XTech 2007 TITLE

We will discuss LINQ to XML, an in-memory XML programming API designed to take advantage of the latest .NET Framework language innovations, as well as, incubation efforts for post-Orcas technology.

XML Schema not only defines validation grammars: It encodes structural metadata. Appropriate data model representations enable exploiting this data. We present a prototype to demonstrate the benefits.

I'll demonstrate and explain a new ultra-simple protocol for augmenting search results with related content. We send the search results, asking the providers to add what they know about the items.

This presentation describes how to use the W3C's Internationalization Tag Set to on XML data to allow for a more efficient and streamlined localization process.

This paper describes Creole: a new schema language, built on RELAX NG, for validating overlapping markup languages.

Classical schema languages like W3C XML Schema or RELAX NG are not flexible enough for validation of compound documents (CD). Validation of CD is best handled using new language called NVDL.

Held in Trocadero

Jabber (XMPP) as enabling technology of bots and web services to participate in ubiquitous networks. Now! Made easy! With Ruby!

The contacts list on your phone should tell you what your friends are doing, where they are, and what they're planning next. We're working to make this happen.

This session will cover professional web development using PHP5 and the symfony platform. The focus will be on the tools symfony provide to build, test, and deploy *professional* applications.

JavaScript libraries ease the pain of developing complex script-driven behaviours. This talk will discuss problems that these libraries solve and help you pick the library best suited to your needs.

In the coming years, computers, phones and game consoles will no longer be the only devices in our environment deemed worthy to be intelligent and connected.

The next web will be about flow, this flow will be user generated pipelines through applications and services. Unlike before these Pipelines will be definable, non-proprietary and shareable by anyone

Held in Trocadero

This is a panel discussion with key people involved in the charting the future of HTML standards -- not just at the W3C, but also within the WHATWG and the microformats community.

Take better control of web browser interoperability — not only through hacks, but through an understanding of why browsers work the way they do.

They're small, they're simple, and they're showing up everywhere. Find out just how easy it is for you to start publishing with microformats and add to the semantic richness of the Web right now.

We will present technical approaches addressing the explosion of online information hidden in HTML pages today. This example-filled presentation will focus on the latest examples and implementations.

MXML is a declarative language used to build Flex and Apollo applications. At first glance, it appears to be a simple XML vocabulary however it is a far more advanced framework.

This presentation will discuss the characteristics of structure and authoring process of document-centric XML and present a approach to realizing user-friendly authoring tool.

Held in Trocadero

Has the Great Mapping Revolution really happened yet? or are Google Maps and their ilk merely a prelude to an explosion of geographic data and maps, well, everywhere?

To be confirmed

Science needs instant availability of data published in journals but there are serious barriers to obtaining and reusing this. The presentation reviews the issues and proposes necessary actions.

Tags are the new links, but do they make sense to anyone but the tagger? What does ubiquity mean for social creatures like us? Can social networks give us a sense of provenance and act as signposts?

ACAP is a twelve-month project to develop a global standard for owners of online content to communicate access and usage permissions to search engines and other aggregators.

Presents a major new industry standard for representing licences electronically; and the underlying XML and Web 2.0 technologies used for designing it and the software systems that support it.

Held in Trocadero

As late as 2006, the assertion that ubiquitous computing was in the process of transforming everyday life was controversial. A single year later, it's become inarguable.

Opening keynote address