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href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/grid?date=2008-05-06">Tue 06 May</a></li><li class="active"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/grid?date=2008-05-07">Wed 07 May</a></li><li><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/grid?date=2008-05-08">Thu 08 May</a></li><li><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/grid?date=2008-05-09">Fri 09 May</a></li><li><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/full" id="en_in_full_link">Full listing</a></li><li><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/personal" id="en_in_personal_link">Personal schedule</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="en_grid_topic_key"> <h3>Topics</h3> <div> <li id="topic_key_24"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/topic/24">Ajax</a></li><li id="topic_key_29"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/topic/29">Browsers</a></li><li id="topic_key_25"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/topic/25">Data and databases</a></li><li id="topic_key_19"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/topic/19">Identity</a></li><li id="topic_key_27"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/topic/27">Keynote</a></li><li id="topic_key_23"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/topic/23">Open data</a></li><li id="topic_key_20"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/topic/20">Programming</a></li><li id="topic_key_22"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/topic/22">Social networks</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="en_grid_container"> <div id="slot_grid"><div class="slot_room_title" id="room_title_17"><div>Goldsmiths 1</div></div><div class="slot topic24" id="slot371"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched542"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/542" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 11:00 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1100"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1145"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/542" class="url uid">JavaScript: The Good Parts</a></span> <span class="description">Douglas Crockford (Yahoo!)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic29" id="slot374"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched593"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/593" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 11:45 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1145"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1230"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/593" class="url uid">Browsers on the move: The year in review, the year ahead</a></span> <span class="description">Michael(tm) Smith (W3C)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic24" id="slot377"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched478"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/478" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 14:00 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1400"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1445"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/478" class="url uid">Optimizing Ajax Applications</a></span> <span class="description">Bob Buffone (Nexaweb Technologies, Inc.)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic24" id="slot380"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched633"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/633" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 14:45 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1445"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1530"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/633" class="url uid">Agnostic AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and Data</a></span> <span class="description">Clinton Smullen (University of Tennessee) et al</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic24" id="slot389"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched546"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/546" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 16:00 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1600"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1645"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/546" class="url uid">Going full circle: Giving Web Applications and Widgets access to device and user data</a></span> <span class="description">Arve Bersvendsen (Opera Software ASA)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic20" id="slot392"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched598"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/598" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 16:45 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1645"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1730"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/598" class="url uid">Validator.nu — Validation 2.0</a></span> <span class="description">Henri Sivonen (Henri Sivonen)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot_room_title" id="room_title_18"><div>Goldsmiths 2</div></div><div class="slot topic23" id="slot372"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched597"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/597" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 11:00 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1100"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1145"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/597" class="url uid">Using socially authored content to provide new routes through existing content archives</a></span> <span class="description">Rob Lee (Rattle Research)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic23" id="slot375"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched576"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/576" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 11:45 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1145"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1230"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/576" class="url uid">Using Trackback to Support Citation Notification Services</a></span> <span class="description">Brian Matthews (STFC)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic23" id="slot378"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched521"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/521" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 14:00 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1400"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1445"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/521" class="url uid">Here Be Dragons: Knowing Where the World Ends</a></span> <span class="description">Leigh Dodds (Ingenta)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic23" id="slot381"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched561"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/561" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 14:45 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1445"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1530"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/561" class="url uid">Linked Data Deployment</a></span> <span class="description">Daniel Lewis (OpenLink Software)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot" id="slot390"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> 16:00 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1600"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1645"></abbr> <span class="summary"><acronym title="To be confirmed">TBC</acronym></span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic23" id="slot393"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched525"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/525" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 16:45 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1645"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1730"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/525" class="url uid">Open Mashups : User generated applications for the masses</a></span> <span class="description">Fabrice Desré (Orange Labs)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot_room_title" id="room_title_19"><div>Goldsmiths 3</div></div><div class="slot topic25" id="slot373"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched642"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/642" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 11:00 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1100"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1145"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/642" class="url uid">XML@10: A Decade of XML</a></span> <span class="description">Liam Quin (W3C)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic25" id="slot376"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched498"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/498" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 11:45 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1145"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1230"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/498" class="url uid">XQuery Update: An Update</a></span> <span class="description">Jim Melton (Oracle Corp.)