[ANN] XML Prague Speakers announced and Call for Posters

[Jim Fuller <jim.fuller@xmlprague.cz>]

The XML Prague 2012 conference will include two full days of single track
sessions. These will take place on Saturday and Sunday (February 11-12, 2012)
, this year including a preconference day on preceding Friday
(February 10, 2012).

 XML Prague
 http://www.xmlprague.cz

 XML Prague preconference day
 http://www.xmlprague.cz/2012/pre-conference-friday.html

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Sessions
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We are happy to announce speakers for XML Prague 2012.  The quality of
submissions
were extremely high this year and we would like to thank everyone who
took the time
and effort to submit a paper.

  Opening Keynote - Jeni Tennison

  The eX Markup Language? - Eric Van der Vlist

  XML and HTML Cross-Pollination: A Bridge Too Far? - Robin Berjon and
Norman Walsh

  What XML can learn from HTML; also known as XML5 - Anne Van Kesteren

  Panel discussion on HTML/XML convergence - Norman Walsh

  XProc: Beyond application/xml - Vojtěch Toman

  Understanding NVDL - the Anatomy of an Open Source XProc/XSLT
implementation of NVDL - George Bina

  JSONiq: XQuery for JSON, JSON for XQuery - Jonathan Robie, Matthias
Brantner, Daniela Florescu, Ghislain Fourny and Til
Westmann

  Corona: Managing and querying XML and JSON via REST - Jason Hunter

  Treating JSON as a subset of XML: Using XForms to read and submit
JSON - Steven Pemberton

  RESTful XQuery - Standardised XQuery 3.0 Annotations for REST - Adam Retter

  Compiling XQuery code into Javascript instructions using XSLT- Alain Couthures

  Implementing an XQuery/XSLT hybrid - Evan Lenz

  Transform.XQ: A Transformation Library for XQuery 3.0 - John Snelson

  Building Bridges from Java to XQuery- Charles Foster

  My first XSLT editor - Tony Graham

  A Wiki-based System for Schema and Data Evolution - Lorenzo Bossi
and Alberto Trombetta

  Standards update – XPath/XSLT/XQuery 3.0 - Michael Kay and Jonathan Robie

  Closing keynote - Michael Sperberg-McQueen

As XML Prague is an intense 2 days on a single track we urge attendees
and speakers alike to come prepared to engage, challenge and cross
pollinate ideas, we ask everyone to take a little time with the
sessions above to get familiar with the terrain and come armed with
questions, what you would like to see in the future and in general
your great ideas.

We will be releasing the final schedule in the next few weeks.

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Call for Posters
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XMLPrague 2012 is welcoming posters submissions to the conference topics:

    Is it a time to refactor XML? - MicroXML, XML5 and other approaches
    Semantics on the Web - Is there still place for XML in a minefield
full of microformats, microdata and RDFa?
    Converge or convert? - HTML5 vs. XHTML, JSON vs. XML, RDFa vs. microdata
    Managing, processing and analyzing "Big XML data"
    Syntax and power upgraded - new possibilities of XPath/XQuery/XSLT 3.0
    Current advances in XML

Submissions must be delivered to the dedicated email address of
poster@xmlprague.cz on January 18th.

Each submission should consist of

    an abstract (up to 300 words long)
    author(s) name(s) and affiliation
    an optional link to the poster, author homepage or other relevant page

For inspiration, see the last year's posters page at XMLPrague 2011 :: Posters.

All proposals will be submitted for review by a peer review panel made
up of the XML Prague Program Committee. Submissions will be chosen
based on interest, applicability, technical merit, and technical
correctness.

Important Dates:

    January 18th - End of Call for Posters
    January 20th - Notification on acceptance/rejection of posters to authors

If you have any question regarding submission process please contact
Petr Cimprich at petr.cimprich@xmlprague.cz.

http://www.xmlprague.cz/2012/call-for-papers.html

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Registration & Questions
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Now is the time to register

http://www.xmlprague.cz/2012/registration.html

If you have any questions feel free to contact me or info@xmlprague.cz.

Looking forward to seeing everyone this year.

on behalf,
 XML Prague 2012 Committee

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