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December 24, 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
Open GIS Consortium Issues RFC for Web Coverage Service Implementation Specification.
OGC has published a Request for Comment on a proposal for technologies and needed interfaces required for OpenGIS Web Coverage Service (WCS) Implementation Specification. The specification explains how WCS serves to describe, request, and deliver multi-dimensional coverage data over the Internet. Unrendered geospatial information is needed for client-side rendering, multi-valued coverages, and as input into scientific models. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-12-24-a.html
US Library of Congress Releases Encoded Archival Description DTD Version 2002.
An Encoded Archival Description (EAD) DTD Version 2002 has been released by the US Library of Congress, including complete "Tag Library" documentation for application of the standard. The EAD DTD is used by digital libraries and archive centers to create machine- readable finding aids. These metadata records can be aggregated or federated for searching. The Version 2002 EAD DTD is designed to function as both an SGML and XML DTD. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-12-20-a.html
UN/CEFACT ebXML Core Components Technical Specification Approved for Implementation Verification.
UN/CEFACT has approved the "UN/CEFACT ebXML Core Components Technical Specification" v1.9 for Step 6 Implementation Verification. OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL), OAG, EAN-UCC, SWIFT, UN/CEFACT, ANSI ASC X12, and other standards organizations are using this new Core Components approach as the basis for building interoperable XML business standards. CCTS seeks to define a flexible and interoperable way of standardizing business semantics. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-12-19-a.html
Microsoft and IBM Publish Six New Web Services Security and Policy Specifications.
Six new Web services specifications aimed at advancing security capabilities and streamlining business policy for organizations implementing Web services have been published by Microsoft and IBM, together with authorship contributions from BEA, RSA, and SAP. This second-wave series of specifications defined in the Roadmap include WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Policy, WS- PolicyAttachment, and WS-PolicyAssertions. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-12-18-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
"DALF Guidelines for the Description and Encoding of Modern Correspondence Material." By Edward Vanhoutte & Ron Van den Branden. Version 1.0. Discussion Draft. Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie [Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies], Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature, Gent, Belgium. http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/dalfdoc/index.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#DALF
"Challenges and Solutions for Leveraging RIXML. Application of XAware Technology." XAware White Paper. December 17, 2002. 10 pages. http://www.xaware.com/rixml/RIXML_White_Paper_XAware.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#XAware
"E-Learning Lessons Learned. Standards Reduce Compatibility Problems." By Gail Repsher Emery. In Government Computer News Volume 21, Number 34 (December 16, 2002), pages 29-31. http://www.gcn.com/21_34/tech-report/20627-1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Emery
"Advanced Distributed Learning Emerging and Enabling Technologies for the Design of Learning Object Repositories Report." Version 1.0. By Dr. Thelma Looms (Principal Learning Technologies Architect, ADL) and Clark Christensen (Lead Software Engineer, ADL). Technical Repository Investigation Report. Released 2002-12-23. Completed November 26, 2002. 66 pages. http://xml.coverpages.org/ADLRepositoryTIR.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#ADLRepository
"Working Group Tests Tools for Web Services." By Patricia Daukantas. In Government Computer News Volume 21, Number 34 (December 16, 2002), pages 1, 9. Includes photo of Robert Haycock. http://www.gcn.com/21_34/news/20656-1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#DaukantasGOV
"XML Collaborator: XML Design Collaboration and Registry Software." White Paper from Blue Oxide Technologies, LLC. September 2002. 16 pages. See the preceding reference. http://www.blueoxide.com/files/xmlcollaborator_wp.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Collaborator
"JAXB Revisited." By Daniel F. Savarese. In Java Pro Magazine (February 2003). http://www.fawcette.com/javapro/2003_02/magazine/columns/proshop/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Savarese
"New WS-Security Extensions May Be Too Much, Too Soon." By Ray Wagner and Terry Hicks (Gartner). Gartner FirstTake. FT-19-0712. 20-December-2002. http://www4.gartner.com/resources/112200/112263/112263.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Gartner
"Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios." W3C Working Draft 20-December-2002. First public draft. Edited by Kentaroh Noji (IBM), Martin J. D|rst (W3C), Addison Phillips (webMethods), Takao Suzuki (Microsoft), and Tex Texin (XenCraft). http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-ws-i18n-scenarios-20021220/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#WS-I18N
"XML For The Masses: An Open Office XML File Format." By Daniel Vogelheim (Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems). Prepared for presentation at the IDEAlliance XML 2002 Conference, December 10, 2002. 18 pages. http://xml.coverpages.org/XMLForTheMasses.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Vogelheim
"In the Navy, XML is the Standard." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (December 19, 2002). http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,795440,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#TaftNAVY
