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Cover Pages Newsletter
September 02, 2003
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CONTENTS
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 [Full abstract] http://xml.coverpages.org/covernewsTOP.html [Brief summary] http://xml.coverpages.org/covernews.xml [RSS]
W3C Device Independence Working Group Publishes Specs for a Universally Accessible Web.
The W3C Device Independence Working Group (DIWG) has released three specifications on D-I authoring, adaptation, and presentation of Web content. "Device Independence Principles" articulates a vision of the WG's core principles and goals. A revised draft on "Authoring Challenges" discusses authoring for multiple devices having different capabilities. The new "Glossary of Terms for Device Independence" defines terms used in other DIWG documents. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-02-a.html
BPMI.org Releases Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) Version 1.0.
The BPMI Notation Working Group has announced the release of a public draft for the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN Version 1.0). The objective of BPMN is to support process management by both technical users and business users by providing a notation that is intuitive to business users yet able to represent complex process semantics. BPMN allows different XML-based process languages (BPEL4WS, BPML) to be visualized using common elements. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-29-a.html
W3C Opens Public Discussion Forum on US Patent 5,838,906 and Eolas v. Microsoft.
W3C has published a report by Steven R. Bratt (W3C Chief Operating Officer) on the matter of US Patent 5,838,906 and the Eolas v. Microsoft lawsuit. The patent is described as applicable to Java applets, browser plug-ins, ActiveX components, Macromedia Flash, Windows Media Player, and related "embedded program objects." A new W3C 'public-web-plugins' list provides a public discussion forum for those concerned with recent court decisions on the patent. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-28-a.html
W3C CSS Working Group Publishes Three Cascading Style Sheets Working Drafts.
The W3C CSS Working Group has released new working drafts for the Cascading Style Sheets language which is playing an increasingly important role in styling many kinds of XML documents. The "Presentation Levels" draft specifies how integer values attached document elements can be used to support slideshows and outlines; "CSS3 Module: Syntax" describes CSS parsing rules and linking; "CSS Print Profile" defines CSS-based layout for mobile devices. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-27-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
"Opera, Mozilla Release New Browser Betas." By John Borland. In CNET News.com (August 28, 2003). The Mozilla project and Opera Software, two of the last remaining serious Web browser rivals to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, each released new browser versions this week, promising faster and more stable surfing. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5069448.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#Opera
"Macromedia Tools Move Beyond Animation. New Forms Environment Turns Flash from Animation Engine to Business Building Block." By Charles Babcock. In InformationWeek (August 27, 2003). The change to a forms environment is one of many changes to Flash MX and other elements of the Macromedia Web-site product line introduced this week. Dreamweaver MX 2004 now supports Cascading Style Sheets and includes MX Elements for HTML. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=14100035 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#BabcockMX
"Typeless Schemas and Services." By Rich Salz. In O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com/ (September 02, 2003). Top web service thinkers are moving to a more document-centric approach. The author looks at what Noah Mendelsohn, Tim Ewald, and Don Box have been saying about W3C XML Schema and web services. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/09/02/typeless.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#SalzSchemas
"What Interoperability Isn't." By Will Provost. In O'Reilly WebServices.xml.com/ (September 02, 2003). Will Provost examines apparent interoperability problems in web services. He finds that many issues are not fundamentally about interoperability over message content: some are more traditional enterprise integration problems, some are merely conventional. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/09/02/interop.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#ProvostInterop
"Documentum Debuts AIS. Documentum Improves Authoring-Tool Integration. [Content Management.]" By Mark Walter. In The Seybold Report: Analyzing Publishing Technologies Volume 3, Number 10 (August 29, 2003). Documentum's Authoring Integration Services is a group of APIs that make it easy to tie XPress, InDesign and dozens of other tools into the Documentum repository. In effect, AIS confers first- class status on desktop authoring programs. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#WalterDocumentum
"Army Opens Up to Interoperability." By Dawn S. Onley. In Government Computer News (September 01, 2003). Lt. Gen. Steven W. Boutelle recently became a three-star general and is now the Army's CIO, managing command, control, communications and computers programs In this article he discusses his goals of bolstering bandwidth and improving the networks that connect Army systems, and explains what the Army doing to promote interoperability. http://www.gcn.com/22_25/interview/23315-1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#OnleyArmy
