Balisage 2011 Author/Speaker Biographies

Piotr Bański
Piotr Bański is an Assistant Professor of linguistics at the Institute of English Studies of the University of Warsaw, and a researcher at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim, where he is the Project Manager of the “Corpus Analysis Platform of the Next Generation” (KorAP), a project financed by the Leibniz Association (Leibniz-Gemeinschaft). He is also an elected member of the TEI Technical Council for term 2011-2012 and an external expert of the ISO TC37 SC4 committee for Language Resources Management. His current interests focus mostly on text encoding as well as the creation and use of robust language resources.

Syd Bauman
Syd Bauman began working at the Women Writers Project in 1990. Although his title would have you believe that he is a computer programmer, Syd is fond of pointing out that he doesn’t write that much actual code. When he does, it is usually in XSLT, Bash, Perl, or Emacs Lisp, and is always copylefted.

Syd became a hard-core computer user in 1982, and a devotee of descriptive markup two years later. He began using SGML and the TEI when he came to the Women Writers Project.

From 2001 to 2007 Syd served as North American editor of the TEI. During his tenure Syd became interested in the differences among negotiated interchange, blind interchange, and interoperability, and how these processes inflect our thoughts on document design.

Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck is a Technical Information Specialist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the US National Library of Medicine. He has been involved in the PubMed Central project since it began in 2000 and is pulled into any project there with an “X” (or an “ML”) in it. He has been working in print and then electronic journal publishing since the early 1990s. Currently he is co-chair of the NISO Z39-96, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite Working Group. He is a BELS-certified Editor in the Life Sciences and a poor golfer.

Daan Broeder
Daan Broeder works at the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (NL). In the institute’s TLA unit he is head for the group developing the core LTA archiving software that is also used by several other organizations and institutes. He is currently involved several EU infrastructure projects and collaborations on Language Resource management as the European CLARIN project and its Dutch national pendant CLARIN NL. In both projects the CMDI metadatda infrastructure, for which he is the coordinator, plays an essential role. He is part of national and international standardization groups on language resources.

After first working on the development of signal analysis software packages for phonetic research, he switched to developing support for Language Resource data management. He played a major role in the development of the IMDI metadata infrastructure within a number of EU and national projects that is one of the first domain specific metadata sets for the linguistic domain

Currently his major research interests are developing sustainable e-infrastructures and tools that will effectively eliminate the institutional and organizational boundaries for linguistic research.

Emmanuel Bruno
Emmanuel Bruno is Assistant Professor in Computer Sciences at the University of Sud Toulon-Var (South of France) since 2001. He is researcher at the CNRS Laboratory of Information Science and systems(LSIS) and he is member of the computer science teaching department. His main fields of research covers databases, XML data management, semantic web technologies. His research activities have been supported by French National research projects.

Kurt Cagle
Kurt Cagle is a writer, information architect and developer specializing in XML and Web Technologies. He has authored more than fifteen books and hundreds of articles on XML based technologies such as XSLT, SVG, XUL, XForms, computer ethics and more, and writes the blog UnderstandingXML.com. He has most recently been working with the Firefox browser and Mozilla technologies, as well as XML based languages such as XBL, trying to push what he sees as the re-emergence of client-based programming. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and daughters, where he can usually be found staring out the window at the falling rain while drinking coffee at local coffeehouses.

Hyunbo Cho
Hyunbo Cho is a professor in the department of industrial and management engineering at the Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University in 1986 and 1988, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering with a specialization in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Texas A and M University in 1993. He was a recipient of the SME 1997 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. His areas of expertise include B2B integration, Testing and monitoring of B2B solutions, and Supply chain management. He is co-chair of the Testing and Monitoring of Internet Exchanges (TaMIE) committee in OASIS.

Ravit H. David
Dr. Ravit H. David is the Digital Content Production Manager of the E-book project at Scholars Portal, University of Toronto. She also collaborates in various Digital Humanities projects across Canada.

Cornelia Davis
Cornelia Davis is a Senior Technologist in the Architecture group of the Office of the CTO, focusing RESTful Service Oriented Architectures. Areas of expertise include XML and Atom, and she frequent speaker on RESTful SOA. Cornelia holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge.

O’Neil Davion Delpratt
Dr. O’Neil Davion Delpratt is a software developer at Saxonica. 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.