"Universal Business Language (UBL): Realizing eBusiness XML." By Mark Crawford (Logistics Management Institute; Vice Chair, OASIS UBL TC; Editor, UN/CEFACT Core Components). From the Plenary Presentation at XML 2002. 60 pages. http://xml.coverpages.org/Crawford-UBL200212.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#CrawfordUBL
"Schema Rules for UBL... and Maybe for You." By Eve Maler (Sun Microsystems). Presented at the XML 2002 Conference. 12-December-2002. 46 pages (PDF from slides). http://xml.coverpages.org/MalerUBL2002e.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Maler
"W3C, Vendors Dust Down Over WS-Choreography?" By [Gavin Clarke]. In The Register (December 20, 2002). http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/28649.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#ClarkeBPEL
"Running Multiple XSLT Engines with Ant." By Anthony Coates. From XML.com December 11, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/11/ant-xml.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Coates
"A Python & XML Companion." By Uche Ogbuji. From XML.com December 11, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/11/py-xml.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#OgbujiPython
"Test Frameworks for W3C Technologies." By Dimitris Dimitriadis. From XML.com December 11, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/11/w3c-test.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Dimitriadis
"Automatic Numbering, Part Two." By Bob DuCharme. From XML.com December 11, 2002. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/11/autocount.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#DuCharmeN2
"The Role of XML in Content Management." By Lauren Wood. In The Gilbane Report, Volume 10, Number 8 (October 2002), pages 1-8. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Wood
"XPointer 'xpointer()' Scheme." W3C Working Draft 19-December-2002. Edited by Steven DeRose (Brown University Scholarly Technology Group; Bible Technologies Group), Eve Maler (Sun Microsystems), and Ron Daniel Jr. (Taxonomy Strategies). http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xptr-xpointer-20021219/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#XPointerWD
"Web Services Giants Propose Specifications For Security, Policy." By Mitch Wagner. In InternetWeek TechWeb (December 18, 2002). http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW20021218S0005 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Wagner
"Using XSL Formatting Objects for Production-Quality Document Printing." By Kimber W. Eliot (ISOGEN International, LLC). Presentation given at the IDEAlliance XML 2002 Conference, Baltimore, December 2002. 16 pages. http://www.isogen.com/papers/production-quality-xsl-fo.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#KimberXSL-FO
"Navy XML Policy Signed." By Matthew French. In Federal Computer Week (December 18, 2002). http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/1216/web-xml-12-18-02.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#MFrench
"DON Policy on the Use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) of December 2002." December 13, 2002. 19 pages. http://xml.coverpages.org/DON-XMLPolicy200212.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#DON2002
"What Do You Get when You Cross Excel and XML?" By [Seybold Bulletin Staff]. In The Bulletin: Seybold News and Views On Electronic Publishing Volume 8, Numbers 12 & 13 (December 18, 2002). http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Celebrate
"Business Process with BPEL4WS: Learning BPEL4WS, Part 4. Creating Processes With the BPWS4J Editor." By Nirmal Mukhi (Software Engineer, IBM). From IBM developerWorks, Web services. November 2002. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-bpelcol4/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Mukhi
"Web Services Security: Moving Up the Stack. New Specifications Improve the WS-Security Model." By Maryann Hondo (Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM), David Melgar (Advisory software engineer, IBM), and Anthony Nadalin (Lead Architect, IBM). From IBM developerWorks, Web services. December 2002. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-secroad/ http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#IBM-SecStack
"Vendors Team Up On New Web Services Security Specs. Microsoft, IBM, BEA Among Authors of Proposed Standards." By Elizabeth Montalbano. In CRN (December 18, 2002). http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=39079 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Montalbano
"Group Forms to Study Tax-Related XML Standards." By Patricia Daukantas. In Government Computer News (December 18, 2002). http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20715-1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Daukantas
"Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP) Whitepaper." By Thomas Schaeck (IBM; Chair, OASIS WSRP Technical Committee). 22-September-2002. 18 pages. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wsrp/documents/wsrp_wp_09_22_2002.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Schaeck
"The RDDL Challenge." By Micah Dubinko. From XMLhack (December 17, 2002). http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1841 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Dubinko
"Supply Chain Management Use Case Model." Edited by Scott Anderson (Visuale, Inc.), Martin Chapman (Oracle), Marc Goodner (SAP), Paul Mackinaw (Accenture), and Rimas Rekasius (IBM). WS-I Working Group Draft. Date: 2002/11/10. 28 pages. http://www.ws-i.org/SampleApplications/SupplyChainManagement/2002-11/SCMUseCases-0.18-WGD.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#SCMUseCases
