XTech 2007: Presentations ā€” IDEAlliance

Michael(tm) Smith (W3C), Deb Bassett (Urbanwide), Rob Lee (Rattle Research)

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

<XML/> without the X - the return of {{Textual}} markup

Presentation: _XML__ without the X - the return of {{Textual}} markup Presentation [PDF]
Papers: <XML/> without the X - the return of {{Textual}} markup, <XML/> without the X - the return of {{Textual}} markup (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

A proposal for a real revolution in 'user-generated content' and news

Kevin Anderson (Guardian Unlimited)

Presentation: A proposal for a real revolution in 'user-generated content' and news Presentation [PDF]
Papers: A proposal for a real revolution in 'user-generated content' and news, A proposal for a real revolution in 'user-generated content' and news (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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

Ajax on mobile devices — making mobile web apps ubiquitous

Rocco Georgi (PavingWays)

Presentation: Ajax on mobile devices — making mobile web apps ubiquitous Presentation [PDF]
Papers: Ajax on mobile devices — making mobile web apps ubiquitous, Ajax on mobile devices — making mobile web apps ubiquitous (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

An approach to realizing user-friendly authoring tool for Document-centric XML

Tetsuya Tashiro (Justsystems corporation)

Presentation: An approach to realizing user-friendly authoring tool for Document-centric XML Presentation [ZIP]
Papers: An approach to realizing user-friendly authoring tool for Document-centric XML, An approach to realizing user-friendly authoring tool for Document-centric XML (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

An Augmented Wiki for Interactive Scientific Visualization and Evolutionary Collaboration

Frank Marchese (Pace University)

Presentation: An Augmented Wiki for Interactive Scientific Visualization and Evolutionary Collaboration Presentation [PDF]
Papers: An Augmented Wiki for Interactive Scientific Visualization and Evolutionary Collaboration , An Augmented Wiki for Interactive Scientific Visualization and Evolutionary Collaboration (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

Applying the Internationalization Tag Set

Yves Savourel (ENLASO)

Presentation: Applying the Internationalization Tag Set Presentation [ZIP]
Papers: Applying the Internationalization Tag Set, Applying the Internationalization Tag Set (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

Applying XML centric techniques to business problems "Case study: UBL"

Hideki Hiura (JustSystems Inc.)

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.

Atomisation and Open Data

Jo Walsh (Open Knowledge Foundation), Rufus Pollock (Open Knowledge Foundation)

Presentation: Atomisation and Open Data Presentation [ZIP]
Papers: Atomisation and Open Data, Atomisation and Open Data (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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

Barcamping and Co-working, Parisian style

Ori Pekelman (AF83)

How much do cultural differences affect the transposition of models born in the US? Join those who have organized and promoting Barcamps in Paris and jumpstarted the first Parisian co-working space.

Building the World, one photo at a time

Katie Portwin (Quakr), Peter Arbuthnott (Quakr), David Sant (Quakr)

Presentation: Building the World, one photo at a time Presentation [PDF]
Papers: Building the World, one photo at a time, Building the World, one photo at a time (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

Building video webs with Annodex

Conrad Parker (Annodex Association)

Presentation: Building video webs with Annodex Presentation [ZIP]
Papers: Building video webs with Annodex, Building video webs with Annodex (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

CMMLWiki is your personal video blog and archive with video upload, on-the-fly metadata editing and Annodex for in-browser playback from arbitrary offsets and discoverable, distributed video search.

Ceci n'est pas seulement une pipe: semantic meaning of everyday objects in a connected world

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (Tinker.it)

Presentation: Ceci n'est pas seulement une pipe_ semantic meaning of everyday objects in a connected world Presentation [PDF]

Using examples of applications to illustrate the semantic disturbance that takes place when then web hacks objects of everyday lives and when it makes them disappear.

Closing keynote

Matt Webb (Schulze and Webb)

Closing keynote address.