David Dubin
David Dubin is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Champaign, IL. David conducts research on foundational issues of information representation and description.

Jacques Durand
Jacques Durand is software architect at Fujitsu America, Inc. with a long-time involvement in XML standard organizations. He has extensive experience in XML-related testing, is chair of the Test Assertions Guideline OASIS committee and of the Testing and Monitoring of Internet Exchanges (TaMIE) committee in OASIS, where he is also member of the Technical Advisory Board. He has been leading testing activities for years in the WS-Interoperability consortium and in the ebXML technical committee, while contributing to XML user consortiums such as RosettaNet, OAGI.Prior to this he was a development lead in a Business Process Management company for 5 years. He earned a Ph.D. in rule-based systems and logic-programming from Nancy Univ., France.

Eric Freese
Eric Freese is a veteran of publishing production optimization. From the early days of SGML, he has worked in roles as varied as consultant, software developer, content architect and semantic web technologist in industries including defense, technical publishing, commercial software and legal publishing. In his role as Director/Solutions Architect, Eric helps Aptara customers efficiently transition to cost-saving digital publishing models that simultaneously support eBook and other electronic delivery platforms, as well as traditional print production.

Christian Grün
Dr. Christian Grün is the principle developer of the native XML database BaseX and Post-Doctoral Researcher of the Database & Information Systems Group at the University of Konstanz. He is leading the open-source community and the developer team around BaseX. He has published papers for the EDBT 2009, XSym 2009 and the INEX 2009. Christian Grün is a member of the W3C XML Query Working Group. He contributes to the XQuery Full-Text Recommendation as Invited Expert.

Erik Hennum
Erik Hennum is a Senior Engineer at MarkLogic Corporation. He has worked with XML and RDF representations for document repositories and processing over 10 years including projects with taxonomy definition and subject classification. He was a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee from inception to the DITA 1.2 specification.

Alexander Holupirek
Alexander Holupirek is research assistant and PhD candidate in the Database and Information Systems Group at the University of Konstanz. He is affiliated with the PhD program “Explorative Analysis and Visualization of Large Information Spaces” and a core member of the native XML database BaseX team. His special interest is the combination of file and database systems.

Claus Huitfeldt
Claus Huitfeldt is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bergen, Norway.

He was founding Director (1990-2000) of the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, for which he developed the text encoding system MECS as well as the editorial methods for the publication of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass — The Bergen Electronic Edition (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Huitfeldt’s research interests are within philosophy of language, philosophy of technology, text theory, editorial philology and markup theory.

Carlos R. Jaimez-Gonzalez
Carlos Jaimez-Gonzalez is currently an Associate Professor at the Information Technology Department of the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City, where he is responsible of the Web Technologies and Systems Research Group. He holds a PhD from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering of the University of Essex, UK. His research interests include web services, distributed objects, XML and related technologies, interoperability, systems integration, web application development, and technologies for enhancing education.

Carlos has also been involved in several software projects for the industry; working as a Software Developer, Team Leader, and Database Officer. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Database Administrator (MCDBA), and Solution Developer (MCSD).

Dileshni Jayasinghe
Dileshni Jayasinghe works as a Software Developer at Scholars Portal. She formerly worked as a Web Developer at Dynamite Network Solutions.

Daniel Jettka
Daniel Jettka recently finished his Master degree in Linguistics after acquiring a BA in Text Technology. During his studies he worked together with Andreas Witt, Dieter Metzing, Daniela Goecke and Maik Stührenberg in the Sekimo project of the Research Group 437 Text-technological modelling of information funded by the German Research Foundation on different XSLT stylesheets for the handling and transformation of overlapping markup. His Master’s Thesis dealt with the representation, processing, and visualization of multiple hierarchies with XStandoff and XSLT.

Lars G. Johnsen
Lars G. Johnsen is Associate Professor of linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Bartek Kawula
Bartek Kawula has been working for Scholars Portal since early 2009, first as a Client Services Librarian and more recently as an Information Architect. His primary role has been to design the user experience of Scholars Portal’s in-house services and to develop new applications for OCUL members. Prior to this, he worked as a Digital Projects Librarian for York University Libraries.

Michael Kay
Michael Kay has been developing the Saxon product since 1998, initially as a spare-time activity at ICL and then Software AG, but since 2004 within the Saxonica company which he founded. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge where he studied under the late Maurice Wilkes, and spent 24 years with ICL, mainly on development of database software. He is the editor of the W3C XSLT specification.

