Conference Programme (2017)

Saturday, June 10th

Sunday, June 11th

Speakers & Authors

Andrew Sales

Andrew Sales

Andrew's background is in desktop publishing, translation and editing. He has specialised in XML and related technologies since 2000. He designs, writes and documents DTDs and schemas for publishers and other users of document-based XML. He provides XML and workflow consultancy and has introduced digital-first workflows. He creates best-practice content models and focuses on validation and quality assurance as the basis of sound markup-based production. He is skilled in manipulating and validating XML using XSLT, XQuery, Schematron, Java and (parser-based) Python.

Andrew contributes to international standardisation as an individual expert member of IST/41, the Technical Committee of BSI (the UK member of ISO and IEC) responsible for XML and related standards.

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Bert Willems

Bert Willems

Bert is a Product Architect at FontoXML. He is passionate about JavaScript, Web technology, Digital Humanities and Computer Sciences

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Charles Foster

Charles Foster

Chair and Host of XML London.

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Debbie Lockett

Debbie Lockett

Debbie joined the Saxonica development team in 2014 following post-doctoral research in Mathematics at the University of Leeds. Debbie has worked on performance benchmarking, on which she co-authored a paper which she jointly-presented at XML London 2014, and on developing the tools for creating Saxonica's product documentation. She is currently working on the implementation of XQuery 3.1 features.

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Deborah Lapeyre

Deborah Lapeyre

Debbie is an architect and developer of XML Tag Sets (vocabularies) who designs and writes the schemas (DTD, XSD, RELAX NG) that model those vocabularies. Been working with XML, XSLT, and XPath since their inception and with SGML (XML's predecessor) since 1984. Most recently, Debbie serves as the XML-hands for (and as a member of) the NISO JATS Standing Committee, which maintains the JATS vocabularies (Journal Article Tag Suite). JATS is the ANSI/NISO successor to the NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite. The three ANSI/NISO Z39.96-201 tag sets (Archiving, Publishing, and Authoring) are used by publishers, archives, aggregators, and libraries worldwide for tagging journal articles. She also maintains the new NLM book vocabulary BITS (Book Interchange Tag Suite), which is used to tag STM books and book-like material.

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Gerrit Imsieke

Gerrit Imsieke

As a managing director of le-tex publishing services GmbH, Gerrit Imsieke is responsible for XML technologies and business development. Gerrit has the privilege of being able to devote almost half of his time to actual software development, particularly in the XProc and XSLT 2+ languages.

Gerrit successfully made up for his abysmal sales skills by releasing the open-source, open-standards conversion/validation framework transpect. It is built on XProc, XSLT, Relax NG, and Schematron, and it attracted many new customers that like to avoid vendor lock-in by adopting open-source, open-standard solutions.

Gerrit is currently involved in the standardization of NISO Z39.102-201x, STS: Standards Tag Suite and XProc 3.0.

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Hans-Juergen Rennau

Hans-Juergen Rennau

Hans is a developer with a keen interest in XML technologies in general and their not so obvious potential in particular. Hans is the author of TopicTools (a lightweight framework for the development of XQuery command-line tools) as well as FOXpath ( an expression language for navigating the file system and other resource trees).

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Jirka Kosek

Jirka Kosek

Jirka is the Chairman of XML Prague as well as a freelance consultant, lecturer, writer, university teacher, open source developer and standards contributer.

He has written many books and articles about XML and Web technologies and also offers training and consulting services around XML and Linked Data technologies.

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Kal Ahmed

Kal Ahmed

Kal is the founder of Networked Planet which helps organisations of all sizes make the best use of their data, content and knowledge.

He has long experience of working on projects and products related to both document and knowledge management and helping organizations to make better use of their data and their internal knowledge capital.

Kal is the Lead developer of BrightstarDB (http://brightstardb.com/) a .NET-native RDF triple store with unique .NET data binding features.

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Mark Dunn

Mark Dunn

Mark learned structured markup as a lexicographer on the Oxford English Dictionary, introducing automated quality assurance tests for dictionary entries and migrating the data set to XML when its legacy editorial system was replaced.

He now manages a team of Content Architects at Oxford University Press, providing tools, processes, documentation, and strategic guidance to support production and publication of OUP’s academic and professional content.

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Michael Kay

Michael Kay

Michael is the Founder / Director of Saxonica, author of Saxon, editor of the W3C XSLT specification, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and holds a phD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

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Nic Gibson

Nic Gibson

Nic is an independent consultant and trainer specialising in strategic digital publishing technologies and XML-driven publishing. Over the last few years he has worked for major publishers and international bodies as an architect and consultant on projects utilising digital publishing and web technologies.