Communicating access and usage permissions for online content

Francis Cave (Francis Cave Digital Publishing)

Presentation: Communicating access and usage permissions for online content Presentation [PPT]
Papers: Communicating access and usage permissions for online content, Communicating access and usage permissions for online content (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

Connecting First and Second Life

Matt Biddulph (hackdiary.com)

Presentation: Connecting First and Second Life Presentation [PDF]

Online virtual worlds are becoming graphical, mainstream and popular. Find out how developers are using HTTP to bridge between the metaverse and the real world.

Creole: Validating Overlapping Markup

Jeni Tennison (The Stationery Office)

Presentation: Creole_ Validating Overlapping Markup Presentation [ZIP]
Papers: Creole: Validating Overlapping Markup, Creole_ Validating Overlapping Markup (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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

Data Model Perspectives for XML Schema

Felix Michel (ETH Zurich), Erik Wilde (UC Berkeley)

Presentation: Data Model Perspectives for XML Schema Presentation [PDF]

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.

Database Commons, Licensing Open Data

Rob Styles (Talis)

Presentation: Database Commons, Licensing Open Data Presentation [PDF]

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?

DataDirect XQuery 3.0 — Simplying Relational and XML Data Integration

Brian Anderson (DataDirect)

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

Digging the gold mine for XSLT stylesheets

Fabrice DesrĆ© (Orange Labs)

Presentation: Digging the gold mine for XSLT stylesheets Presentation [PDF]
Papers: Digging the gold mine for XSLT stylesheets, Digging the gold mine for XSLT stylesheets (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

In this session we will describe a specialized search engine that allows to find XSLT transformations matching some constraints, like the input and output vocabularies processed by the stylesheet.

Digital rights in the EU

Suw Charman (Independent social software consultant/Open Rights Group)

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.

Electronic Licensing with XML and Web 2.0 Technology

Alex Brown (Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd), Francis Cave (Francis Cave Digital Publishing)

Presentation: Electronic Licensing with XML and Web 2_0 Technology Presentation [PPT]

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.

Everyware: Expectation, emergence, reality

Adam Greenfield (Studies and Observations)

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.

Formalising the Proximate Semantics of XML Languages with UML, OWL and GRDDL

Henry S Thompson (University of Edinburgh)

Presentation: Formalising the Proximate Semantics of XML Languages with UML, OWL and GRDDL Presentation [ZIP]
Papers: Formalising the Proximate Semantics of XML Languages with UML, OWL and GRDDL, Formalising the Proximate Semantics of XML Languages with UML, OWL and GRDDL (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

From Trees to Graphs: Evolving XML for building enterprise applications

Ravi Murthy (Oracle Corporation)

Presentation: From Trees to Graphs_ Evolving XML for building enterprise applications Presentation [PPT]
Papers: From Trees to Graphs: Evolving XML for building enterprise applications, From Trees to Graphs_ Evolving XML for building enterprise applications (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

Geolocation BOF

Michael(tm) Smith (W3C), Ryan Sarver (Skyhook Wireless)

This BOF session focuses on discussion of mechanisms for enabling Web developers to create "location aware" Web applications, through access to user geolocation information exposed to browsers.

Geospatial Data: A Two-Way Street?

Schuyler Erle (MetaCarta, Inc.)

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?

Google Base, a mashups database for the REST of us

Jeffrey Scudder (Google)

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.

Google Data API

Frank Mantek (Google)

Presentation: Google Data API Presentation [PDF]

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.

How NewsML-G2 simplifies and fuels news management.

Laurent Le Meur (AFP)

Presentation: How NewsML-G2 simplifies and fuels news management_ Presentation [PPT]

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

Implementing an HTML5 conformance checker using XML tools

Henri Sivonen (Henri Sivonen)

Presentation: Implementing an HTML5 conformance checker using XML tools Presentation [PDF]

The design and implementation of an HTML5 conformance checker based mainly on XML tools--a RELAX NG and Schematon validator--is discussed. Augmenting schema validation with custom code is discussed.

Introduction to Web 2.0

Eric van der Vlist (Dyomedea)

This introduction walks you step by step through a simple yet complete Web 2.0 "mashup" application.