Eliot Kimber
Eliot Kimber has been working with generalized markup for more than 25 years. He was a founding member of the XML Working Group, an editor of the HyTime standard (ISO/IEC 10744:1992), and a founding and continuing voting member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. For the last few years Eliot’s focus has been on applying DITA to the information representation and management challenges of professional publishers. Eliot writes and speaks regularly on XML and related topics.

David Lee
David Lee has over 25 years experience in the software industry responsible for many major projects in small and large companies including Sun Microsystems, IBM, Centura Software (formerly Gupta), Premenos, Epiphany (formerly RightPoint), WebGain, Nexstra, Epocrates. As senior principal software engineer at Epocrates, Inc., Mr Lee is responsible for managing data integration, storage, retrieval, and processing of clinical knowledge databases for the leading clinical information provider.

Key career contributions include Real-time AIX OS extensions for optimizing transmission of real-time streaming video (IBM), secure encrypted EDI over internet email (Premenos), porting the Centura Team Desktop system to Solaris (Gupta, Centura), optimizations of large Enterprise CRM systems (Epiphany), author of xmlsh (http://www.xmlsh.org) an open source scripting language for XML.

Evan Lenz
Evan Lenz has been a specialist in XML technologies since 1999, having served on the W3C XSL Working Group, written XML-related books and articles, and spoken at numerous conferences. He is currently working for MarkLogic Corporation.

Erick J. Lopez-Ornelas
Erick Lopez-Ornelas is currently an Associate Professor at the Information Technology Department of the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. He holds a PhD from the Universite Paul Sabatier (France). He worked as researcher in the high resolution remote perception laboratory in Toulouse, France, in the areas of processing of high resolution satelital images, and geographical information systems. His research interests include the analysis of high resolution images, and the processing, visualization, and extraction of knowledge from spatial information.

Simon M. Lucas
Simon M. Lucas is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Essex, UK. His main research interests are in machine learning and games. He has published widely in these fields with over 130 peer-reviewed papers and is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games.

Professor Lucas was chair of IAPR Technical Committee 5 on Benchmarking and Software (2002-2006) and is the inventor of the scanning n-tuple classifier, a fast and accurate OCR method. He was appointed inaugural chair of the IEEE CIS Games Technical Committee in July 2006, has chaired or co-chaired many international conferences, including the First IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games in 2005. He is also an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and the Springer Journal of Memetic Computing. He was an invited keynote speaker or tutorial speaker at IEEE CEC 2007, IEEE WCCI 2008, IEEE CIG 2008, PPSN 2008,IEEE CEC 2009 and IEEE CEC 2010. He leads the newly established Game Intelligence Group at the University of Essex.

Chris Maloney
Chris Maloney works as a contractor for NLM/NCBI, on the PubMed Central and Bookshelf projects.

Yves Marcoux
Yves Marcoux has been a faculty member at EBSI, University of Montréal, since 1991. He is mainly involved in teaching and research activities in the field of document informatics. Prior to his appointment at EBSI, he worked for 10 years in systems maintenance and development, in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. He obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical computer science from University of Montréal in 1991. His main research interests are document semantics, structured document implementation methodologies, and information retrieval in structured documents. Through GRDS, his research group at EBSI, he has been principal architect for the Governmental Framework for Integrated Document Management, a project funded by the National Archives of Québec and by the Québec Treasury Board.

Benoit Mercier
Benoit Mercier has been working as researcher and analyst at the Franqus research group of the University of Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada) since 2006 where he collaborates to the development of a new North American French dictionary. His main interests include computer linguistic, Free Software development and technology watch. His is also a European Commission official since 2000. He started and animated the Commission IT Network (CITnet), an internal collaboration platform for IT specialists (almost 2000 individuals) and is the author of the 2003-2006 version of the strategy for internal use of Open Source Software at the European Commission.

Dale Moberg
Dale Moberg has been involved in defining or enabling reliable, secure systems for business collaboration since 1993. He has worked in product development, architecture, strategy, and research. Many of his activities have been concerned with integrating security standards for B2B such as digital signatures for nonrepudiation of origin and nonrepudiation of receipt. He has chaired or co-chaired ebXML TCs in OASIS working on eBusiness transactions choreography and agreements. He currently works on designs and functional requirements for products in areas of application integration, B2B gateways, business activity monitoring, and business intelligence. He holds a M.A. and Ph.D from Northwestern University, and a M.S. from Ohio State University and has worked in academic and commercial organizations.

