Panel: Approaches for Modeling Metadata in XML

Arofan Gregory is specialist in SGML and XML-based open standards in the areas of publishing, e-commer ce, research, and statistics. Recent work includes participation in ebXML and related initiatives, and acting as a technical expert for SDMX and DDI.

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Eliot has worked with essentially every SGML- and XML-related tool relevant to document authoring, management, and production that has been produced in the past 15 years. He is a founding member of the W3C XML Working Group and Co-editor, with Charles Goldfarb and Steve Newcomb, of ISO/IEC 10744:1996, HyTime 2nd Edition.

As Senior Content Engineer at Really Strategies, Eliot leads publishers through various content management initiatives, including RSuite CMS implementations, XML and desktop publishing applications, DITA requirements and standardization, and information and process analyses. He is fluent in XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, DTD development, XSD Schema, XPath, XQuery, XInclude, Xlink, and other standards that relate to information management and publishing.

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Joshua Fox is Project Lead and Chief Technologist for the Metadata Analytics project in IBM, in which he researches and develops innovative solutions for analyzing and classifying disorganized SOA metadata. Previously, Joshua Fox was Chief Architect of Unicorn Solutions (acquired by IBM), an early leader in semantic information management software.

Fox has also served as Principal Architect and Director at Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP) and as Senior Software Architect at VocalTec.

In addition to several presentations at XML Conference, Fox has spoken at many conferences including JavaOne, WebServices Edge, and published in Dr. Dobb’s Journal, XML Journal, WebServices Journal, and others in the fields of software, metadata, and enterprise ontology. (See http://www.joshuafox.com for details.)

He received his PhD from Harvard University and his BA summa cum laude from Brandeis University.

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Lee Vetten

Lee is a Publishing Technologies Specialist of Editorial Web Production at The McGraw-Hill Companies Business Information Group, where he is responsible for maintaining XML standards and automating production workflows of published content. Lee has been Co-Chair of the PRISM working Group for 3 years, and has worked to implement the PRISM standard throughout McGraw-Hill Construction, Aviation and Platts.