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Cover Pages Newsletter
December 09, 2003
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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 [Full abstract] http://xml.coverpages.org/covernewsTOP.html [Brief summary] http://xml.coverpages.org/covernews.xml [RSS]
W3C TAG Publishes Last Call Working Draft for Architecture of the World Wide Web.
W3C's Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released a Last Call Working Draft for the "Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition." Written for Web developers, implementers, content authors, and publishers, the WD describes desirable properties of the Web and design choices that have been made to achieve them. Three architectural bases of the Web are discussed, including identification (URIs), interaction (protocols, agents), and data formats.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-12-09-a.html
HR-XML Consortium Approves Assessments Specification for Skills Evaluation.
The "Assessments 1.0" specification recently approved by the membership of the HR-XML Consortium features six new XML Schemas supporting order requests to providers of assessment and testing services, and the return of assessment status and results. The HR-XML Assessments 1.0 standard provides employers the flexibility and efficiencies of being able to order, manage, and apply assessments from within their HR or recruiting solution of choice.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-12-05-a.html
IBM Submits EPAL Version 1.2 Privacy Specification to W3C.
W3C has acknowledged receipt of IBM's "Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language (EPAL) Version 1.2" as a Member Submission request. The specification includes a prose description of syntax and semantics, with formal definition of the EPAL syntax in an XML Schema. EPAL defines a formal language for writing enterprise privacy policies to govern data handling practices in IT systems according to fine- grained positive and negative authorization rights.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-12-04-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
"OASIS Elects IBM, Nokia, Oracle Staff to Board. Companies Fill New Seats Created During Organization's Expansion." By Stacy Cowley. In InfoWorld (December 08, 2003). Representatives from Nokia Corp., Oracle Corp. and IBM Corp. have joined the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards' (OASIS) Board of Directors: Frederick Hirsch of Nokia, Jeff Mischkinsky of Oracle, and Michael Weiner of IBM were elected to fill three new seats created through the recent expansion of OASIS' board. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/08/HNoasiselects_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#OASISBoard
"Review: StarOffice 7 -- Innovation In Action." By Bruce Byfield. From OSDN NewsForge (December 08, 2003). Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 7, released November 12, offers significant advantages in performance, usability, and stability over rival commercial office suites, including Microsoft Office. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/08/1738212 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Byfield
"Blue Titan Ships SOA Tool. Network Director 2.5 Features Faster Linux Performance." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (December 09, 2003). Blue Titan is shipping Network Director 2.5, which the company is calling an enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) 'Fabric.' The company describes an SOA Fabric as a network overlay that provides a unified control layer for Web services-based interactions. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/09/HNblue_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#BlueTitan
"Intelligent Documents Headline XML 2003." By Edd Dumbill. From XML.com (December 09, 2003). At the opening of this year's XML USA conference in Philadephia, PA, smart XML documents were the star. Keynotes from Jon Udell of InfoWorld and Shantanu Narayen of Adobe focused on XML documents that conveyed the nuance of real world communication. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/12/09/xml2003plenary.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#IntelligentDoc
"Microsoft, Adobe and W3C to Shake Up Electronic Forms Market." By Bill Trippe. In The Gilbane Report Volume 11, Number 8 (October 2003), pages 1-10. eForms technology has grown by providing better functionality in at least three areas: improvements in the rendering of the forms; improvements in the validation and user interface; improvements in the interoperability of the forms technology with other software. http://www.gilbane.com/abspdf/fpGR11.8.pdf http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#TrippeForms
"XML Developers Get Slew of New Tools." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (December 09, 2003). With XML adoption widespread in the industry, vendors exhibiting at the XML Conference and Expo 2003 are offering solutions to make it even more palatable for users and developers. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1407750,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#XML2003Tools
"WS-I Issues Use Cases for Web Services. Ten Companies, Including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Provide Implementations." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (December 09, 2003). WS-I has released its WS-I Sample Application 1.0 documents, providing use cases for interoperable Web services. Being released at XML 2003, the documents consist of WS-I Supply Chain Use Cases 1.0, Usage Scenarios, Supply Chain Management Technical Architecture, and Sample Application 1.0 implementations developed by 10 vendor companies. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/09/HNwsi_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#KrillWSIInterop
