conference and the 15th Annual DAMA International Symposium. April 27 - May 1, 2003. Renaissance Orlando Resort at Seaworld, Orlando, Florida, USA.
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2003. April 22 - 25, 2003. Westin Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
- Tracks: Rich Internet Applications, Social Software, Untethered, Nanotechnology and Hardware.
- Conference website
- Sessions and Events
- Speaker list
RSA Conference 2003. April 13 - 17, 2003. Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA.
- "In its twelfth year as the industry's foremost security conference, the RSA Conference will feature more than 200 class sessions on the development and implementation of secure applications and devices, hacks and threats, new products and other related topics."
- Conference website
- Conference brochure
German Topic Maps Congress. "XML Topic Maps." April 10, 2003. Darmstadt, Germany.
- First German Topic Maps Congress, organized by ZGDV and sponsored by Empolis.
- Announcement
- Conference website
- Program
VoiceXML Users Group Spring Meeting 2003. March 31 - April 03, 2003. Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California, USA.
- Held in conjunction with the AVIOS 2003 Speech Developers Conference and Expo
- Announcement 2003-01-30
- Call for Participation
- AVIOS Speech Developers Conference and SpeechTEK Spring Expo 2003
- Contact: brett.mcdowell@ieee-isto.org
- "VoiceXML Forum"
IUC 23. Twenty-third International Unicode Conference. "Unicode, Internationalization and the Web: The Global Connection." March 24 - 28, 2003. Marriott Prague Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic.
First OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2003). March 20 - 21, 2003. Philosophenturm, University of Hamburg, Germany.
- Meet the community, users, and community sponsors at the first OpenOffice.org Conference. Confirmed speakers: Bruce Perens, Miguel de Icaza, Curtis Sasaki. Event co-sponsored by OASIS.
- Conference held immediately following CeBIT
- Conference website
- Call for Participation
- Conference schedule
- Registration
- "OpenOffice.org XML File Format."
First Asian FIX Conference. "The Life Cycle of a Trade: Achieving a Seamless Front to Back Process Utilising FIX and STP." March 20, 2003. Conrad Hotel, Hong Kong.
- Hosted by the Asian Pacific FIX (Financial Information eXchange) Committee
- Conference website
- Conference agenda
- "Financial Information Exchange Protocol (FIX)"
Documation France 2003. March 17 - 19, 2003. Le hall Albinoni du CNIT, CNIT, Paris La Défense, France.
- Conference website
- Program in PDF. [source]
- Sessions March 18, March 19.
Conference on Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU. March. 17 - 19, 2003. Cafritz Conference Center, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
- Presented by The Center for Open Source in Government. On Citizen-Centric eGovernment, Open Source XML Solutions, Open Source and Open Standards, Open Source and Enterprise Architecture, etc.
- Conference website
- Conference agenda
- Call for papers
- Email contact: conference@eGovOS.org
Cisco Learning Institute / OpenVES Spring 2003 Open eLearning Conference. March 16 - 19, 2003. Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
- PK12 eLearning Conference hosted by Cisco Learning Institute (CLI). Featuring the [US] National eLearning Infrastructure Initiative (NEII).
- Organized by OpenVES
- See: OpenVES.org Gateway
UN/CEFACT Forum 2003. March 10 - 14, 2003. Hilton San Diego Mission Valley, San Diego, CA, USA.
- "UN/CEFACT's new group structure enables all UN/CEFACT subgroups to meet concurrently for five days at the same location twice a year. Attendees have the opportunity to attend more than 32 breakout sessions..."
- Forum Venue
- Previous UN/CEFACT meetings
13th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering. RIDE 2003. "Multi-lingual Information Management." March 10 - 11, 2003. Hyderabad, India.
- Held in conjunction with ICDE 2003
- Workshop website
- See RIDE-EC 2002
19th International Conference on Data Engineering. ICDE 2003. March 5 - 8, 2003. Bangalore, India.
- Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
- Conference website
- Call for papers
- Conference schedule
- Acepted Research Papers. XML-related papers include: "Keyword Proximity Search on XML Graphs"; "Navigation- vs. Index-Based XML Multi-Query Processing"; "Propagating XML Constraints to Relations"; "XPath Query Evaluation: Improving Time and Space Efficiency"; "XR-Tree: Indexing XML Data for Efficient Structural Join"; "Structural Join Order Selection for XML Query Optimization"; "X-Diff: An Effective Change Detection Algorithm for XML Documents"; "Streaming XPath Processing with Forward and Backward Axes"; "A Framework for the Selective Dissemination of XML Documents based on Inferred User Profiles"; "PXML: A Probabilistic Semistructured Data Model and Algebra."
- Associated Workshop on Bioinformatics. March 4, 2003.
- See ICDE 2002
W3C Third Annual Technical Plenary and WG Meeting Event. March 3 - 7, 2003. Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- "More than 25 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Mid-week, many of the 400+ participants attend the all day public plenary. Minutes will be published."
- Meeting website
- Meeting Agenda
XML Web Services One 2003. March 3 - 6, 2003. Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
- SIGS/101 Conference, presented by Application Development Trends
- Conference website
- Conference brochure [cache]
- Conference at a glance
LISA 45th International Conference. LISA Global Strategies Summit USA. "Understanding Customer Requirements." March 3 - 6, 2003. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Foster City, California, USA.
BEA eWorld 2003 - Converge. March 2 - 5, 2003. Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center, Orlando, FL, USA.
- Keynote speakers include Alfred S. Chuang, Carly S. Fiorina, John E. Davies, Scott Dietzen, Ph.D, Adam Bosworth, and John Underkoffler. "Over 3,000 attendees and 140 exhibitors are expected to attend..."
- Announcement: "BEA to Host 8th Annual eWorld Technology Conference March 2-5, 2003."
- Conference website
- Speakers
- Highlights from BEA eWorld 2002
Berkeley DRM Conference. February 27 - March 01, 2003. The Bancroft Hotel, Bancroft Avenue, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Hosted by The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT) and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ)
- Conference website
- Announcement
- About the conference
- Schedule
- List of speakers
- "Experts: Copyright Law Hurts Technology." By Robert Lemos. In CNET News.com (March 01, 2003).
W3C XForms Working Group Implementation Workshop. February 27 - 28, 2003. Novell Office, Waltham, MA, USA.
- "The goal of this Workshop is to exchange implementation experiences, hints and techniques, to compare XForms functionality, and discuss issues arising from the candidate recommendation..."
- Workshop website
- XForms 1.0, W3C Candidate Recommendation 12-November-2002
- XForms - The Next Generation of Web Forms
XML for Financial Services. "Maximizing Interoperability, Efficiency & Cost Savings Through Integrated XML-Based Web Services." February 27 - 28, 2003. Doubletree Guest Suites, New York City, NY, USA.
- "... emerging XML industry standards, including XBRL, RIXML, and IFX will facilitate efficient exchanges of financial information"
- Conference website
- Workshops
EIDX/CompTIA Conference Winter 2003. February 10 - 13, 2003. Silicon Valley, California, USA.
- Hosted by CompTIA/EIDX and OAGI
- Conference website
- Conference sessions
- Agenda
- Co-located with Open Applications Group Meeting
- EIDX Conference Presentations
- See: Autumn 2002 Joint CompTIA/EIDX and RosettaNet Conference
TDWI World Conference Winter 2003. February 9 - 14, 2003. New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans, LA, USA.
- From the Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), a "premier provider of in-depth, high-quality education and training in the business intelligence and data warehousing industry"
- Conference website
- Schedule overview
- Course descriptions
O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference 2003. "Practical Tools For Innovation." February 3 - 6, 2003. The Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA, USA.
Sync Congress 2003. "Maximising Service Revenue with Mobile Data Device Synchronisation." January 28 - 29, 2003, Earls Court Conference Centre, London, UK.
- "... the only event to be fully endorsed by the SyncML working group part of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)"
- Congress website
- Program
- See: "The SyncML Initiative."
OMG Integrate 2003. January 28 - 29, 2003. Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, Burlingame, CA, USA.
- "... will focus on the business and technical aspects of application integration using many different infrastructure standards -- OMG's own and other key industry standards including Web Services, XML/SOAP, C#/.Net, Java, CORBA"
- Announcement 2002-12-03
- Event website
- Program At-at-Glance
- Program listing
- Object Management Group (OMG) website