"A Compact Syntax for W3C XML Schema." By Erik Wilde. From XML.com (August 27, 2003). The author introduces a compact alternative syntax for W3C XML Schema, presenting a Java implementation for converting the compact syntax to the XML syntax and vice versa. XML Schema Compact Syntax (XSCS) reuses well known syntactic constructs from DTDs. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/27/xscs.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#WildeXSCS
"A Report From Extreme Markup Languages 2003." By James Mason. From XML.com (August 27, 2003). Jim Mason, one of the co-chairs of the Extreme Markup Languages conference, reports on this recent annual gathering of deeply involved XML enthuasiasts and innovators. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/27/extreme.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#MasonExtreme
"XML Exposes Rich Network Data. Network, Systems Management Vendors Tackle Web Services Limitations." By Scott Tyler Shafer. In InfoWorld (September 01, 2003). Networking and systems management vendors are now paving the way for companies to discover and manage Web Services at run time. Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM are among the vendors looking to speed the adoption of Web services architectures by building additional capabilities into existing systems management platforms. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/01/34NNxml_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#Shafer
"New Office Locks Down Documents." By David Becker. In CNET News.com (September 02, 2003). As digital media publishers scramble to devise a foolproof method of copy protection, Microsoft is ready to push digital rights management into a whole new arena -- your desktop. Office 2003 for the first time will include tools for restricting access to documents created with the software. http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5069246.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#BeckerLockDown
"Location Object Authorization Policies." By Hannes Tschofenig (Siemens AG), Jorge R. Cuellar (Siemens AG), John B. Morris, Jr (Director, Internet Standards, Technology & Policy Project, Center for Democracy and Technology), Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, Department of Computer Science), and James M. Polk (Cisco Systems). IETF GEOPRIV Working Group, Internet Draft. Reference: 'draft- tschofenig-geopriv-authz-00.txt'. August 2003, expires: February 2004. 18 pages. This document describes a set of policy rules to satisfy key elements of the "Core Privacy Protections for Geopriv Location Object" draft. The draft uses XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP). http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-tschofenig-geopriv-authz-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#TschofenigAuthz
"A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object Format." By Jon Peterson (NeuStar, Inc). IETF GEOPRIV Working Group, Internet Draft. Reference: 'draft-peterson-geopriv-pidf-lo-01'. September 2, 2003, expires March 2, 2004. 16 pages. This document describes an object format for carrying geographical information on the Internet. This location object extends the Presence Information Data Format (PIDF), which was designed for communicating privacy-sensitive presence information and which has similar properties. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-peterson-geopriv-pidf-lo-01.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#PetersonGEOPRIV
"RPID: Rich Presence Information Data Format." Edited by Henning Schulzrinne (Department of Computer Science, Columbia University). With Vijay Gurbani (Lucent), Paul Kyzivat (Cisco Systems), and Jonathan Rosenberg (dynamicsoft). Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Draft. Reference: 'draft-ietf-simple-rpid-00.txt'. July 31, 2003, expires: January 2004. 20 pages. The Rich Presence Information Data Format (RPID) adds elements to the Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) that provide additional information about the presentity and its contacts. This document provides additional status information for presentities and defines a RPID format to convey this information. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-simple-rpid-00.txt http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200309.html#RPID
"MIT to Uncork Futuristic Bar Code." By Alorie Gilbert. In CNET News.com (August 29, 2003). A group of academics and business executives is planning to introduce a next-generation bar code system, which could someday replace barcodes with a microchip. The EPC Network will make its debut in Chicago on September 15, 2003 at the EPC Symposium. http://news.com.com/2100-1019_3-5069619.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#GilbertEPC
"PML Server Developments." By Mark Harrison, Humberto Moran, James Brusey, and Duncan McFarlane. White Paper. Auto-ID Centre, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, UK. June 1, 2003. 20 pages. This paper extends our previous white paper on our PML [Physical Markup Language] Server prototype work. We begin with a brief review of the Auto-ID infrastructure, then consider the different types of essential data which could be stored about a tagged physical object or which relate to it. http://www.autoidcenter.org/publishedresearch/cam-autoid-wh015.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#PMLServer
"The End of Systems Integrators?" By Erika Morphy. In CRMDaily.com News (August 29, 2003). As with the applications themselves, verticalization has become the latest thing in integration technology. Siebel continues to expand development of its integration tool, UAN, as does SAP with its respective integration product package, Xapps. http://www.crmdaily.com/perl/story/22193.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#Morphy