Jabber: Social Software for Robots

Blaine Cook (Obvious Corp.), Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Flickr (Yahoo))

Presentation: Jabber_ Social Software for Robots Presentation [PDF]

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

Jaiku - rich presence

Ralph Meijer (Mediamatic Lab)

Presentation: Jaiku - rich presence Presentation [ZIP]

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.

JavaScript Libraries: The Big Picture

Simon Willison (-)

Presentation: JavaScript Libraries_ The Big Picture Presentation [PDF]

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.

Keynote

Gavin Starks (d::gen network)

Opening keynote address

Large scale XBRL introduction for Dutch eGovernment

Henk Gingnagel (Getronics)

Presentation: Large scale XBRL introduction for Dutch eGovernment Presentation [PPT]
Papers: Large scale XBRL introduction for Dutch eGovernment, Large scale XBRL introduction for Dutch eGovernment (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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

Making Massive Datasets Universally Accessible and Useful

Jon Trowbridge (Google, Inc.)

Presentation: Making Massive Datasets Universally Accessible and Useful Presentation [ZIP]

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.

Mashing Up With User-centric Identity

Praveen Alavilli (AOL)

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

Microformats: the nanotechnology of the semantic web

Jeremy Keith (Clearleft)

Presentation: Microformats_ the nanotechnology of the semantic web Presentation [PDF]
Papers: Microformats: the nanotechnology of the semantic web, Microformats_ the nanotechnology of the semantic web (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

Mobile phonebook mashup application developed using Web technologies

Guido Grassel (Nokia Research Center)

Presentation: Mobile phonebook mashup application developed using Web technologies Presentation [PDF]
Papers: Mobile phonebook mashup application developed using Web technologies, Mobile phonebook mashup application developed using Web technologies (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

MXML: The XML framework behind Flex and Apollo

Duane Nickull (Adobe Systems)

Presentation: MXML_ The XML framework behind Flex and Apollo Presentation [ZIP]

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.

My stylesheet runs, but...

Tony Graham (Menteith Consulting Ltd)

Presentation: My stylesheet runs, but___ Presentation [PDF]
Papers: My stylesheet runs, but..., My stylesheet runs, but... (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

A working stylesheet may be too slow or incorrect. This presentation surveys the profilers, unit test frameworks and other tools for ensuring the quality of your XSLT.

Nabaztag and the Emergence of the Internet of Things

Rafi Haladjian (Violet)

Presentation: Nabaztag and the Emergence of the Internet of Things Presentation [PDF]

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.

New Opportunity Knocks: Streamline your Web 2.0 Solutions from End-to-End with XML

Chris Gruber (IBM)

By making XML more integral to Web 2.0 applications developers can build high performance applications more quickly while maintaining flexibility in the design.

NVDL - a breath of fresh air for compound document validation

Jirka Kosek (University of Economics, Prague), Petr Nįlevka (University of Economics, Prague)

Presentation: NVDL - a breath of fresh air for compound document validation Presentation [PDF]
Paper: NVDL - a breath of fresh air for compound document validation

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.

Online distribution of scientific research

Alf Eaton (Nature), Gavin Bell (Nature)

This BOF session will cover several themes important to those developing and promoting tools for scientific research, collaboration and publishing online.

Open AIM as it relates to you

Thomas Crenshaw (AIM/AOL), Kevin Lawver (AIM Pages/AOL)

Presentation: Open AIM as it relates to you Presentation [PDF]

AOL is working hard to be more open. AIM and AIMPages are part of this intiative. This presentation will discuss AIM's vision of "open" and the tools that AIM has provided to the community.

Open Data in HTML: GRDDL, eRDF and RDFa

Elias Torres (IBM), Lee Feigenbaum (IBM)

Presentation: Open Data in HTML_ GRDDL, eRDF and RDFa Presentation [PDF]
Papers: Open Data in HTML: GRDDL, eRDF and RDFa, Open Data in HTML_ GRDDL, eRDF and RDFa (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

Open Data in Science

Peter Murray-Rust (University of Cambridge)

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.