Elisabeth Murisasco
Elisabeth Murisasco is Professor in Computer Sciences at the University of Sud Toulon-Var (South of France) since 2007. She is researcher at the CNRS Laboratory of Information Science and systems (LSIS) and she is member of the computer science teaching department . Her main research experience and scientific expertise covers databases, XML-based data, semantic web technologies. Her research activities have been supported by French National research projects.

Walter Perry
Walter Perry, PhD. is Managing Director of Fiduciary Automation in New York, where he has 27 years experience building distributed systems for processing transnational financial transactions, their settlements, and associated regulatory and accounting compliance and reporting. He has spoken widely over the past dozen years on XML-defined transaction processing, XML database issues, and the elaboration of semantics from XML syntax. He was the founder and leader of the XML Special Interest Group of New York.

Wendell Piez
Wendell Piez has produced any number of useful gadgets, including a CSS stylesheet for editing Balisage papers.

Liam Quin
Liam Quin is the XML Activity Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium, where he has worked since 2001; he also does consulting in his spare time. Prior to working for W3C, Quin was a full-time consultant. He has worked with structured markup since the early 1980s, with SGML since 1987, and was an Invited Expert for the original XML work at W3C.

Ronald P. Reck
For over a decade Ronald P. Reck has operated the consulting company, RRecktek LLC, outside of Washington DC metropolitan area. RRecktek LLC has enjoyed over one hundred contracts ranging from the data warehousing of state, local, and federal law enforcement incident reports outside of submarine bases for The Navy Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) to vocabulary projects for the management and dissemination of controlled vocabularies for the Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI) as a member of the Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group staff and a “simple” content management system for build out drawings for global telecom company. Among the companies served include Nextel, Winstar, ANS +COre, AOL, Standard & Poors, The Federal Communications Commission, Kiplingers Newletter, Radio Free Asia, Eastman Kodak, The United States Information Agency, The Council of Better Business Bureaus, Department of Defense Health Affairs and others. He prides himself on developing scalable, open source architectural strategies for difficult problems. Ron resides with his lovely wife Olga and the best son in the entire world.

Allen H. Renear
Allen H. Renear is the Associate Dean for Research and an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Hans-Jürgen Rennau
Hans-Jürgen Rennau works as a software developer for bits GmbH (Büro für Informations-Technologie und Software). He takes a keen interest in the integration of object-oriented and “item-oriented” (XML) components of behavior and components of information. Hans-Jürgen’s background as a biologist partly accounts for his belief that the naturalness of a thought is important to its potential. A natural integration of two natural approaches — OO and XML — is what he strives for in theory and practice.

Simone Sacchi
Simone Sacchi is a Doctoral Student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and research assistant at the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship under the NSF granted Data Conservancy Project. His research interests are in conceptual foundation of digital curation and knowledge representation.

Shahin Ezzat Sahebi
Shahin Ezzat Sahebi works as a Computer engineer at Scholars Portal. Prior to joinging to Scholars Portal Shain worked as a Software Developer for Amazon, Seattle, US.

Kenneth B. Sall
Ken Sall has been supporting the US federal government in XML efforts since 1998. His customers include NASA, General Services Administration (GSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Intelligence Community. Sall has been an active contributor to XML and data standardization efforts including the Federal Enterprise Architecture - Data Reference Model (FEA DRM), the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), and the Intelligence Community Metadata Standards for Publication (IC MSP), as well as participating in several federal XML and data management working groups. As the author of XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide (Addison-Wesley, 2002), he basks in the glory of quarterly statements from his publisher that no longer include payments. Music is his passion. XML too.

Marc H. Scholl
Prof. Dr. Marc H. Scholl is full professor of Computer Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Marc Scholl has been serving on the Program Committee of many major national and international conferences and editorial boards of international journals over the years. He is member of several professional societies and their subgroups (ACM, ACM SIGMOD, IEEE CS,GI, GI FG Datenbanken, GI FG EMISA, IFIP WG 2.6).

He has been running the 2000 edition of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT’2000) in Konstanz as Executive Chair, is a member of the EDBT Association since 2000, of its Executive Board since 2002, and its President 2005-2008. Also, he is a member of the ICDT Council since 2002.

