Date: 2003-11011 snapshot. From: http://www.idealliance.org/news-summit/agenda_nss.asp. See details at: "XML 2003 News Standards Summit Seeks Interoperability and Convergence." Meeting December 8, 2003.


                   N E W S   S T A N D A R D S   S U M M I T
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Sunday 7 December:

Evening            Organising Committee Dinner

Monday 8 December:

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                   Standards Session
                   Chaired by Stephane Guerillot, 
                   Director for Technical International Affairs, AFP;
                   IPTC Standards Committee Chair
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09:00-09:05  0:05  Introduction:
                   Stephane Guerillot,
                   Director for Technical International Affairs, AFP;
                   IPTC Standards Committee Chair

09:05-09:30  0:25  Keynote:
                   Chet Ensign, 
                   Director of Architecture & Development Services, 
                   LexisNexis

09:30-10:00  0:30  NewsML:
                   Laurent Le Meur, 
                   Technical Manager of Multimedia Development, AFP;
                   NewsML Working Party Chair

10:00-10:05  0:05  Short break

10:05-10:20  0:15  NITF:
                   Alan Karben, 
                   President, XML Team Solutions;
                   NITF Working Party Chair

10:20-10:30  0:10  SportsML and Other Payload MLs for News:
                   Alan Karben, 
                   President, XML Team Solutions;
                   SportsML Working Party Chair

10:30-11:00  0:30  Prism:
                   Ron Daniel,
                   Principal, Taxonomy Strategies;
                   PRISM Specification Editor

11:00-11:20  0:20  Long break, with refreshments

11:20-11:50  0:30  RSS:
                   Ben Hammersley,
                   Author of "Content Syndication with RSS"

11:50-12:20  0:30  Atom:
                   Sam Ruby, 
                   Senior Technical Staff Member, Emerging 
                   Technologies Group, IBM;
                   VP, Apache Software Foundation;

12:20-12:25  0:05  Short break

12:25-12:45  0:20  ICE:
                   Dianne Kennedy, 
                   VP Publishing Technologies, IDEAlliance;
                   Editor ICE 2.0 Specification

12:45-1:00   0:15  XMP:
                   Gunar Penikis, Product Manager, Creative 
                   Professional Products,  Adobe Systems Inc.

1:00-2:00    1:00  Lunch break

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                   User Requirements Session
                   Chaired by Linda Burman,
                   CEO, L. A. Burman Associates Inc.;
                   PRISM Working Group Chair and Founder
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2:00-2:15    0:15  Reuters:
                   David Schlesinger,
                   Global Managing Editor and Head of Editorial 
                   Operations

2:15-2:30    0:15  Dow Jones:
                   Ken Ficara, 
                   Director, Content and Information Strategy 

2:30-2:45    0:15  Time Inc:
                   Peter Meirs, 
                   Director of Alternative Media Technologies

2:45-2:50    0:05  Short break

2:50-3:05    0:15  Associated Press:
                   Geoff Haynes, 
                   Manager of Product Development, AP Digital;
                   IPTC Specialized Content Working Party Chair

3:05-3:20    0:15  Vodafone:
                   Dan Appelquist, 
                   Director of Content Operations

3:20-3:35    0:15  Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association
                   (Nihon Shinbun Kyokai):
                   Speaker's details to be confirmed

3:35-3:50    0:15  National Information Standards Organization:
                   Patricia R. Harris,
                   Executive Director

3:50-4:10    0:20  Long break, with refreshments

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                   Open Discussion Session
                   Chaired by Misha Wolf, 
                   Standards Manager, Content Architecture Group, 
                   Reuters
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4:10-5:00    0:50  What steps have to be taken to get the best of all
                   worlds for the sake of hassle free news exchange?

5:00-5:05    0:05  Short break

5:05-5:55    0:50  What steps have to be taken to get the best of all
                   worlds for the sake of hassle free news exchange?

5:55-6:00    0:05  Wrap up

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                   Other likely participants not listed above include:


                   -  Tim Bray, Founder and CTO, Antarctica Systems 
                      Inc.; Member of the W3C Technical Architecture 
                      Group

                   -  David Megginson, Principal, Megginson 
                      Technologies; NewsML Toolkit Author

                   -  Eric Miller, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead

                   -  Mark Walter Jr., Senior Editor/Lead Consultant, 
                      MediaLive International (Seybold Reports)
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Evening            (Private) Dinner:
                   How to move forward?