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Introduction to XML

XML provides a powerful way to store persistent, document-type data. In this way, XML is a replacement for SGML. This course introduces you to the Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) and gives you an idea of its potential and how companies are using it to solve their document management and distribution problems. First, the instructor presents several case studies showing how XML has been used to make SGML conversion easier, delivery on the Web more useable, and authoring more intuitive. Next, the standard itself is covered, followed by a discussion of areas where XML can be used to solve document management problems. You leave this course with an understanding of the standard and its syntax.
 

Objectives:

• Learn the purpose of XML
• Learn how the XML syntax differs from SGML and HTML
• Understand the evolution of the standard
• Learn how others have converted their structured SGML databases into intelligentsophisticated websites
   

Prerequisites:

Working knowledge of HTML
 

Instructor:

Michael Hahn

Michael Hahn is a Senior Consultant for Architag Solutions and instructor for Architag University.  He has more than twenty years' experience in information technologies and has spent the last six years analyzing data, writing and evaluating Document Type Definitions (DTDs), and troubleshooting documents and SGML-based publishing systems.  In addition, he has taught a variety of introductory and advanced courses in SGML and XML for professional organizations, commercial publishers, manufacturers, federal agencies, and software publishers.

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Information Product Development: Enabling Knowledge-based Systems

Strictly Limited to 30 Participants!
Two-Day Course

Mechanisms for selecting, identifying, and organizing data and information are critical to finding and using it later. These later uses may be for the same, but are more often for different purposes than those for which the data and information were originally created. Recent business theories related to issues such as innovation and intellectual asset management are leading to the view that business data and information are assets and that they need to be handled accordingly by companies.

Through a series of in-depth presentations and interactive group activities, participants in this workshop will:

• Examine the relationships between real workplace needs and the data, information, and knowledge created within an organization every day.
• Practice methods for identifying, describing, and categorizing existing data and information resources.
• Learn about methods for automatically identifying, describing, and categorizing existing data and information resources.
• Develop a knowledge-based information management solution for a real workplace problem.
   

Prerequisites:

None
 

Instructors:

Joseph Busch, Mark Butler, Ron Daniel and Paul O'Leary

Joseph Busch, Vice President for Information Product Development, DATAFUSION, Inc.
Joseph is a leading authority in the field of information science. His focus is on productizing DATAFUSION's digital library technologies for real-world applications. Joseph comes to DATAFUSION from the Getty Information Institute, where he was a Program Manager for ten years. He has been widely published in the field of information science, and maintains active participation in key professional organizations and standards committees. He has also brought information software products to market, and has extensive project management experience. Prior to joining the Getty, Joseph was a Manager at Price Waterhouse in their Boston office. He earned a B.A. from Portland State University and a Master of Library Science degree from the State University of New York, Albany.

Mark Butler, Information Scientist, DATAFUSION, Inc.
Mark leads the design and development of the DATAFUSION metathesaurus and metadata repositories. He coordinates the development of tools to automate resource discovery, descriptive metadata, and classification. Mark earned a B.A. in Political Science, and a Masters in Library and Information Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He is presently completing his Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies. Prior to moving to California, he was a Vice President at the Roper Organization, managing the production of Roper Reports, a syndicated service of national in-person surveys.

Ron Daniel, Senior Information Scientist, DATAFUSION, Inc.
Ron is an information standards leader. He is responsible for implementing the XML architecture for DATAFUSION repositories and KnowledgeMaps™, DATAFUSION's proprietary data visualization scheme. Before coming to DATAFUSION, Ron was a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was involved in projects addressing the lab's need for a large-scale, long-duration information infrastructure. He is an active participant in the digital library research community, specializing in identifiers and metadata, with a number of publications and invited presentations to his credit. Ron also represents DATAFUSION on a number of standards committees focussed on those areas, such as the Dublin Core effort and the W3C's Resource Description Framework. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and was a post-doctoral research associate at Cambridge University before returning to the USA and working at Los Alamos.

Paul O'Leary, Senior Information Scientist, DATAFUSION, Inc.
Paul leads the design of the DATAFUSION metathesaurus repository. He is an expert on vocabulary resources and also leads the development of XML tools for processing vocabularies for loading into DATAFUSION repositories. Prior to joining DATAFUSION, Paul developed search agents and knowledge bases for information retrieval and filtering applications in the Biomedical and Transportation industries. He is completing a doctorate at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley on retrieval system design and standards for electronic text systems.

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Metadata for Digital Libraries

What are the different types of Metadata that a library needs in order to manage the parts of its collection that are in digital form?  In this introductory workshop, participants will learn about the importance of descriptive, administrative, structural, and intellectual metadata; metadata standards developments; the history and importance of the Dublin Core; and pilot projects such as MOA2 and REACH.  They will learn the difference between semantics, structure, and syntax.  They will learn about best practices for this area, and about efforts to create guidelines on the subject.  And they will learn about related issues such as scanning, and delivery versus archiving.  The workshop will focus on digital libraries involving scanned images, but much of the discussion will be relevant to other types of material.
 

Prerequisites:

None.  Instructor assumes students are familiar with digital information.
 

Instructor:

Howard Besser

Howard Besser is an Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Education & Information where he teaches courses and does research on multimedia, image databases, digital libraries, and the social and cultural impact of new information technologies.

Dr. Besser has been involved with the Dublin Core metadata standard since its inception. For the past year he has been defining the structural and administrative metadata needed to create distributed interoperable libraries of digital surrogates of archival materials as part of the National Digital Library Federation's Making of America II  testbed project.  He is also a member of the Metadata Committee of the joint US/European Community Digital Library Collaboratory.

Dr. Besser consults widely on automation projects for libraries, museums, and archives.  He has authored dozens of articles in a wide variety of information technology and cultural heritage journals.  And he is a frequent speaker at professional conferences.

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Second Generation IntraNet Development

Is your Intranet falling short in any of these areas?

• Users are having difficulty finding what they need
• Too many irrelevant hits are being returned
• Organization has databases of information that are not available via the intranet
• The same intranet content is presented to all users

The workshop was excellent -- well organized, adequately focused and very useful. 
   Svetla Baykoncseva - American Chemical Society
 

Prerequisites:

 None
 

Instructors:

Howard McQueen and Jean E. DeMatteo

Howard McQueen is CEO of McQueen Consulting and Jean  E. DeMatteo is Director of Educational Programs.  Howard and Jean have been working with libraries and research centers since 1985.  Today,McQueen Consulting specializes in IntraNet development with an emphasis on Application Development and Content Management.  See www.mcq.com for a detailed description of our services, client list and schedule of upcoming seminars. Howard is also Editor of "IntraNet Professional", a newsletter written for Information Professionals and Content Managers.  See www.mcq.com/IP/ for abstracts and supplemental material, not included in print.