Oliver Schonefeld
Oliver Schonefeld works at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Institute for the German Language) in Mannheim and is involved in the projects CLARIN and TextGrid.

He studied computer science with specialization in text technology at Bielefeld University until 2005. After graduating he worked as a researcher at Bielefeld University and later at Tübingen University’s collaborative research center Linguistic Data Structures.

His major research interests are the limitations of markup languages (especially overlapping markup) and the use of markup languages in linguistic description of language data.

Alexander Schwarzman
Alexander (“Sasha”) Schwarzman is Information Systems Analyst at the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He was instrumental in effecting AGU’s transition to an XML-based publishing model from a paper- oriented one. Sasha has developed an XML-centric production workflow for the currently published journals and books, designed AGU tag sets, and contributed to the development and implementation of the AGU metadata database and a suite of XML/XSLT/Schematron tools that play a central role in the AGU publication processes. He served as a technical lead in developing AGU Digital Library that holds more than 100 years worth of journals, books, and transactions published by AGU. Sasha is currently serving as a co-chair of the NISO/NFAIS Technical Working Group on Supplemental Materials to Journal Article. He holds an equivalent of Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State Technical University of St.Petersburg, Russia, and a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

Michael Seiferle
Michael Seiferle belongs to the BaseX developer team and is currently finishing his masters thesis at the University of Konstanz. His topic is “XQuery powered web applications”. Michael’s main contributions to the current code base — besides basex-web — include the implementation of group by and hierarchical collections.

Julien Seinturier
Julien Seinturier is a PhD in Computer Sciences at the University of Sud Toulon-Var (South of France) since 2007. He is post doctorate at the CNRS Laboratory of Information Science and systems(LSIS) within the computer science teaching department. His fields of research covers Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, XML data management. His research activities have been supported by French National and European pluridisciplinary research projects.

C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is a consultant specializing in preserving and providing access to cultural and scientific data. He has served as co-editor of the XML 1.0 specification, the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative, and the XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 specification. He holds a doctorate in comparative literature.

Maik Stührenberg
Maik Stührenberg studied Computational Linguistics at Bielefeld University. He worked four years as research assistant at Giessen University in different text-technological projects together with Henning Lobin and Georg Rehm. Afterwards, he worked together with Andreas Witt, Dieter Metzing, Daniela Goecke and Daniel Jettka in the Sekimo project of the Research Group 437 Text-technological modelling of information funded by the German Research Foundation and is now employed as research assistant at Bielefeld University. His main research interests include specifications for structuring multiple annotated data, query languages, and query processing.

Wendy A. Swanbeck
Wendy Swanbeck has worked as a software engineer for over 20 years. In the past she has worked on a variety of projects including graphical design programs, mainframe control systems, and CAD design software for commercial and government projects. More recently she has been working at Eastman Kodak Company writing software for networking systems, color management and photo manipulation GUI software. She also donates some of her time creating websites for groups that need it. Her passion is to architect and write clean, flexible and robust software using the right tools for the job.

Thorsten Trippel
Thorsten Trippel works at Tübingen University in a project on sustainability of language resources called NaLiDa. This national project aims at providing a platform for linguists to locate resources they need and to enable them to produce long time usable data by introducing them to relevant metadata descriptions and standards. He is part of national and international standardization groups on language resources.

His major research interests are directed towards language resources in general and specifically in terminology and lexicography/lexicon theory (PhD Thesis: The Lexicon Graph Model: A generic Model for multi-modal lexicon development) including other types of resources such as speech corpora and involving other modalities. He has conducted research in speech technology and textual corpus linguistics, has been working with (XML-)databases for information retrieval over highly structured data and run research projects on interface design for such data.

Work at his previous affiliation Bielefeld University involved research projects in Brazil, transforming archives of handwritten texts into web-usable multi purpose sources for computational linguists and historians. Additionally he taught at Bielefeld University, and various institutions and summer schools, for example in introducing text technological and computational linguistic backgrounds to field linguists and language documentarists in West-Africa.