Opening the Silos: sustainable models for open data

Paul Miller (Talis)

Presentation: Opening the Silos_ sustainable models for open data Presentation [PDF]

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

OpenStreetMap

Stephen Coast (OpenStreetMap)

Learn how all of openstreetmap works from the server to the client, and then go out and help map Paris!

P2P Computing with Web Arrays

Ivo Georgiev (Investor BG), Iliya Georgiev (Metro State College of Denver)

Presentation: P2P Computing with Web Arrays Presentation [PPT]

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.

Physical hyperlinks

Timo Arnall (Oslo School of Architecture & Design)

Presentation: Physical hyperlinks Presentation [PDF]

Physical hyperlinks promise to bring the web to the physical world. We present a history of physical browsing applications, alongside recent mobile experiments and prototypes.

Pipelines: Plumbing for the next web

Ian Forrester (BBC)

Presentation: Pipelines_ Plumbing for the next web Presentation [PDF]
Papers: Pipelines: Plumbing for the next web, Pipelines_ Plumbing for the next web (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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

Practical ubiquity with mobile phones

Claus Dahl (Imity.com)

Presentation: Practical ubiquity with mobile phones Presentation [PDF]
Papers: Practical ubiquity with mobile phones, Practical ubiquity with mobile phones (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

Imity is a live experiment piggybacking mobile identity and a social web on the ubiquitous world of bluetooth cell phones.

Pragmatics of Declarative Programming in Web Development

Dave Johnson (Nitobi)

Presentation: Pragmatics of Declarative Programming in Web Development Presentation [PDF]

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.

Printing the web

HĆ�kon Wium Lie (Opera)

Presentation: Printing the web Presentation [PDF]

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

Putting SVG and CDF to Use in an Internet Desktop Application

Antoine Quint (Joost)

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.

Real life migration to a web-centered information system thanks to Ruby on Rails

Xavier Cazin (Éditions O'Reilly)

Presentation: Real life migration to a web-centered information system thanks to Ruby on Rails Presentation [PDF]
Papers: Real life migration to a web-centered information system thanks to Ruby on Rails, Real life migration to a web-centered information system thanks to Ruby on Rails (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

Real-time user-to-user web with Mozilla and XMPP

Massimiliano Mirra (n/a)

Presentation: Real-time user-to-user web with Mozilla and XMPP Presentation [ZIP]
Papers: Real-time user-to-user web with Mozilla and XMPP, Real-time user-to-user web with Mozilla and XMPP (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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".

Real-world metadata registries; sharing concepts, schemas and semantics.

Emma Tonkin (UKOLN)

Presentation: Real-world metadata registries; sharing concepts, schemas and semantics_ Presentation [PDF]
Papers: Real-world metadata registries; sharing concepts, schemas and semantics., Real-world metadata registries; sharing concepts, schemas and semantics. (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

RSS Remixing

Ian Davis (Talis)

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.

Scaling your webapp without tearing your hair out

James Cox (smokeclouds)

Presentation: Scaling your webapp without tearing your hair out Presentation [PDF]

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?

Searching the Now

Josh Lucas (Los Angeles Times Interactive)

Presentation: Searching the Now Presentation [PPT]

The need for real-time search indexes increases in importance with always-on Web connectivity. Users can receive pertinent information instead of billions of search results.

Security and REST Web Services

Richard Mooney (Vordel)

Presentation: Security and REST Web Services Presentation [PPT]

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

symfony: simplify professional web development with PHP

Fabien POTENCIER (SENSIO)

Presentation: symfony_ simplify professional web development with PHP Presentation [PPT]
Papers: symfony: simplify professional web development with PHP, symfony_ simplify professional web development with PHP (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

Taking Control of your Database

Sam Newman (ThoughtWorks)

Presentation: Taking Control of your Database Presentation [PPT]
Papers: Taking Control of your Database, Taking Control of your Database (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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

The Broken World: Solving the Browser Problem Once and For All

Molly Holzschlag (molly.com, inc.)

