Overview

This document provides information about selected conferences and workshops scheduled to be held in 2005. See the more complete conference listing for earlier years.

Listing of Conferences for 2005

• XML 2005 Conference and Exposition 2005. "Syntax to Semantics." November 14 - 18, 2005. Hilton Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, GA, USA.

  • Produced by IDEAlliance. Conference Chair: Lauren Wood (Sun Microsystems, Inc). "Management and technical professionals from business, government, and other organizations gather to review the latest technologies, applications, and services that exist for the XML community."
  • Conference web site
  • Call for Participation
  • Schedule-at-a-Glance
  • Program detail
  • See XML 2004 Conference and Exposition

• W3C Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML). November 2 -3, 2005. IBM China Research Laboratory, Beijing, China.

  • Workshop to "discuss ways to improve rendering of non-English natural languages using the SSML W3C Recommendation which generates synthetic speech and controls pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate." Position papers due September 23, 2005.
  • Call for Participation
  • Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0. W3C Recommendation 7 September 2004.
  • W3C news item
  • W3C Workshops
  • Workshop Co-chairs: Jim Larson and Kazauyuki Ashimura
  • Local Contact: Zhi Wei (Jerry) Shuang

• DITA Europe Conference [2005]. November 2 - 3, 2005. NH Frankfurt Rhein-Main Hotel, Frankfurt, Germany.

  • CIDM and Trisoft sponsor this DITA Europe Conference on the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. DITA provides a standards-based approach for creating topic-based information and assembling topics into books or other electronic deliverables.
  • Conference web site
  • OASIS DITA TC
  • "Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA XML)"

• Standardization and the Law: Developing the Golden Mean for Global Trade. September 22 - 23, 2005. Bechtel Conference Center Encina Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

  • "Regional policies, competition law, intellectual property rights, and public good are all competing elements of global trade — elements that are out of balance. This conference will examine standards setting process and patent commitments; international competition issues in standards setting; Governments' response to standards, intellectual property, and competition conflicts; societal and economic implications of the international legal and standards issues; etc"
  • Hosted by Stanford Law School Program in Law Science and Technology, co-sponsored by Sun Microsystems.
  • Conference web site
  • "Recognizing the Procompetitive Potential of Royalty Discussions in Standard Setting." By Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras, U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Comments prepared for "Standardization and The Law: Developing the Golden Mean for Global Trade." [cache]
  • Conference agenda
  • Conference topics
  • Conference registration. $100 discount for OASIS members (Code: WO).
  • Email contact: tech@law.stanford.edu

• SIGDOC 2005: The Twenty-Third International Conference on Design of Communication. "Documenting and Designing for Pervasive Information." September 21 - 23, 2005, Coventry, UK.

  • "Documenting mobile, pervasive and component-based systems; Information design for delivery in a pervasive-computing environment."
  • Conference web site
  • Call for Papers
  • Conference program
  • DITA Workshop [Michael Priestley]
  • About SIGDOC

• IUC28: 28th Internationalization and Unicode Conference. "Unicode: Multilingual Challenges and Solutions for 2006. September 7 - 9, 2005. Hilton, Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA.

  • "The ideal place to interact and exchange ideas with others in the field of internationalization, including experts, implementers, clients and vendors." Hot 'Off the Presses Track' covering recent or imminent releases of Unicode 4.1; Unicode-enabled PHP; Microsoft's Longhorn, Internet Explorer, and .NET; Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) 1.3."
  • Conference web site
  • Conference program
  • About Unicode Conferences
  • Unicode standard
  • "XML and Unicode."

• SVG Open 2005. Fourth Annual Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics. August 15 - 18, 2005. Enschede, The Netherlands.

  • Conference web site
  • Conference Report. By Andreas Neumann, Olaf Schnabel and Juliana Williams.
  • The Future of SVG and the Web. Keynote by Kurt Cagle.
  • W3C SVG resources
  • W3C Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) - Local reference list.

• 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:
    • e-Government
    • Healthcare
    • News & Media
  • 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