B. Tommie Usdin
B. Tommie Usdin is President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy specializing in XML and SGML. Ms. Usdin has been working with SGML since 1985 and has been a supporter of XML since 1996. She chairs the Balisage conference. Ms. Usdin has developed DTDs, Schemas, and XML/SGML application frameworks for applications in government and industry. Projects include reference materials in medicine, science, engineering, and law; semiconductor documentation; historical and archival materials. Distribution formats have included print books, magazines, and journals, and both web- and media-based electronic publications. She is co-chair of the NISO Z39-96, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite Working Group. You can read more about her at http://www.mulberrytech.com/people/usdin/index.html

Eric van der Vlist
Eric van der Vlist is an independent consultant and trainer. His domain of expertise includes Web development and XML technologies.

He is the creator and main editor of XMLfr.org, the main site dedicated to XML technologies in French, the author of the O’Reilly animal books on XML Schema and RELAX NG and a member of the ISO DSDL (http://dsdl.org) working group focused on XML schema languages.

He is based in Paris and you can reach him by mail (vdv@dyomedea.com) or meet him in one of the many conferences where he presents his projects.

Dieter Van Uytvanck
Dieter Van Uytvanck studied computer science and linguistics, and has been involved since 2008 in the technical part of the CLARIN research infrastructure. He mainly focuses on XSD, XSLT and flexible metadata schemas.

Jean-Yves Vion-Dury
Jean-Yves Vion-Dury holds an CS engineering degree from the “Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris” (1993) and graduated with a PhD in CS from Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble in 1999. He has been working at Xerox Research Centre Europe (in Grenoble, France) since 1995, as a research scientist; he has also been on a two year sabbatical with Vincent Quint’s team at INRIA in 2002-2004. His research interests relate to various aspect of XML including models, the impact of standards, validation/transformation languages and architectures, with theoretical background in programming languages, compilation, type systems and formal logics.

Jean-Yves was Program Chair of DocEng (ACM Document Engineering Symposium ) in 2004, is member of its Program Committee since 2003, and member of its Steering Committee since 2005.

Norman Walsh
Norman Walsh is a Lead Engineer at MarkLogic Corporation where he works with the Application Services team. Norm is also an active participant in a number of standards efforts worldwide: he is chair of the XML Processing Model Working Group at the W3C where he is also co-chair of the XML Core Working Group. At OASIS, he is chair of the DocBook Technical Committee.

With more than a decade of industry experience, Norm is well known for his work on DocBook and a wide range of open source projects. He is the author of DocBook: The Definitive Guide.

Karen M. Wickett
Karen M. Wickett is a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Andreas Witt
Witt received his Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics and Text Technology from the Bielefeld University in 2002 (dissertation title: “Multiple Informationsstrukturierung mit Auszeichnungssprachen. XML-basierte Methoden und deren Nutzen für die Sprachtechnologie”).

After graduating in 1996, he started as a researcher and instructor in Computational Linguistics and Text Technology. He was heavily involved in the establishment of the minor subject Text Technology in Bielefeld University’s Magister and B.A. program in 1999 and 2002 respectively. After his Ph.D. in 2002 he became an assistant lecturer, still at the Text Technology group in Bielefeld. In 2006 he moved to Tübingen University, where he was involved in a project on “Sustainability of Linguistic Resources” and in projects on the interoperability of language data. Since 2009 he is senior researcher at Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Institute for the German Language) in Mannheim.

Witt is and was a member of several research organizations, amongst them the TEI Special Interest Group on overlapping markup, for which he was involved in the writing of the latest version of the chapter “Multiple Hierarchies”, which is included in TEI-Guidelines P5.

Witt’s major research interests deal with questions on the use and limitations of markup languages for the linguistic description of language data.

Jungyub Woo
Jungyub Woo is a researcher at the Software and System Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the technology laboratory of the US Department of Commerce. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Postech (Pohang University of Science and Technology) in 2001 and 2003, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering with a specialization in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Postech (Pohang University of Science and Technology) in 2007. Dr. Woo has spearheaded development of the Business-to-Business test bed at NIST, which has been used by a number of industry and standards development organizations. Also he is researching for the Health Level Seven International (HL7) interoperability. His areas of expertise include Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Management and Strategy, and Semantic Web.

Vyacheslav Zholudev
Vyacheslav Zholudev graduated in May 2007 from Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia with a Master degree in Computer Science. He is continuing his studies at Jacobs University Bremen as a Ph.D. student. Since September of 2007 he has been working in the KWARC research group (Knowledge Adaptation and Reasoning for Content) under the supervision of Prof. Michael Kohlhase.