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Cover Pages Newsletter
August 06, 2002
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Featured News Stories Selected Articles and Papers Selected from the Press Events Cover Pages Sponsors
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Recently featured news stories from the Cover Pages news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/news.html OR http://xml.coverpages.org/covernewsTOP.html
RosettaNet and Uniform Code Council Inc. (UCC) Announce Merger
A merger between RosettaNet and the UCC (Uniform Code Council) has been announced by the two entities as a strategic partnership which will advance B2B integration in the marketplace and help strengthen standards adoption across multiple industries. The UCC's XML-based business processes align with RosettaNet's strong business process standards development and global implementation strategy. RosettaNet will become a subsidiary of the UCC. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-08-05-a.html
W3C Publishes Working Draft on Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios
W3C's Web Services Architecture Working Group has published an initial Working Draft specification for 'Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios'. The document supplies a categorized collection of some forty (40) usage scenarios and use cases which illustrate the use of Web services, and which are used to generate requirements for the Web services architecture, as well as to evaluate existing technologies. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-08-02-b.html
Electronic Common Technical Document (eCTD) for Pharmaceutical Regulatory Information
The ICH Multi-disciplinary Group 2 (M2) Expert Working Group (EWG) is developing an XML-based specification governing electronic submission of pharmaceutical regulatory information. A version 1.0 XML DTD and version 2.0 Electronic Common Technical Document (eCTD) specification have been published. eCTD provides the ability to transfer the registration application electronically from industry to a regulatory authority. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-08-02-a.html
W3C Web Ontology Working Group Releases Working Drafts for OWL Semantic Markup Language
Three working drafts on 'OWL' have been published by the W3C's Web- Ontology Working Group (WebOnt). OWL is a semantic markup language for publishing and sharing ontologies on the Web. It is derived from the DAML+OIL Web Ontology Language and builds upon RDF. OWL facilitates greater machine readability of web content than XML, RDF, and RDF-S support by providing an additional vocabulary for term descriptions. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-07-31-c.html
IDEAlliance Announces XML Book Industry Transaction Standards Working Group (XBITS)
IDEAlliance has announced the formation of a standards working group called XBITS (XML Book Industry Transaction Standards) representing a group of major book publishers, printers, paper mills, and component vendors. The goal of XBITS is to design XML-based transactions to facilitate bi-directional electronic data exchanges within the book manufacturing supply chain through the application of the papiNet development process. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-07-31-b.html
ACM Workshop on XML Security
The 2002 ACM Workshop on XML Security will be held November 22, 2002 in Fairfax VA, USA. The workshop will address security problems faced by users developing XML-based applications, Web services, and security middleware for XML. Topics include specific security features (digital signatures, element-wise encryption, access control of XML documents) and XML-based infrastructure such as Web services and XML databases. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-07-31-a.html
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Selections of abstracted and annotated articles/clippings at: http://xml.coverpages.org/articles.html http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings.html
"Oracle Goes XML." By Timothy Dyck. In eWEEK (August 02, 2002). http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,431788,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#Oracle9i-XML
Core Range Algebra: Toward a Formal Model of Markup." By Gavin Nicol (Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.). Presented at the Extreme Markup Languages Conference 2002, Montreal. http://www.extrememarkup.com/extreme/2002/tuesday.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#NicolCoreRangeAlgebra
"RosettaNet Merges With UCC." By Heather Harreld. In InfoWorld (August 05, 2002). http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#UCC-Merger
"Office Gets Its XML Groove." By Mark Jones and Heather Harreld. In InfoWorld (August 02, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/08/05/020805hnofficetool.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#GrooveOffice
Extreme Papers on Multiple (Overlapping, Concurrent) Hierarchies. http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200208.html#clip2002-08-05-a
"Using XInclude." By Elliotte Rusty Harold. From XML.com. July 31, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/07/31/xinclude.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#XInclude
"Not My Type: Sizing Up W3C XML Schema Primitives." By Amelia Lewis. From XML.com. July 31, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/07/31/wxstypes.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#SchemaPrimitives
