Trends and Transients in XML
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£195.00 + VAT
A one day module being held on Wednesday 26th July. Tuition and lunch are included.
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Overview
This seminar pits some of the keenest minds of the XML world together, delivering their own verdict on what’s hot and what’s not in XML. This one-day seminar will present a number of specifications and technologies that you’ve heard about and will give you the information to decide whether they’re fads that will never take off, or hidden gems that deserve more attention.
Spend a day hearing the leading names in XML and related technologies debating the cutting edge technologies and trends that are hyped, over-hyped, or under-hyped – always thought provoking and courts controversy.
One of the highlights of the week, this session is XML with attitude – bound to provoke debate and always proves to be richly entertaining and an informative experience for everyone involved!
Who Should Attend
The day is aimed at anyone who wants to learn about the cutting edge technologies that could potentially change the way we work in the future. Aimed at all levels: providing newcomers with an overview of what is exciting in the world of XML and related technologies, while giving the experts something to discuss loudly and vociferously! (which is also entertaining to the newcomers).
Faculty
This course is prepared and delivered by a world-renowned faculty, including:
- Lauren Wood (chair)
- Paul Madsen
- Simon Nicholson
- Paul Prescod
- Others to be confirmed
Learning Curriculum
Course 1
1.1 The Revolution in Content Delivery
Speaker: Paul Prescod
This year we introduce a new name to the Summer School, Paul Prescod. Paul will be teaming up with other key speakers to talk about the hot trends in XML and will be presenting this one-day seminar, The Revolution in Content Delivery.
Every day, the Internet becomes more central to customer's experience of all sorts of products. Gadget geeks go to the Internet to find hidden features and device hacks. Financial services consumers investigate their holdings. Moviegoers look up the biographies of actors and backstories of characters.
Customers increasingly demand that corporations deliver the content that they need in the forms that they prefer. Luckily, new technologies help organizations manage the complex logistics of getting personalized content out in the right languages, through the right channels in the right formats. Relevant standards include DITA for authoring, XLIFF for translation, TMX for translation memory, RSS/Atom for Web syndication, MAML for delivery on Microsoft's Vista platform and PDF or XPS for print-ready delivery. Together, these technologies allow organizations to optimize their content assembly lines and enhance customer experiences.
Course 2
2.1 The New Web Client
Speaker: To be confirmed
Synopsis to be released shortly.
Course 3
3.1 Social Identity & XML
Speaker: Paul Madsen
You're probably quite tired of hearing 'It's not what you know, it's who you know'. So I promise not to use it. On the Web it's not even completely true. Online, 'It's not just who you know, it's how the relationship is recorded'. The mechanism and/or syntax by which the connection between two users (e.g. between family members, business colleagues, gamers, etc) is expressed can significantly impact its scope and usefulness. If the fact that two online users 'know' each other can't be communicated between application providers in a standardized and rich syntax, then the value of that connection will be limited to whatever application context that the connection was first established in.
Sometimes these sort of social silos are relevant (the users I play online games with are not the same as those I share sensitive business documents with). But, other times a relationship can cross application boundaries (I might both allow a colleague to see my photos from a recent conference and to post comments on my blog) and so this relationship should be expressed such that its existence and details are also transferable across the boundary. In this talk I'll present a number of different initiatives for using XML to express social identity such that a user's social network can be leveraged across their various online applications. We'll discuss the motivating use cases of these different initiatives, how they are similar, how they differ, and how they might be compatible.
P.S. If, by the end of the session, you haven't mentally drawn tags around the other members of the audience and added metadata describing the nature of your relationship with them then I'll buy you a pint.
Course 4
4.1 Phones and Computing
Speaker: Simon Nicholson
The phone - fabulous little device that has been changing the world ever since, 130 years ago, Bell and Watson developed the first devices for transmitting voice-like sounds. However, changes in quality, cost, and form aside, the phone has not evolved that far. Most still view their phones as voice based communication devices. But maybe that is on the point of changing.
Since the first commercial "text" was exchanged in December 1992, SMS has been responsible for making a highly significant contribution to mobile operator revenues. 2004 estimated volumes are 500 billion messages per annum, or more personally roughly 100 messages for everyone on the planet. Not bad for a technology that was originally conceived as a way of notifying users of an event such as "you have a voice mail"!
Since that point not only is SMS crossing over into the world of fixed line telephony, but we are seeing the growth of the mobile phone as a platform for data. Ringtone revenues are now estimated at 10% of the global music market, one analyst (FutureImage) estimated that 5 out of every 6 phones sold in 2005 would be a camera phone, global estimates for mobile gaming are in excess of $5billion and 2006 is being forecast as the break out year for the phone as a music player, with TV to follow.
The mobile phone is a lead contender as platform of choice in the Consumer Electronics market providing key capabilities for content consumption, generation and exchange for voice and other data types.
Beyond that the high end (smartphones) are now harnessing capabilities such as payment, location, presence and connectivity to provide the types of service and application more usually seen on a PC. Much of this however is predicated on the widespread availability of key technologies (such as XML and Java) and business models, both within the terminal device itself and to enable it's ability to interact with core back-end services from both the operators and the service providers.
What are these technologies, what are the business challenges, do we have the right approaches in place to enable content creation and exchange is the phone a viable computing platform and can I stop taking my laptop on business trips? This session will provide one person's view and hope to hear yours.
