Notice: The call for participation is now closed. Thank you for the overwhelming response, up nearly 40% from 2006!
- Proposal deadline:
- Friday 31 August 2007
- Presentation length:
- 45 or 90 minutes for regular presentations; 2 hours or 4 hours for training/tutorial presentations
- Proposal submission URL:
- http://2007.xmlconference.org/user/proposal/new/4
- Required information:
- Target track, speaker information, and a short abstract.
IDEAlliance invites presentation proposals for XML 2007 to be held from Monday 3 December to Wednesday 5 December in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. This conference — the world’s largest and longest-running conference devoted to XML — offers an unparalleled opportunity to meet and network with others attendees who are implementing or designing projects using XML to become more productive using XML and other structured information.
Why you should participate
The XML Conference continues to be the one place and time each year that covers the XML landscape and presents
- Well-established technologies for today’s applications;
- Breaking research and new products, technologies and standards for tomorrow’s development; and
- Case studies and proven best practices for practical, measurable business benefits.
Focus and Themes
This year the XML Conference’s theme is XML in Practice focusing on Open Data and Documents: Practical methods for information sharing through open data and document standards and formats.
Now that XML is used widely around the world, it is essential to focus on how people are using XML and other markup technologies right now to streamline publishing, build web applications, integrate business processes and drive real business return on investment.
This year, we are especially interested in proposals in the following areas:
- Case studies of successful (or failed) XML and other markup applications in publishing, the web, and the enterprise.
- Innovative best practices you’ve discovered for deploying XML and related technologies.
- How you’ve made the business case for the use of XML Documents in your organization.
- Interoperability use cases where XML was used to bridge heterogeneous platforms within an organization and across organization boundaries
- Hands-on, drop-in training and short tutorial sessions for specific products, technologies, and standards (note: starting in 2007, these take place during the main program and do not require separate registration).
- How organizations use XML in the health care and magazine publishing industries.
Audience
The target audience for XML 2007 includes
- Developers working with XML technologies
- Architects designing XML applications
- Business Analysts specifying requirements for XML applications
- Project Managers leading XML-based projects
- Enterprise Architects designing XML-based architectures
- Line-of-Business Managers involved in XML technology and design decisions
Tracks
The conference is divided into four tracks:
- Documents and Publishing — Authoring, managing, integrating in business processes, enabling internal or external workflows and publishing information using XML: DITA, DocBook, XSL, ODF, Ecma Office Open XML, XHTML, creating your own vocabularies and much, much more.
- XML on the Web — Reaching the world with XML: AJAX, messaging, blogging, RSS/Atom, Semantic Web, folksonomies, transformations, opening up repositories, JSON, and other late breaking technologies.
- Enterprise XML — XML within an organization and across organization boundaries: data at rest (such as databases and configuration) and data in motion (such as web services, legacy system integration, workflows, forms and messaging) with additional focus on bridging heterogeneous platforms.
- XML Training — Drop-in hands-on training and tutorial workshops for all markup users, from beginner to advanced, covering covering either specific topics such as web APIs, schema creation, object data binding, XSLT XQuery or other XML-enabled languages (such as perl, Ruby, .NET, Java, Python), development tools, or the description of overall XML-based systems used in real-case scenarios that demonstrate practical use of Open Data and Documents and information sharing.
Submission Information
When you submit your proposal online, we’ll ask you for the following:
- A short abstract of no more than 50 words
- A one-page outline covering the key concepts and topics
- Recommended track for the session
- Biography including organizational affiliation and title
We will submit your proposal for peer review, and will let you know the status in September. If we accept your proposal, we will request a full paper (in HTML or PDF format) in November, shortly before the conference. You are responsible for ensuring that your presentation includes no copyrighted material used without permission.
Benefits and Responsibilities
By being a presenter at XML 2007 you will
- agree to attend the XML 2007 Conference, where you will receive free registration (limit one per presentation: discounts are available for co-presenters).
- agree to provide a copy of your presentation and allow IDEAlliance to make it available to all XML 2007 attendees and to the IDEAlliance XML Network of more than 8,000 individuals — to encourage exchange of information and additional work
- accept responsibility for paying all of your own travel-related expenses for XML 2007
We look forward to seeing you in Boston this December!
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