"Making Web Services Work at Amazon." By Edd Dumbill. From XML.com (December 09, 2003). Jeff Barr, Amazon's web services evangelist, explained to XML 2003 attendees the decisions facing Amazon in opening up their systems for public use via web services. His talk provided many good pointers for large businesses considering opening themselves to greater programmatic interaction with developers. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/12/09/xml2003amazon.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Dumbill
"Software AG Extends Access to Natural Programs. Version 6 of Development Environment is Launched." By Paul Krill. In InfoWorld (December 09, 2003). "Software AG is shipping Version 6 of its Natural 4GL development environment, enabling Windows developers to access Natural programs running on a Unix or mainframe system. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/09/HNag_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#KrillNatural
"Building a Security Infrastructure." By Rich Salz. From O'Reilly WebServices.XML.com (December 09, 2003). Having offered a rationale for XKMS as an important web service and looked at reducing the problem of implementing such a service to a reasonable size, Salz now builds the infrastructure necessary to develop and deploy an XKMS registration server that can issue certificates and which is intended for use within an enterprise. http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/12/09/salz.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Salz
"Oracle Launches HR-XML Product. Will Microsoft Word Follow?" By Ephraim Schwartz. In InfoWorld (December 08, 2003). Human Resources recruiters received welcome news when Oracle announcesd that its Human Resources Management System will use the HR-XML standard for data exchange. The HR-XML standard promises to reduce time spent in manually re-inputting resumes into custom systems and fees expended for resume parsing software and services. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/08/HNoracle_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#OracleHR
"Open Integration and Security: XML Firewalls Provide Ease of Integration and Security." By John Lilly (Reactivity). In XML Journal Volume 4, Issue 12 (December 2003). XML firewalls can provide robust integration and interoperability points. Using an XML firewall, security architects and business managers can define the level of security enforcement they need to protect the enterprise and also meet their business requirements. http://www.sys-con.com/xml/article.cfm?id=756 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Lilly
"Computer Associates Shows its WSDM." By Matt Villano. In CRN (December 08, 2003). Computer Associates's newly shipping Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) software is the company's first offering to monitor and manage Web services across an enterprise. http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=46526 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Villano
"U.K. Government Considers Sun in Open Source Software Push." By Scarlet Pruitt. In NetworkWorld (December 08, 2003). The U.K. government has signed a five-year agreement with Sun to potentially offer the company's new Java Desktop System and Java Enterprise System software to public sector agencies as part of an overall open source push. The OGC is just one of a growing number of government agencies looking to curb costs through the adoption of open source software. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1208ukgovt.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#OGC-Sun
"CA Releases Unicenter Web-Services Management System." By Darryl K. Taft. In eWEEK (December 08, 2003). Computer Associates has released its Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management system. It manages Web services natively at the service level by monitoring SOAP messages. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1407144,00.asp http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#TaftCA
"News Standard Summit Wrapup." By Sam Ruby (Intertwingly.net). December 08, 2003. Notes on the Philadelphia News Standards Summit. A presentation on the Atom syndication format was given by Sam Ruby at the News Standards Summit, held 2003-12-08 in conjunction with XML 2003. http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1668.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#RubyNotes
"A Potluck Party for XML." By Clint Boulton. From InteretNews.com (December 08, 2003). At XML 2003 key standards bodies including the W3C, OASIS, and WS-I all showed interoperability demonstrations. XML 2003 allowed participants the chance to showcase their progress in developing standards-compliant software, and offers attendees the opportunity to see numerous product demonstrations in action. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3285991 http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Boulton
"Web Services Intermediaries Evolve." By Phillip J. Windley. In InfoWorld (December 16, 2003). WSI (Web services intermediaries) address the need for faster, more flexible application integration with configurable tools for creating reliable, scalable Web services networks. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/26/47FEwspreview_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Windley
Test Center Analysts Debate Wrapping Up Web Presence. Will Web Services Be the Catalyst for Collaboration Evolution?" By P.J. Connolly and Jon Udell. In InfoWorld (December 05, 2003). Enterprise collaboration faces a number of challenges in the years to come. IM systems today are where e-mail was back in the late 1980s: islands of common use separated by protocols, vendors, and the network itself. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/05/48FEcollabpcp_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#ConnollyIM