"BPEL and Business Transaction Management: Choreology Submission to OASIS WS-BPEL Technical Committee." By Tony Fletcher, Peter Furniss, Alastair Green, and Robert Haugen (Choreology Ltd). Copyright (c) Choreology Ltd, 2003, subject to OASIS IPR Policy. Working paper presented to the OASIS Web Services Business Process Execution Language Technical Committee. This document addresses issues of business transaction management in form of proposals on how to handle transactions in BPEL. The Choreology submission gives the background and context for the BTM issues and proposes syntax constructs as solutions for items 54 to 59 in the TC's issues list. http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200308.html#ChoreologyBTM
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"Plumtree Ships Products to Fully Support WSRP and Proposed JSR 168 Portlet Standards. Plumtree's Standards Implementation Consumes Portlets from BEA, Citrix, IBM, and Oracle." http://xml.coverpages.org/PlumtreePortlet.html
"Uniform Code Council's U Connect Conference to Connect People, Process and Technology. Expanded Conference May 25-27, 2004 to Feature over 90 Sessions." http://xml.coverpages.org/UCC-2004UConnnect.html
"Webswell Connect 1.1 Beta Provides Open Source ebXML Integration Framework." http://xml.coverpages.org/Webswell200309.html
"First Opera for Bidirectional Languages. Opera 7.20 for Windows Fine- Tunes Speed and Performance." http://xml.coverpages.org/OperaV720.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
UCC U Connect Conference 2004. May 25 - 27, 2004. Hilton Anaheim Resort, Anaheim, California, USA. http://www.uc-council.org/uconnect/ http://xml.coverpages.org/UCC-2004UConnnect.html http://www.uc-council.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#ucc2004
WWW2004. The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference. May 17-22, 2004. New York Sheraton, New York, NY, USA. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-09-05-a.html http://www2004.org/ http://www2004.org/cfp/refereed.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#www2004
ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2003. November 20 - 22, 2003. INRIA Rhône-Alpes Research Unit, Grenoble, France. http://wam.inrialpes.fr/doceng2003/ http://wam.inrialpes.fr/doceng2003/cfp.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#acmDocEng2003
ER 2003. 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. October 13 - 16, 2003. DoubleTree North Shore Hotel, [Skokie] Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-08-26-a.html http://www.er.byu.edu/er2003/ http://www.er.byu.edu/er2003/program.php http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#er2003
FTP Enterprise Architecture Summit 2003. October 12 - 14, 2003. Westin Mission Hills Resort, Palm Springs, California, USA. http://www.enterprise-architect.net/summit http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/eas/agendaprint.aspx http://www.ftponline.com/Conferences/eas/speakers.aspx http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#eas2003
SpeechTEK 2003. September 29 - October 2, 2003. New York Marriott Marquis, New York, NY, USA. http://www.speechtek.com/ http://www.speechtek.com/events http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#speechtek2003
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. http://www.ischool.washington.edu/dc2003/ http://www.ischool.washington.edu/dc2003/call.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#dmci2003
Washington Area SGML/XML Users Group XML Authoring/Editing Forum. September 29, 2003. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Virginia, USA. http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/XML-forum/ http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/XML-forum/attendee-register.html http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/XML-forum/vendor-info.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#editingForum
W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets. September 24 - 26, 2003. Santa Clara, California, USA. http://www.w3.org/2003/07/binary-xml-cfp.html http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#BinaryInterchange
ICWS-Europe 2003. The International Conference on Web Services - Europe 2003. "Web Services Architectures, Infrastructures and Applications." September 23 - 24, 2003. Erfurt, Germany. http://www.jeckle.de/ICWS03-Europe http://www.jeckle.de/ICWS03-Europe/cfp.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/ICWS-Europe2003.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#ICWS-Europe03
EDOC 2003. Seventh IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference. September 16 - 19, 2003. Brisbane, Australia. http://edocconference.org/ http://edocconference.org/program.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#edoc2003
Inaugural EPC Executive Symposium. September 15 - 17, 2003. McCormick Place, Chicago, IL, USA. http://show.epcsymposium.com/ http://www.autoidcenter.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/pml-ons.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#epcSymposium
W3C Event on P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages. September 09, 2003. IBM Center, Sydney, Australia. http://www.w3.org/2003/09/09-sydney.html http://www.privacyconference2003.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#W3Cprivacy
Seybold San Francisco 2003. September 8 - 12, 2003. Moscone Center West, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.seybold365.com/sf2003/ http://www.seybold365.com/sf2003/conference/glance.php http://xml.coverpages.org/SeyboldSF2003C10.html http://xml.coverpages.org/SeyboldSF2003.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#seyboldSF2003
XML Database Symposium (XSym 2003). September 8, 2003. The Humboldt- Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. http://www.lirmm.fr/~bella/XSym/ http://www.lirmm.fr/~bella/XSym/program.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/XSym2003-CFP.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#XSym2003
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