xml-dev - RE: XTech 2001 (was RE: Who will maintain SAX)

["Elledge, Marion" <melledge@printing.org>]

Knowledge Technologies 2001 will replace XTech in Austin, Texas, March 4-7.
Throughout the GCA events in 2000, there has been growing interest in
technologies that support knowledge management. In Europe there were 250-300
attendees in the sessions on topic maps. At Extreme there was tremendous
interest in RDF and Topic Maps. Ontologies and semantics have also proven to
be major topics thus far. Based on the papers received for XML 2000, one
full track is devoted to Knowledge Technologies. Therefore, we at GCA,
agree that the next revolution for the Web will be the shift from an
information base to a knowledge base. And the revolution will be grounded by
emerging knowledge technologies to make the semantic web a reality.

To achieve the goal of a quality conference to address these issues, the
conference will be structured based on the input of the papers received and
on the insight of the Conference Board of Advisors. If you have suggestions
for the program, would like to submit a paper, or possibly serve on the
Board of Advisors, please contact me.

Watch the event web site for more information coming soon!
http://www2.gca.org/knowledgetechnologies/

P.S. In lieu of XTech, Jon Bosak has agreed to chair the XML Developers'
Special Interest Day at XML2000 on Monday, December 4. As with XTech, this
day will feature the latest and greatest cutting edge technologies and
advancements in support of XML and its related standards. The call for
papers for XML  Developers' Day will be posted to the list within the next
few days. 

Marion L. Elledge
Senior VP/IT
Graphic Communications Association 
melledge@gca.org
www.gca.org
703-519-8193

http://www.gca.org
http://www.IDEAlliance.org

Check out the upcoming GCA/IT events:

XML 2000
December 3-8
Washington DC
http://www.xmlusa.net

Knowledge Technologies 2001
Austin Convention Center
Austin TX
March 4-7, 2001
http://www2.gca.org/knowledgetechnologies/

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Arnold, Curt [SMTP:Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com]
> Sent:	Friday, September 29, 2000 5:24 PM
> To:	'xml-dev@lists.xml.org'
> Subject:	XTech 2001 (was RE: Who will maintain SAX)
> 
> At last year's XTech was announced that it was going to be in Austin, TX
> in March.  Knowledge Technologies 2001 is in Austin about the same time,
> so I'd guess that it must be a renamed XTech.
> 
> http://www2.gca.org/knowledgetechnologies/
> 
> It would be nice to know exactly what "Knowledge Technologies" is going to
> be.  I know that XTech 2000's attendance probably didn't meet GCA's goals
> and my guess is that Extreme XML probably didn't
> either and that they are trying to find a way to bump the attendance of
> the harder core conferences
> 
> I took a tutorial at XML 1999 and attended XTech 2000.  For shear
> spectacle, you probably couldn't beat XML 2000, however XTech 2000's
> conference material was much more significant in my opinion
> (though a much smaller target audience).
> 
> If Knowledge Technologies isn't going to be roughly equivalent to XTech,
> I'd like to know now to rethink skipping XML 2000.