Along with his consultancy and contract work, he provides training and mentoring services for companies and individuals looking to improve their technology skill base

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O'Neil Delpratt

O'Neil Delpratt

O'Neil Delpratt joined Saxonica from a research project at the University of Leicester in 2010. He is a co-developer of the Saxon product, with specific responsibility for Saxon on .NET and the C/C++/PHP platform (Saxon/C).

Before joining Saxonica, he completed his post-graduate studies at the University of Leicester. His thesis title was “In-memory Representations of XML documents”, which coincided with a C++ software development of a memory efficient DOM implementation, called Succinct DOM.

O'Neil regularly publishes and presents papers at various XML conferences and is an invited expert on the W3C XQuery Working Group.

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Robin La Fontaine

Robin La Fontaine

Robin is the founder and CEO of DeltaXML. He holds an Engineering Science degree from Oxford University and an MSc in Computer Science. His background includes computer aided design software and he has been addressing the challenges and opportunities associated with information change for many years.

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Sandro Cirulli

Sandro Cirulli

Sandro currently works as Lead Language Technologist in the Dictionaries department of Oxford University Press (OUP). Since he started working at OUP in 2012 he has been involved in several projects, including Oxford Global Language Solutions, Oxford Global Languages and Oxford Dictionaries API. He has mainly been dealing with the technical sides of these projects which included data conversion, system architecture and DevOps.

Sandro is a certified Jenkins engineer, co-maintainer of XSpec and a co-organiser of DevOps Oxford Meetup.

In 2011 Sandro graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a Master's in Computer Science. His Master's Dissertation focussed on Role and Location Based Access Control Using Semantic Web Technologies and was awarded the Big Oxford Computer Company (BOCC) Computer Systems Development Postgraduate Award for the best dissertation in computing.

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Shani Chachamu

Shani Chachamu

Shani is a Content Architect at Oxford University Press, working mainly in law digital publishing. Before that she worked in OUP journals. As a Content Architect her responsibilities include writing transformations for content and metadata, QA rules in Schematron, and maintaining documentation in DITA. She also helps to maintain an XML database that holds metadata about items of law content and the relationships between them.

Shani studied English at Oxford.

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Sharon Adler

Sharon Adler

Ms. Adler began her decades old journey with Markup in the late 70’s by developing a markup vocabulary for the Duke University course catalogs. With a clear emphasis on print and publishing, this work led her into the development of SGML as chair of the GCA GenCode Committee (merged with two other committees that formed the basis of the ANSI/ISO X3J6 committee). After SGML came the late 80’s and 90’s and DSSSL, an ISO standardized language for expressing high-end sophisticated formatting results for print and other media. From 1985 to 1992, Ms. Adler held several key positions with IBM in Boulder, Colorado, where she was instrumental in the development of standards-based authoring and document management tools. Prior to that, she was a senior manager for Boeing Computer Services in Vienna, Virginia. From there to EBT/Inso where XML and its associated standards were of primary importance. Ms. Adler started XSLT as an XML-based DSSSL with the focus on transformations. Formatting was under the purview of XSL formatting objects. During this time Ms Adler was a senior manager at IBM Research. Her teams focus on research topics related to standards, analytics, and Web Services. She retired from IBM Research in 2010 as an RSM Emerita. She has been chair of the XSLT WG at W3C since its inception.

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Steven Pemberton

Steven Pemberton

Steven does research in the architecture of computing systems, with the ultimate aim of making them more human-oriented; He co-designed ABC, the programming language that Python was based on and was one of the first handful of people on the European Internet in 1988. Steven has been involved with the web since its beginning, organising two workshops at the first web conference in 1994, and has been chair of several working groups at W3C, designing new web technologies, including HTML, CSS, XForms, RDFa, and many others.

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Terry Blake

Terry Blake

Terry is the Government Digital Services Director at Williams Lea Tag / TSO

Terry leads TSO's technology team which is made up of more than 70 developers and PRINCE2 qualified project managers with capability in all the key web development tools. The team includes Semantic Web specialists who have contributed to some of the key Wemantic Web developments in government. Terry has more than 20 years experience of providing technical solutions in publishing gained through the implementation of a large number of enterprise level publishing systems for a range of public and private sector organisations.

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Tony Graham

Tony Graham

Tony Graham is a Senior Architect with Antenna House, Inc.

Previously he was an independent consultant specialising in XSL, XSLT and XML. He has been working with markup since 1991, with XML since 1996 and with XSL/XSLT since 1998.

He is Chair of the Print and Page Layout Community Group at the W3C and previously an invited expert on the W3C XML Print and Page Layout Working Group (XPPL) defining the XSL-FO specification, as well as an acknowledged expert in XSLT, developer of the open source xmlroff XSL formatter, a committer to both the XSpec and Juxy XSLT testing frameworks, the author of "Unicode: A Primer", and a qualified trainer.

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