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Content and Knowledge with XML

The XML Summer School is now over - plans for the XML Summer School 2007 are under way. Please keep checking the website for further information.

£395.00 + VAT

The delegate fee includes 2 nights accommodation at Wadham College on Sunday 23rd and Monday 24th July. All meals, refreshments and evening excursions are included also.

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Overview

Most organisations are accustomed to creating and sharing information as part of their day-to-day business processes. The information which is shared forms a valuable asset of the organisation. If these base information assets can be enhanced to specify where and when the information can be used in a business process, then the organisation has created an even more valuable asset – knowledge!

Information can be transformed into knowledge by adding meta data (information about the information), ontology (classification schemes that organise the concepts in a vocabulary of terms that are used to populate the values of meta data) and processes (a representation of the business processes and procedures that are performed in an organisation).

XML is an ideal technology for representing information (content) and for providing the necessary tools to turn content into knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course you will understand:

Who should attend

This course is aimed both at leaders, managers and strategists who want to understand the potential of XML to deliver real value to their organisation, as well as technologists who want to gain a broader picture of how XML can be applied to content and knowledge applications.

Faculty

This course is prepared and delivered by a world-renowned faculty, including:

Learning Curriculum

Module 1 - Managing and Delivering XML Content – the Value Proposition

1.1 Information as a Corporate Asset

Speaker: Peter Brown

How to elevate information (and knowledge) to the status of a valuable corporate asset by developing a management strategy, processes, governance and ownership. How information can be made more valuable by capturing semantics and treating data/information models as IT assets.

You will learn how to formulate and drive the ‘XML Manifesto’ – the blueprint for adopting XML – and how to sell it up, down and across your organisation.

1.2 Requirements for Managing and Delivering Information as XML

Speaker: Debbie Lapeyre

XML may seem an ideal technology solution, but as with any other technology, its choice as the technical basis for a solution should be driven by the business needs and detailed requirements.

You will learn how XML meets business needs for managing information as a corporate asset, and how to adopt a requirements driven, rather than a technology driven perspective.

1.3 Productivity Tools for XML

Speaker: Peter Flynn

XML is now a mature technology, which means that technical complexity can be hidden below layers of tooling which harness the power of the base technology, whilst making it easy and cost affective to gain the benefits of XML. Here we cover the productivity tools that can maximise the efficiency of the ‘content supply chain’, with consideration of enterprise needs including change management, training and resource utilisation.

Based on an understanding on the benefits of the core XML technologies, you will learn about the tools that will delivery end solutions quickly and efficiently in an enterprise environment.

1.4 Versions, Variants and Customised Content

Speaker: Ann Wrightson

The power of XML is fully harnessed when it is used to create and maintain multi-purpose information assets, over an extended information lifecycle. Here is an analytical view of change control and variant management in long-lived multi-purpose content repositories, drawing on examples from engineering documentation, reference publishing, Web information services, and others.

You will learn how to gain true value from reusable XML content and how to surmount the barriers to effective long-term management of versions and variants.

Module 2 – From Content to Knowledge

2.1 Turning XML Content to Executable Knowledge Bases

Speaker: John Chelsom

Information can be transformed into knowledge by adding meta data (information about the information), ontology (classification schemes that organise the concepts in a vocabulary of terms that are used to populate the values of meta data). Such knowledge bases can be made ‘executable’, by using them as the fuel to drive ‘knowledge engines’, delivering knowledge at the right point of the decision-making process.

Recognise the difference between content and knowledge and how XML can provide the representation language for all the key components.

2.2 XML Standards for Meta Data and Ontology

Speaker: Steve Harris

XML content can be turned into knowledge assets by adding meta data, ontology and business process context. Standards have emerged over the last few years that allow these key components of a knowledge base to be created in a consistent way in any organisation, with the benefits of standard tooling, knowledge sharing and aggregation.

Learn which standards are the most important, how they fit together, what their status is and where the standards world is moving.

2.3 Creating XML Knowledge Bases

Speaker: Reuben Wright

Here we focus on the tools and techniques for engineering knowledge as a corporate asset. We will be using the open source Protégé application to illustrate key concepts.

You will learn how knowledge engineering tools such as Protégé can be used to create and maintain knowledge bases using XML standards.

2.4 Applying Knowledge to Support Business Processes

Speaker: Reuben Wright

Building on the hands-on knowledge of Protégé we take the step from static knowledge bases to inference and reasoning, based on open standard knowledge representation.

You will learn how to use Protégé to create executable knowledge and run a standards-fuelled inference and reasoning engine.

 




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