TUESDAY, 9 MAY

8:30 AM - 8:40 AM | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

Patrick J. Gannon, President and CEO, OASIS

8:40 AM - 9:15 AM | OPENING KEYNOTE: ON THE ROAD TO OPEN

Presenter: Peter J. Quinn, Former CIO of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States

In too many instances, the technology enterprise (both government and the private sector) have been constructed using proprietary technologies resulting in unnavigable chasms of information and siloed operations. The cost of any enterprise today demands open standards to insure access to all and a sustainable cost structure. This keynote will look at one example of the journey to institutionalize open standards and the cultural, political, and commercial impediments encountered on the road to open.

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM | OPENING SESSION

The Goal of Interoperability: Socio-Economic Liberty
| The Business Perspective |
What does interoperability mean? It means, within a regulated domain, the goal of socio-economic liberty (optimal commerce) has been achieved by participating agents: human, software, and hardware. This presentation will examine domain regulation (standards), the socio-economic costs of regulation, and the consequence of choice within the domain, and it will present how the goal of socio-economic liberty is derived amongst the participating agents. Additional presentation details will cover requirements, standards maturity, disruption, adoption, evolution, and the consequence for authors and sponsors.
Presenter: Chuck Fenton, Principal Research Engineer, Sterling Commerce, United States

A Tool Kit for Implementing XML Schema Naming and Design Rules
| The Standards and Testing Perspectives |
This presentation will discuss a tool kit being developed at NIST that encodes XML schema Naming and Design Rules in a computer-interpretable fashion, enabling automated rule enforcement and improving schema quality.
Presenter: Joshua Lubell, Computer Scientist, NIST, United States

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | CASE STUDIES SESSION

Interoperability at Work: The Semantic and Contractual Perspectives in a Healthcare Informatics Registry
| The Semantic and Contractual Perspectives |
This presentation will show a Healthcare Informatics Registry or Registries (both ebXML and UDDI) of Healthcare Standards, Healthcare Standards Organizations, and companies whose products and services adhere to these standards. It will also offer materials to aid implementors to help spread adoption of standards.
Presenter: Rex Brooks, Executive Director, Humanmarkup.org, Inc., United States

Ontology Web Services for Interoperability in Agricultural Information Management
| The Standards and Semantic Perspectives |
Ontologies and controlled vocabularies are the facilitators of semantic services on the Internet, since they can provide the baseline for connecting distributed resources. Up-to-date, however, too many different or version-incompatible, locally applied vocabularies are in place and thus prevent wide-ranged interoperability. In the context of an initiative for coherence agricultural information management, the speaker will present his vision of how ontology Web Services will contribute to more systems interoperability in the agricultural domain.
Presenters: Boris Lauser, Knowledge Organization Systems Specialist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, Italy

UNIFI: Creating Interoperability for the Financial Industry
| The Business and Semantic Perspectives |
The financial industry has a long history of standardization, leading to multiple standards that exist in parallel. A number of standards organizations have joined forces in the UNIFI (ISO 20022) initiative to work towards more interoperability for the financial industry. The presentation will explain the UNIFI framework and the way SWIFT and its community deal with it.
Presenters: Frank Vandamme, Head of the Tools, Products and Methodologies Team, SWIFT, Belgium

OASIS BCM-EPR SC: Trading and Tracing Seafood Safely from Capture to Table
| The Infrastructure, Product, and Testing Perspectives |
This presentation will discuss how to use generic template processing in "super" portals orchestrating and organizing loosely coupled e-business components (ebXML and Web Services) in underlying legacy and expert systems through the whole supply-chain.
Presenters: Hans Arthur Kielland Aanesen, President, IT & Integration AS, Norway and Svein Tore Johnsen, CEO in CollBiz International AS and Partner in IT & Integration AS, Norway

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM | SYMPOSIUM LUNCHEON featuring Poster Presentations and Table-Top Exhibits

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | TECHNICAL SESSION

A Use-Case Driven Approach to the Development of Reusable Stylesheet Modules
| The Testing Perspective |
Developing a library of XSLT stylesheets that can operate on documents of different types is challenging. While XSLT supports modularization, it takes some experience to learn how to properly modularize XSLT. Collaborative XSLT development poses many challenges: misunderstanding of XSLT import precedence rules can lead a team to abandon logical modularization approaches; XSLT code requirements are difficult to articulate without writing the stylesheets themselves, and XSLT code can be overwhelming to review without good modularization. This presentation will describe the experiences of a team and junior engineers that created a collection of re-usable stylesheets. The presentation will review the Stylesheet Unit Test Driver that the team created and the development methodology that the team followed.
Presenter: Terrence Brady, Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis, United States

Connecting the Dots: Management of Document Relationships and Relevance with DITA Maps
| The Semantic Perspective |
While full interoperability for textual content requires related or mapped document formats, a subset of operations is possible for documents taken as a whole. A DITA map can express structural or navigational relationships between documents. In addition, a map can classify the subject matter for both documents and subjects defined in multiple formats. This presentation will discuss the relationships and classification that can be used to provide navigation for users, to manage dependencies between documents, and to support discovery based on relevance, as well as other operations that are independent of document format.
Presenter: Erik Hennum, Information Architect, IBM, United States

Integrating Strong Security Mechanisms with Queued Asynchronous Messaging for Web Services
| The Infrastructure and Product Perspective |
Queued, asynchronous messaging systems offer many advantages in the implementation of robust Web Services, both internal and external to an enterprise. These types of services often have requirements for strong security mechanisms, yet many security mechanisms are not designed with the unique requirements of asynchronous systems in mind. This talk will focus on these requirements, presenting an architectural model for authentication and authorization in queued messaging systems and proposing solutions to some of the special requirements of such systems.
Presenter: Hal Lockhart, Engineering Technologist, BEA Systems, United States

Categories of Vocabulary Compatibility
| The Semantic Perspective |
This presentation will explore in detail the different categories of vocabulary compatibility and the level of compatibility that can be established using semantic descriptions made in other compatible vocabularies.
Presenter: Dmitry Lenkov, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle, United States

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | DOES SOA HELP INTEROPERABILITY?

SOA is a broad concept that encompasses reference models, blue prints and architectural styles, as well as a plethora of vendor products and tools to help organizations build and manage SOA environments. Given this broad nature, does SOA help or hinder interoperability? Is there a common definition of what makes up a SOA, and is it concrete enough to be of use? This panel will explore what value SOA brings, what features are required for interoperability, and where SOA needs to improve.

Panelists:
Goran Zugic, Chief Architect, Semantion, Canada
Miko Matsumura, VP of Technology, Infravio, United States
Ash Parikh, Director of Development and Technology, Raining Data Corporation, United States
Robert Carpenter, Senior Program Manager, Intel Corporation, United States
Michael Evanoff, Technical Director, ManTech e-IC, United States

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM | TC LIGHTNING ROUNDS

The OASIS Symposium will feature an overview of the Technical Committees, by the TCs--lightning round updates on each OASIS Committee. It promises to be a great opportunity to learn what the TCs are accomplishing, find out the status of related work, provide input, identify areas for cross-TC communication, and build support.