"Publish and Find UDDI tModels with JAXR and WSDL." By Frank Sommers. In JavaWorld (December 13, 2002). http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2002/jw-1213-webservices.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Sommers
"The XML Papers: Lessons on Applying Topic Maps." By Steve Pepper and Lars Marius Garshol (Ontopia). Presentation given at the IDEAlliance XML 2002 Conference, Baltimore, December 2002. http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml02/dx_xml02/papers/04-03-01/04-03-01.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#XMLPapersTM
"The Economics of the Topic Maps Reference Model." By Steven R. Newcomb (Coolheads Consulting). Presentation given at the IDEAlliance XML 2002 Conference, Baltimore, December 2002. http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml02/dx_xml02/papers/05-03-05/05-03-05.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Newcomb
"Topic Map Authoring With Reusable Ontologies and Automated Knowledge Mining." By Joshua Reynolds and W. Eliot Kimber (ISOGEN International, LLC). Presentation given at the IDEAlliance XML 2002 Conference, Baltimore, December 2002. http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml02/dx_xml02/papers/04-03-02/04-03-02.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Reynolds
"Using DAML+OIL as a Constraint Language for Topic Maps." By Eric Freese (LexisNexis). Presentation given at the IDEAlliance XML 2002 Conference, Baltimore, December 2002. http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml02/dx_xml02/papers/05-03-03/05-03-03.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Freese
"Topic Maps: Backbone of Content Intelligence." By Jean Delahousse (Mondeca). Presentation given at the IDEAlliance XML 2002 Conference, Baltimore, December 2002. http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml02/dx_xml02/papers/03-03-04/03-03-04.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Delahousse
"Articulating Conceptual Spaces Using the Topic Map Standard." By Helka Folch and Benoit Habert (Human-Machine Communication Department - LIMSI CNRS). Presentation given at the IDEAlliance XML 2002 Conference, Baltimore, December 2002. http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml02/dx_xml02/papers/06-03-02/06-03-02.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200212.html#Folch
"Versioning Machine Beta for TEI Parallel Segmentation Encoding of Textual Variants." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200212.html#clip2002-12-24-a
"XPath Visualizer for the Mozilla Browser." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200212.html#clip2002-12-21-b
"XPointerLib as an XML Linking Implementation." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200212.html#clip2002-12-21-a
"TagSoup Open Source SAX Parser for Nasty, Ugly HTML." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200212.html#clip2002-12-19-a
"Updated IBM Web Services Toolkit Supports WSRP Specification." http://xml.coverpages.org/clippings200212.html#clip2002-12-18-a
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"OGC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Web Coverage Service Specification." http://xml.coverpages.org/OGC-WebCoverageService.html
"XAware Announces RIXML Components for Financial Services Integration. Integration Building Blocks Enable Financial Services Firms, System Integrators and Software Vendors to Rapidly Adopt RIXML." http://xml.coverpages.org/RIXML-Components.html
"ADL Releases the Technical Repository Investigation Report." http://xml.coverpages.org/ADL-RepositoryReport.html
"Liquent Announces Availability of Two New eCTD Solutions for eCTD Submissions and a Free eCTD Viewer. Products Quickly and Efficiently Produce, Manage, and View Compliant eCTD Submissions." http://www.liquent.com/news_pr_newectdproducts.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/press2002Q4.html#Liquent
"BEA, IBM, Microsoft, RSA Security, SAP and VeriSign Deliver Advanced Specifications to Help Meet Security and Business Policy Needs of Companies Building and Implementing Web Services. New Group of Specifications to Build on Industry Work for Web Services." http://xml.coverpages.org/SecureWS20021218.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
HyperText '03. The Fourteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. August 26 - 30, 2003. Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. http://www.ht03.org/ http://www.ht03.org/cfp.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#ht2003
Open Publish 2003. Third Annual Conference for Standards and Process in Publishing. July 28 - 31, 2003. Star City Casino, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia. http://www.openpublish.com.au/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#OpenPublish2003
Twenty-Second ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. PODC 2003. July 13 - 16, 2003. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.podc.org/podc2003 http://www.podc.org/podc2003/cfp.html http://www.podc.org/podc2003/security-track-cfp.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#podc2003
The First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2003). June 23 - 26, 2003. Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://tab.computer.org/tfec/icws03 http://tab.computer.org/tfec/icws03/ICWS-03-CFP.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#icws03
Sync Congress 2003. "Maximising Service Revenue with Mobile Data Device Synchronisation." January 28 - 29, 2003, Earls Court Conference Centre, London, UK. http://www.ibctelecoms.com/sync http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#sync2003
Sixth International Open Forum on Metadata Registries. January 20 - 24, 2003. La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. http://metadata-stds.org/OpenForum2003/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#openForumMetadata2003 http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-05-02-b.html
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