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic25" id="slot379"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched493"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/493" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 14:00 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1400"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1445"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/493" class="url uid">Will XML Schema 1.1 solve the problem?</a></span> <span class="description">Michael Kay (Saxonica Limited)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic25" id="slot382"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched530"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/530" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 14:45 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1445"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1530"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/530" class="url uid">Versioning XML with XML Schema</a></span> <span class="description">David Orchard (BEA Systems)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic25" id="slot391"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched605"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/605" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 16:00 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1600"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1645"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/605" class="url uid">XForms, REST, XQuery...and skimming</a></span> <span class="description">Mark Birbeck (webBackplane, W3C Invited Expert)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic19 topic23 topic20 topic22" id="slot394"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched655"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/655" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 16:45 <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T1645"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1730"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/655" class="url uid">Building the Real-Time Web</a></span> <span class="description">Blaine Cook (romeda.org)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic27" id="slot370"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched648"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/648" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 9:00 Plenary <br/> Room: <span class="location"><strong>Goldsmiths 1 & 2</strong></span><br/> <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T0900"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T0945"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/648" class="url uid">Why "open" matters — from innovation to commoditisation</a></span> <span class="description">Simon Wardley (Independent)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot topic27" id="slot448"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> <div class="en_session_psched" id="psched649"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/add/649" class="en_psched_add" title="Add to your personal schedule"><img src="/web/20080511140022im_/http://2008.xtech.org/images/unpicked.gif" width="16" height="16" alt="Add to your personal schedule"/></a></div> 9:45 Plenary <br/> Room: <span class="location"><strong>Goldsmiths 1 & 2</strong></span><br/> <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080507T0945"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="20080507T1030"></abbr> <span class="summary"><a href="/web/20080511140022/http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/649" class="url uid">Opening keynote</a></span> <span class="description">David Recordon (Six Apart)</span> </div> </div> <div class="slot" id="slot430"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> 10:30 Coffee break<br/> Room: <span class="location"><strong>The O Bar</strong></span><br/> </div> </div> <div class="slot" id="slot432"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> 12:30 Lunch<br/> Room: <span class="location"><strong>The O Bar</strong></span><br/> </div> </div> <div class="slot" id="slot434"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> 15:30 Coffee break<br/> Room: <span class="location"><strong>The O Bar</strong></span><br/> </div> </div> <div class="slot" id="slot442"><div class="slot_detail vevent"> 18:15 Evening reception sponsored by JustSystems<br/> Room: <span class="location"><strong>The O Bar</strong></span><br/> </div> </div></div><div id="slot_popup_store"><div class="slot_popup" id="slot371_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 11:00–11:45 (45m) Ajax </div> <div class="en_popup_name">JavaScript: The Good Parts</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Douglas Crockford (Yahoo!)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">In JavaScript there is a beautiful, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders. My intention here is to expose the goodness in JavaScript, an outstanding dynamic programming language. Within the language is an elegant subset that is vastly superior to the language as a whole, being more reliable, readable, and maintainable.</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot374_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 11:45–12:30 (45m) Browsers </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Browsers on the move: The year in review, the year ahead</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Michael(tm) Smith (W3C)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">In the year since XTech 2007, changes of interest to Web developers have been made to Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer and the engines that power them — added/improved support for standards (and non-standards), new versions for mobile devices, and more. This session takes a look back at what the changes have been — as well as taking a look ahead to see what may be on the way next.</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot377_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 14:00–14:45 (45m) Ajax </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Optimizing Ajax Applications</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Bob Buffone (Nexaweb Technologies, Inc.)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">Best Practices Deployed to Performance-tune Large Ajax Applications </div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot380_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 14:45–15:30 (45m) Ajax </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Agnostic AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and Data</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Clinton Smullen (University of Tennessee) et al</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">An experimental study of the relative performances of a traditional HTML application and a set of comparable AJAX applications that use several different update data methodologies: partial HTML, XML, JSON, and CSV (comma separated values). A wide range of response sizes are included. Advantages and disadvantages of each are discussed, as are applicability in special cases such as mobile clients.</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot389_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 16:00–16:45 (45m) Ajax </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Going full circle: Giving Web Applications and Widgets access to device and user data</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Arve Bersvendsen (Opera Software ASA)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">Web Applications (and widgets) have historically had little or no access to the device and the user's data, making it a safe, but boring haven. This is about to change. This presentation will focus on securely allowing access to the device and its data through natively integrated components and native JavaScript plugins. </div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot392_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 16:45–17:30 (45m) Programming </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Validator.nu — Validation 2.0</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Henri Sivonen (Henri Sivonen)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">Validator.nu is an (X)HTML5 validator and a RELAX NG and Schematron-based validator for generic XML. The architecture of the software, its RESTful XML/JSON Web service API and its reusable HTML5 parsing library are presented.</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot372_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 11:00–11:45 (45m) Open data </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Using socially authored content to provide new routes through existing content archives</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Rob Lee (Rattle Research)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">By looking at how we can use sites like Wikipedia, Freebase and DBpedia as authoritative sources of content and meta-data and utilising services such as del.icio.us to provide a measure of popularity and currency (_what_ is being discussed at _this_ point in time) we can generate additional meta-data that can be used to provide new routes through existing content archives.