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Message: [QUOTE="Betty Harvey, post: 773559"] The next meeting of the XML Users Group will be held on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) at 2000 Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20009-1277. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. and usually last approximately 2 hours. If attending the meeting by Metro, get off the Dupont Circle stop and walk north to Florida Avenue...turn right. There is no cost associated with attending but if you are planning on attending this meeting, please let us know so that we can give a list to AGU management. You can register at: [URL]http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/meeting-register.html[/URL] July 21, 2004 NOTE: Several copies of Tom Passin's recently published new book "Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web" will be provided by the publisher to be given as door prizes! Dave Sullivan, Zonar Set your information free! Optimize XML productivity by eliminating DTDs. For a brief, shining moment in the late Nineties, it looked like XML was actually going to facilitate universal information interchange. No longer would we have to interpret arbitrary data names, types, formats, and structures to dig out the content we needed for our applications. Well defined elements imbedded in well formed XML would provide understandable, useable and eXtensible packages that could be processed directly by application programs without the need to rearrange them in two-dimensional tables. We could finally deal directly with the n-dimensions of actual Information Space. Unfortunately, this degree of freedom must have looked very much like the edge of the earth to early XML sailors; and in a well- intentioned effort to maximize the application of XML within existing data environments, XML was lashed to predefined DTD and Schema structures that limit its ability to fulfill its original promise. Based on ten years of experience with XML Information Objects, Dave Sullivan suggests that DTDs and Schemas actually detract from the ability of XML to encapsulate information and allow its optimal use by existing data systems. This presentation addresses the nature of computer-based information and how it can be represented in XML packages. It also introduces some concepts of XML algebra and the generation of derivative information objects. Finally, it argues for a departure from process-based information handling in favor of "intelligent" transforms based on semantic "understanding". Tom Passin, Mitre Exploring the Semantic Web A complex set of extensions to the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web will make data and services more accessible to computers and useful to people. Some of these extensions are being deployed, and many are coming in the next years. This presentation will explore the territory of the Semantic Web in a broad and conceptual manner. August 2004 Kirstan Vandersluis, CTO and Founder, Xaware Over the decades, organizations have pieced together computer systems to manage different parts of the business as efficiently as possible. Unfortunately, the evolution of this information technology infrastructure has occurred without an overarching design, resulting in many stand-alone systems that perform a single function well, but fail to interact with each other. This presentation reviews the causes of "information chaos," and presents various tools and technologies available to solve the problem, finishing with the examination of the integration platform developed by XAware, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kirstan Vandersluis, CTO and Founder As founder and Chief Technology Officer of XAware, Kirstan has been instrumental in developing XAware's product suite, leading to four patent applications, the first of which was issued by the Patent Office in March 2002. Kirstan's twenty years of experience in software development spans multiple industries, including financial services, DoD, semiconductor, and telecommunications, where he has engineered the deployment of both corporate and commercial software products. Kirstan's numerous accomplishments with MCI include the architecture, development and implementation of eighteen call center applications for MCI's Call Center Services group, design of a multi-tier, Web-based Local Service Order Collection platform and as Siebel architect, deploying Siebel Systems on several projects. At Array Microsystems, Kirstan led the design and implementation of a chip-level emulator and flowgraph-based environment for JPEG and MPEG coding and decoding. While with the US Air Force, Kirstan designed real-time command, control and communications software for US Space Command, processing messages from distributed sites into a central application located deep in the secure interior of Space Command in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. Kirstan often speaks publicly about XML-related technologies and XAware product strategies and has recently published a book entitled: XML-Based Integration with XAware. Currently we need speakers for both the technical and vendor presentation portion of future meetings. If you would like to give a presentation at a future meeting, please send e-mail or call Betty Harvey (410) 787-9200. Share your knowledge and experience with others. Hope to see you there. Washington Area XML Users Group Web Site: [URL]http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug[/URL] Electronic copies of papers supplied from speakers are available on-line. To subscribe to the Washington Area XML Users Group mailing list, go to [URL]http://ecc05.eccnet.com/mailman/listinfo/xmlusers[/URL]. DIRECTIONS: From Connecticut Avenue north of AGU, make a left onto T Street (1 block before Florida Avenue). Drive one block, the entrance to Atlantic Garage North should be on your right. after Florida Avenue onto T Street. Drive one block. the entrance to Atlantic Garage North should be on your right. - Continue east on I-66 to Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge. This places you on Constitution Avenue. - Take a left on 18th Street, NW and head north. Continue north to Connecticut Avenue. - Turn left (North) on Connecticut Avenue to Florida Avenue. - Right on Florida Avenue. AGU is 1/2 block on the right at the corner of 20th & Florida Avenue. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Betty Harvey | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830 Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. | [email]harvey@eccnet.com[/email] | Washington,DC SGML/XML Users Grp URL: [URL]http://www.eccnet.com[/URL] | [URL]http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/[/URL] /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/ [/QUOTE]

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