Presentation: The Broken World_ Solving the Browser Problem Once and For All Presentation [PDF]

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

The browser as a platform for stand alone web applications - Opera Widgets

Geir Pedersen (Opera), Arve Bersvendsen (Opera Software ASA)

Presentation: The browser as a platform for stand alone web applications - Opera Widgets Presentation [ZIP]

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.

The future of HTML

Michael(tm) Smith (W3C)

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.

The implications of OpenID

Simon Willison (-)

Presentation: The implications of OpenID Presentation [PDF]

OpenID is a light-weight, decentralised authentication system that is gaining ground with enthusiasts and entrepreneurs alike. Learn how it works and what you can do with it.

The Long Tail of Democratic Participation

Rob McKinnon (-)

Papers: The Long Tail of Democratic Participation, The Long Tail of Democratic Participation (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

The Papernet

Aaron Cope (Flickr)

Presentation: The Papernet Presentation [ZIP]

Small pieces of paper, loosely joined

The Web Everywhere

Charles McCathieNevile (Opera), HĆ�kon Wium Lie (Opera), Geir Pedersen (Opera)

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

W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity

Dave Raggett (W3C/JustSystems)

Presentation: W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity Presentation [PDF]

The W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications activity aims to make it easier to create distributed Web applications involving a wide diversity of devices.

Web-app access to "sensors" on mobile devices

Michael(tm) Smith (W3C)

Presentation: Web-app access to "sensors" on mobile devices Presentation [PDF]
Papers: Web-app access to "sensors" on mobile devices, Web-app access to "sensors" on mobile devices (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

Making Web apps interact with common "sensor" hardware on mobile devices requires scripting APIs to that hardware -- APIs that haven't been standardized yet. This session looks at what's needed.

What is your provenance?

Gavin Bell (Nature)

Presentation: What is your provenance? Presentation [PDF]
Papers: What is your provenance?, What is your provenance? (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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?

Widgets: The Small, Cute, Powerful Side of WebApps

Robin Berjon (Joost)

This BOF is targeted at people who develop widgets for various environments, make such systems, or are interested in their reusability across different vendors.

XForms 1.1

Steven Pemberton (CWI/W3C)

XForms is the new Web forms technology being widely adopted by industry. This tutorial introduces you to it, and what is new in XForms 1.1

XForms, REST, XQuery...and skimming

Mark Birbeck (webBackplane, W3C Invited Expert)

'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.

XML and LINQ: What's new in Orcas and beyond

Erik Meijer (Microsoft)

Papers: XML and LINQ: What's new in Orcas and beyond, XML and LINQ_ What's new in Orcas and beyond (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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 vocabulary design and specification using XML Schema 1.0

C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (W3C)

This tutorial introduces participants to the design and specification of XML vocabularies. XML Schema 1.0 is used, but the emphasis is on the intellectual and social problems of language design.

XML-powered Exhibit: A Case Study of JSON & XML Coexistence

Chimezie Ogbuji (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)

Presentation: XML-powered Exhibit_ A Case Study of JSON _ XML Coexistence Presentation [PDF]
Papers: XML-powered Exhibit: A Case Study of JSON & XML Coexistence, XML-powered Exhibit_ A Case Study of JSON & XML Coexistence (Prince PDF version) [PDF]

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.

XQuery 1.0, XPath 2.0, and XSLT 2.0 Explained

Priscilla Walmsley (Datypic)

A detailed technical introduction to XQuery 1.0, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0. The XQuery section will provide a solid basis in XQuery. The discussion of XSLT will focus on the new features in 2.0.

You are here: Creating location based services

Paul Hammond (Yahoo)

Presentation: You are here_ Creating location based services Presentation [PDF]

Many of the most interesting uses of the ubiquitous web rely on knowing where someone or something is. How can we find this information and what can we do with it?

You're older than you've ever been, and now you're even older, and now you're older still: a talk about time.

Tom Carden (Stamen), Michal Migurski (Stamen)

Many social websites are based around streams of content and will need robust ways to mine the past. We offer a practical yet fanciful overview of the exploration and navigation of time-series data.

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