</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot375_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 11:45–12:30 (45m) Open data </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Using Trackback to Support Citation Notification Services</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Brian Matthews (STFC)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">We motivate and propose using extensions to the well-known Trackback protocol to support the notification of citation information between repositories of research outputs, particularly academic publications and scientific data. </div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot378_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 14:00–14:45 (45m) Open data </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Here Be Dragons: Knowing Where the World Ends</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Leigh Dodds (Ingenta)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">This presentation will look at the process of publishing open data and review issues surrounding stability of both data and vocabularies, as well providing some recommendations for how to publish open data.</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot381_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 14:45–15:30 (45m) Open data </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Linked Data Deployment</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Daniel Lewis (OpenLink Software)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">The wider developer community is increasing its understanding of the "Web of Data," as users demand the right to own their data. Unanswered questions include how to fit this data into other structures and how to link across them. We will discuss what Linked Data is; what it tries to fix; hurdles in developing a Linked Data system; and how Linked Data fits with the Data Space philosophy.</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot390_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 16:00–16:45 (45m) Open data </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Session </div> <div class="en_popup_desc">To be confirmed</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot393_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 16:45–17:30 (45m) Open data </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Open Mashups : User generated applications for the masses</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Fabrice Desré (Orange Labs)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">Open Mashups is a complete tool suite empowering non-programmers to create their own applications by assembling existing functionnal components. Unlike existing solutions, the system is fully expandable and configurable: it uses code generators to target various platforms and devices (like mobile phones, web pages or desktop widgets) and provides a pluggable components model.</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot373_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 11:00–11:45 (45m) Data and databases </div> <div class="en_popup_name">XML@10: A Decade of XML</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Liam Quin (W3C)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">XML was published as a W3C Recommendation in February, 1998, a little over ten years ago. It was a huge success. What made it do so well, and what can we learn from ithis? What were some of the milestones of XML history? And how are things looking for the future? </div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot376_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 11:45–12:30 (45m) Data and databases </div> <div class="en_popup_name">XQuery Update: An Update</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Jim Melton (Oracle Corp.)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">The XQuery Update Facility is an eagerly awaited W3C standard for updating XML data. This important addition to the XPath/XQuery/XSLT suite of XML processing languages, in preparation for almost three years, has almost reached final Recommendation status. An example-driven close examination of the language, this talk also looks into likely further enhancements. </div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot379_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 14:00–14:45 (45m) Data and databases </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Will XML Schema 1.1 solve the problem?</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Michael Kay (Saxonica Limited)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">XML Schema is in an odd position: everyone is using it, but no-one really likes it. It's clearly fit for purpose, or people wouldn't be using it; but it attracts complaints both because of its immense complexity and because there are basic features that it doesn't provide. Version 1.1 in on the way: this talk surveys the new features and tries to assess whether they will solve the problem.</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot382_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 14:45–15:30 (45m) Data and databases </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Versioning XML with XML Schema</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">David Orchard (BEA Systems)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">Web services and XML extensibility and Versioning This talk will go into the details of what can and can't be done to enable extensibility and versioning of XML Schemas, documents and Web services. A detailed analysis of the versioning mechanisms in Schema, and the pros and cons of different versioning techniques is provided. XML Schema 1.1's vast improvements in versioning will be described.</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot391_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 16:00–16:45 (45m) Data and databases </div> <div class="en_popup_name">XForms, REST, XQuery...and skimming</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Mark Birbeck (webBackplane, W3C Invited Expert)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">Applications built on 'skimming' principles are very loosely-coupled, and can run on just about any server-side architecture.</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot394_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 16:45–17:30 (45m) Identity, Open data, Programming, Social networks </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Building the Real-Time Web</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Blaine Cook (romeda.org)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">Real-time interaction is becoming a necessity on the ever-more dynamic Web. Jabber is a powerful established protocol, already used by over 10 million people worldwide, and ideally suited to web application development. Whether you're an API developer or writing client apps, this workshop offers real experience and practical advice.</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot370_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 9:00–9:45 (45m) Keynote </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Why "open" matters — from innovation to commoditisation</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">Simon Wardley (Independent)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">This session looks at some of the main themes behind Web 2.0, commoditisation, innovation, portability and enterprise 2.0. It proposes that a common pattern exists behind them all, and that the "open" meme is a significant driving force behind these changes. </div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot448_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 9:45–10:30 (45m) Keynote </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Opening keynote</div> <div class="en_popup_speaker">David Recordon (Six Apart)</div> <div class="en_popup_desc">Details to follow</div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot430_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 10:30–11:00 (30m) </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Break: Coffee break </div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot432_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 12:30–14:00 (1h 30m) </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Break: Lunch </div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot434_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 15:30–16:00 (30m) </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Break: Coffee break </div> </div> </div> <div class="slot_popup" id="slot442_p"><div class="en_popup_content"> <div class="en_popup_time"> 18:15–19:30 (1h 15m) </div> <div class="en_popup_name">Break: Evening reception sponsored by JustSystems </div> <div class="en_popup_desc">Sponsored by JustSystems</div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div> <div id="en_footerwrap"> <div id="en_footer">Copyright © 2001-2008 IDEAlliance Inc. 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