International Symposium on
Quality Assurance and Quality Control in XML
Monday August 6, 2012
Hotel Europa, Montréal, Canada
What is Good XML? How Can We Tell? A one-day discussion of issues relating to Quality Control and Quality Assurance in the XML environment.
XML systems and software are complex and constantly changing. XML documents are highly varied, may be large or small, and often have complex life-cycles. In this challenging environment quality is difficult to define, measure, or control, yet the justifications for using XML often include promises or implications relating to quality.
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The day will begin with an introductory overview of quality-control issues in complex XML workflows by Dale Waldt of LexisNexis, followed by a discussion of quality control of schemas and vocabulary definitions from Eric van der Vlist of Dyomedea. Case studies reporting on quality assurance techniques used by the U.S. National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central, Portico, Scholars Portal, and the American Chemical Society make up the central part of the day. Steve DeRose of OpenAmplify will discuss ways in which text analytics tools can change the boundaries of the validatable, discussing both existing technology and open challenges. The final part of the day is devoted to an open-mike discussion among symposium participants and to a concluding summary and round-up of the day by Mary McRae.
Schedule
| 8:00 |
Breakfast |
| 8:00 |
Registration - Mezzanine Level outside Mont Blanc |
| 9:00 |
Introduction
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| 9:10 |
Quality assurance in the XML world: Beyond validation
Dale Waldt
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| 9:50 |
XML instances to validate XML schemas
Eric van der Vlist
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| 10:30 |
Break |
| 11:00 |
Quality control practice for Scholars Portal, an XML-based e-journals repository
Wei Zhao,
Jayanthy Chengan, &
Agnes Bai
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| 11:40 |
Quality control of PMC content: A case study
Christopher Kelly &
Jeff Beck |
| 12:20 |
ACS publications — Ensuring XML quality
Tamara Stoker &
Keith Rose
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| 1:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:00 |
Announcements |
| 2:05 |
Beyond well-formed and valid
Sheila Morrissey,
John Meyer,
Sushil Bhattarai,
Gautham Kalwala,
Sachin Kurdikar,
Jie Ling,
Matthew Stoeffler, &
Umadevi Thanneeru
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| 2:45 |
Case study: Quality assurance and quality control techniques in an XML data conversion project
Charlie Halpern-Hamu
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| 3:15 |
Break |
| 3:45 |
Text analytics and the internal structure of content
Steven J. DeRose
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| 4:15 |
Open Forum |
| 5:15 |
Wrap-up
Mary McRae
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| 5:30 |
Closing |
Click for the detailed program for the symposium.
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