"XML to Relational Conversion using Theory of Regular Tree Grammars." By Murali Mani and Dongwon Lee. In Proceedings of the VLDB Workshop on Efficiency and Effectiveness of XML Tools, and Techniques (EEXTT), Hong Kong, China, August 2002. http://www.cobase.cs.ucla.edu/tech-docs/dongwon/eextt02.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#LeeManiRegularTreeGrammars
"NeT and CoT: Translating Relational Schemas to XML Schemas Using Semantic Constraints." By Dongwon Lee, Murali Mani, Frank Chiu, and Wesley. W. Chu. Paper prepared for VLDB 2002 (28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases). http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#ManiNET
"RELAX NG: The Power Is in the Patterns." By Tom Gaven. In XML Journal, Volume 3, Issue 7 (July 2002). http://www.sys-con.com/xml/articleprint.cfm?id=434 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#Gaven-RelaxNG
"The Next Generation Database - XDB." By Greg Mable. In XML Journal Volume 3, Issue 6 (June 2002). http://www.sys-con.com/xml/articleprint.cfm?id=421 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#MableXDBs
"Data Mining Standards Initiatives." By Robert L. Grossman, Mark F. Hornick, and Gregor Meyer. In Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 45, Issue 8 (August 2002), pages 59-61. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#DataMiningStandards
"Concepts and Requirements for XML Network Configuration." By Margaret Wasserman (Wind River). IETF Internet-Draft. Reference: 'draft-wasserman-xmlconf-req-00.txt'. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#WassermanNetworkConfiguration
"OASIS LegalXML Member Section Electronic Court Filing Technical Committee Draft." Electronic Court Filing Version 1.1. Proposed Standard. Version Date: 12-July-2002. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#ECF-200207
Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Transformation for the Semantic Web. KTSW 2002. Workshop W7 at the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 23-July-2002, Lyon, France. 121 pages. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~borys/events/ktsw2002.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#proceedingsKTSW2002
"W3C Hails Semantic Web, Web Services Usage Scenarios." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (July 31, 2002). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/31/020731hnw3c.xml http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200208.html#Krill-OWL
"Briefing Book: Inside UDDI." By Richard Karpinski. In InternetWeek (July 31, 2002). http://www.internetweek.com/webDev/INW20020731S0001 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200207.html#UDDI-BriefingBook
"SIL Three-letter Codes for Identifying Languages: Migrating From In-House Standard to Community Standard." By Gary F. Simons (SIL International). ISO Reference: ISO/TC 37/SC 2/WG 1 N 94. http://www.rtt.org/ISO/TC37/SC2/WG1/N-doc/N094.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200207.html#SimonsLREC2002
"OASIS Steps Up Web-Services Work." By [Seybold Staff]. In The Bulletin: Seybold News and Views On Electronic Publishing, Volume 7, Number 44 (July 31, 2002). http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200207.html#SeyboldBulletinOASIS
"Adventures in High-Performance XML Persistence, Part 1. A High-Performance TCL-scripted XSLT Engine." By Cameron Laird. From IBM developerWorks, XML Zone. July 2002. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-hipersis.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200207.html#Laird-TCL
Software to Convert Relational Databases to XML. http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200208.html#clip2002-08-03-b
Resource Model Composer from IBM alphaWorks. http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/remoco http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200208.html#clip2002-08-02-a
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"NACS Brings Convenience Stores to OASIS UBL Liaisons." http://xml.coverpages.org/NACS-UBL-Liaison.html
"The Mind Electric Announces Glue 3.0 Web Services Platform, Delivering 'the Power of Java, the Simplicity of .NET' to Enterprise Software Development." http://www.themindelectric.com/news/index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/press2002Q3.html##MindElectric
"Aspect Communications Announces First IP-based Self-Service with VXML. Aspect Continues to Prove Customer Service Benefits of Converged Network by Enabling New Types of Voice Self-Service Applications." http://xml.coverpages.org/AspectCommunications-VXML-20020731.html
"Vignette Joins Web Services Interoperability Organization. Vignette Supports Effort to Establish Greater Compatibility of Web Services Across Technologies and Applications." http://www.vignette.com/CDA/Site/0,2097,1-1-30-72-407-3694,00.html http://xml.coverpages.org/press2002Q3.html#VignetteJoinsWS-I
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Leveraging XML for Pharmaceutical R&D Information Exchange. November 18 - 19, 2002. The Ritz-Carlton, Tyson Corner, McLean, VA, USA. http://www.pharmedassociates.com/clinical.asp#p103 http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#PharmaExchange2002
W3C Workshop on Device Independent Authoring Techniques. September 25 - 26, 2002. SAP University, St. Leon-Rot [near Heidelberg], Germany. http://www.w3.org/2002/07/DIAT/diat-workshop-cfp.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#DeviceIndependentAuthoring2002
OASIS/W3C Forum on Security Standards for Web Services. August 26, 2002. With the XML Web Service One Conference, Boston, MA, USA. http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200207.html#clip2002-07-19-a http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#SecurityStandardsForum http://www.xmlconference.com/boston/key.asp
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