"Versioning XML Vocabularies." By David Orchard. From XML.com (December 03, 2003). A whitepaper presenting best practices for versioning W3C XML Schema based XML vocabularies, describing techniques to achieve more effective loose coupling between systems by increasing the possibility for backwards- and forwards-compatible changes to occur when related systems evolve. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/12/03/versioning.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#OrchardVersion
"Styling RDF Graphs with GSS." By Emmanuel Pietriga. From XML.com (December 03, 2003). Visualising RDF graphs is a hard problem, as they can quickly become unwieldy. This article introduces a solution in the form off GSS (Graph Style Sheets), an RDF vocabulary for describing rule-based style sheets used to modify the visual representation of RDF models represented as node-link diagrams. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/12/03/gss.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Pietriga
"Trees, Temporarily." By Bob DuCharme. From XML.com (December 03, 2003). In his latest Transforming XML column Bob DuCharme explains XSLT 2.0's Temporary Trees, and then he demonstrates how to use them. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/12/03/tr.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#TempTrees
"IBM, BEA Lay Out New Java Specs. Sun, Oracle, Not Behind Initiative." By Ed Scannell. In InfoWorld (December 01, 2003). IBM and BEA Systems have disclosed that they are working jointly on three new specifications for the Java platform. The new specifications (Service Data Objects, Work Manager for Application Servers, and Timer for Applications Servers) are designed to increase application portability between IBM's WebSphere and BEA's WebLogic application servers. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/01/47NNbea_1.html http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlPapers200312.html#Scannell
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Selected references for abstracted and annotated industry news at: http://xml.coverpages.org/press.html
"IPTC Joins in XML News Standards Summit. IPTC Roadmap 2005 for NewsML, NITF and SportsML." http://xml.coverpages.org/IPTC-Roadmap2005.html
"Software AG Increases XML Support Within Its Natural Development Environment for Windows, UNIX and Linux Platforms. Natural version 6 Enables Developers to Access XML Documents Stored in the Company's Tamino XML Server Without Learning an XML-Specific Query Language." http://xml.coverpages.org/SAG-DML.html
"Blue Titan Advances Industry's First Enterprise SOA Fabric. Network Director 2.5 Delivers Increased Scalability and Extensibility." http://xml.coverpages.org/BTitanSOA.html
"Sun's Radical New Java System Software Wins Whitehall Approval. Sun Microsystems and the UK Government Sign Software Purchasing Agreement to Offer the Public Sector Open, Secure Software Technology and Reduced IT Costs." http://xml.coverpages.org/OGC-SunOpenSource.html
"CA Ships Innovative Solution to Monitor and Manage Web Services Across and Beyond the Enterprise. Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management Ensures Reliability and Performance for On-Demand Computing." http://xml.coverpages.org/CA-Unicenter.html
"XyEnterprise Releases Version 1.1 of XPP Web Services Toolkit. New XPP Personal Edition Available." http://xml.coverpages.org/XPP-WSv11.html
"Oracle Leads Development of Open Standards for Human Resources Software, Helps Customers Automate Information Exchange and Reduce Integration Costs. Oracle Human Resources Management System One of First to Receive HR-XML Certification." http://xml.coverpages.org/OracleHRXML.html
"Web Editor Framework Out of Beta. Ontopia Announces Ontopia Knowledge Suite Release 2.0." http://xml.coverpages.org/OntopiaOKS20.html
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Selected references from the events calendar at: http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html
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
ODRL International Workshop 2004. April 21 - 23, 2004. Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria. http://odrl.net/workshop2004/ http://xml.coverpages.org/ODRL-Workshop2004.html http://odrl.net/workshop2004/cfp.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#odrl2004 http://xml.coverpages.org/drm.html
The Gilbane Conference on Content Management. March 24 - 26, 2004. Los Angeles, CA, USA. http://www.gilbane.com/CM_conference_LA_04.html http://sales.lighthouseseminars.com/lighthouse/conference-grid.html http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#gilbaneCM200403
AIIM 2004 Conference. March 8 - 10, 2004. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY, USA. http://www.aiim2004.com/ http://www.aiim.org/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#aiim2004
Web Services Edge 2004 East International Conference & Expo. February 24 - 26, 2004. Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, USA. http://www.sys-con.com/webservicesedge2004east http://www.sys-con.com/webservicesedge2004east/papers.cfm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#wsEdge2004East
IASTED Special Session on Architectures and Languages for Digital Rights Management and Access Control. December 11, 2003. New York City, NY, USA. http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2003/NewYork/cnis-specsess1.htm http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2003/NewYork/cnis.htm http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#cnisDRM
XML 2003 Conference and Exhibition. "Now We're Cooking". December 7 - 12, 2003. Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2003/ http://xml.coverpages.org/conf.html#xml2003
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