XTech 2007 TITLE

DataDirect XQuery™ 3.0 is an implementation of XQuery that can query XML, relational data, SOAP messages, EDI, or a combination of data sources.

This session walks you through how you can address real business problems by applying XML-centric techniques, using UBL-enabling XML applications as a part of a case study.

'skimming' is an approach to building loosely-coupled applications that can run on any server. Combining XForms, REST and XQuery, application development and deployment becomes extremely fast.

Google Base, a public data warehouse, is free to use and it has an API based on GData. I'll cover querying and inserting new items and discuss how Base can serve as a back end for mashups.

The web today has many text formats for data, markup, querying and schema languages as alternatives to XML. This presentation discusses this trend using a case study of the Turtle RDF syntax.

To define an XML language, first we map from XML to abstract data model. We can formalise this step using UML, OWL and GRDDL. The new XML Processing Model language is used to illustrate.

Since GData was launched a year ago, several properties supporting this data exchange format were released. The talk will showcase the benefits of having a uniform data access API on the web.

This paper explores the requirements for managing graphs in XML, proposes several enhancements to the schema and query standards, and discusses various implementation and optimization challenges.

This session answers two questions: Are REST Web Services inherently insecure? How can a security model apply to both SOAP and REST Web Services?

We present a low-entry-barrier P2P Web2.0 open-data computation platform based on Web arrays: annotated collections of Web resources in Atom, served by a REST protocol, and processed by XML pipelines.

This talk covers the opportunities and issues concerned with adopting open protocols for user-centric identity systems.

This talk will look at innovations in making the Web available everywhere, and some of the changes that this can bring.

A fast and fun session of talks of 20 slides, each presented for 20 seconds.

Using techniques developed at ThoughtWorks, I'll show how you can use dbdeploy to manage database change

What has been needed in terms of time, money, human resources and tools, in order to turn an any-old-how publisher's information system into a functional web-centered IS, ready for Publishing 2.0.

A Wiki that supports interactive scientific visualization and collaboration built from open source technology and visualization software with XHTML, Java, Javascript, and XML will be demonstrated.

This paper discusses the role of metadata schema registries in the distributed collaborative development and use of schemas, lessons learned and suggestions for the future.

Since 2005 one of the largest XBRL eGovernment projects worldwide is in execution in the Netherlands. This presentation gives an overview of the experiences.

Discover how the new IPTC standard fulfils its aims of simplicity, interoperability, and capability of interaction with the Semantic Web.

This presentation demonstrates how web authors can have their cake and eat it too by extracting JSON from XML to facilitate the use of frameworks that understand JSON natively.

You have just spent the past six weeks authoring your ground-breaking innovative Ruby-on-rails based app. You’ve taken your breather, launched, and been hit by the techcrunch massive. What Next?

A critical look at the pros and cons of declarative Ajax development, which frameworks use it and an examination of a complete declarative Ajax component.

To be confirmed

Opera Widgets offer a new model for creating web technology based applications where the full application is installed on the client and can access data from multiple HTTP servers.

A look at how various client-side XML technologies, such as SVG and Compound Documents, are being put to use to build The Venice Project internet television application.

Our presentation explains how Web technologies can reduce the complexity and effort for developing UIs for mobile applications and ease the integration of device applications and Web-based services.

Ajax helps to make the web ubiquitous - also on mobile devices. However, browser and device limitations complicate things. The talk explores those and provides best practices for mobile web apps.

CSS3 adds features for printing web content. Footnotes, multi-column layout and crop marks are among the features described in the emerging specifications.

We show how making a user-to-user communication protocol available to web authors significantly changes the interactions we can design and the very way we think about "web applications".

An up-to-the-minute discussion of the key digital rights issues to face technologists in the UK & EU, from the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property to the Television Without Frontiers EU Directive.

Can we increase the number of people able to participate in established democratic processes by making data open on the Web? Will share experiences learnt from developing TheyWorkForYou.co.nz.

A project is underway at Google to collect and distribute large scientific datasets using a 21st century "Sneakernet": multi-terabyte disk arrays shipped via FedEx and other common carriers.

Licensing is more important for keeping things open than keeping them closed. What do we need to know in order to keep our data as open as we want it to be?

Open Data is more than a religious debate. Increasingly, it makes good business sense. Come along to hear how.

The media is fascinated with 'user-generated content', but the revolution starts if you use geo-tagging & tools like Twitter to allow 'citizen-journalists' to network for real-time reporting

This paper describes the experience of developing a 3D virtual world, based on publicly available images and geo-metadata. A practical examination of the hardware, the standards, and user practice.

Atomisation of software components allows amazing productivity through decentralised, collaborative, incremental development. The potentials and problems of this approach to open data distribution.