1. Parsing and Processing XML Documents using Java (tm) Technology
   - Kelvin Lawrence, IBM
   

   The objective of this session is to provide you with a detailed technical overview, of parsing and processing XML documents using Java(tm) technology, and also to provide a good overview of the key standards that the XML programmer needs to be aware of and how to use them programmatically. These include but are not limited to: Extensible Mark-up Language (XML), the Document Object Model (DOM), the Simple API for XML (SAX), Document Type Definition (DTD) and XML Schema, In this session, Kelvin will discuss his experiences in working with XML and will show, with the use of real examples, how you can easily write your own Java programs and start working with XML right away. After attending this session you should have a fairly detailed working knowledge of XML programming in Java and be able to implement complex Java applications that bring together many different XML technologies. The session will include a detailed walkthrough of the source code for the sample programs.

   Prior knowledge of Java programming is assumed. Knowledge of the basic XML concepts will help but is not essential.

2. Getting started with the W3C XML Schema Language - Development Tools, Runtime Support, Resources, Applications
   - Bob Schloss, IBM
   

   The W3C XML Schema Language is very powerful. Types are definable which specify a range of constraints, these types can be part of a type hierarchy, and a schema can make the content model for an element or attribute be associated with these types as a function of outer elements containing the element tag.

   Schemas can support assessment/validation of documents which use elements and attributes defined in more than one namespace, or in one namespace but in multiple schema documents, or which build on unchanged or changed schemas from others. Schemas can have enough information for tools to build serializers/deserializer code into common programming languages, to make a normative database design for holding instance documents that conform, or to model a structure for data modeling created initially in another framework, such as UML Logical Class Diagrams.

   If you will be developing your own markup language or message/document format and documenting it with W3C XML Schema language, or you will be running or writing code that utilizes schemas, you will want to know what tools and libraries are already available or have been announced for delivery in the 2nd quarter. This session will demonstrate some of the schema-aware tools and libraries that support the Proposed Recommendation version of the W3C XML Schema Language, tools that support "simple schemas" thru "advanced and modular schema" creation and use, and schema-driven instance document editing. It will also discuss the efforts of the W3C and its members to reuse the schema language as components of Web Services Description Language, SOAP 1.1 encodings, and XForms language. It will point out the best sites on the Web for learning the schema language, for finding elegant and/or semantically rich schemas that have been made available to the public, for finding existing reusable schema type definitions, and for solving problems with its use.

   We assume that the participants are somewhat familiar with the W3C XML Schema language (for example, they have read the Primer at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0 or attended a tutorial offered immediately before WWW10), are somewhat familiar with XPath, and very familiar with DTDs and Namespaces.

3. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What is the Best <XML> Database Solution of All?
   - Akmal B. Chaudhri, Informix Labs
   

   Managing XML documents is problematic when document collections grow. How do we successfully store and query document collections? One solution is a database. We will discuss the problem of integrating XML with databases and examine choices, such as relational databases, object databases, object-relational databases and native XML servers.

4. XLink and Conceptual Modeling
   - Dr. Peter Chen, Louisiana State University
   

   This session describes the basic concepts of conceptual modeling and XLink and the relationships between these two. The fundamental concepts and some recent extensions of the Entity-Relationship (ER) modeling will be given. The linkages between ER diagrams and English sentence structures will be described. Then, the XLink concepts will be introduced, and the similarity with the ER concepts will be presented. Then, the linkages between ER modeling and other components of XML such as RDF will be discussed. By understanding these linkages, it will be easier to understand how most XML components fit together and to design the interfaces between XML and databases.

5. Wireless and the semantic web
   - Antonio Tomarchio
   
   

Investment in IT has taken place rapidly in Asia Pacific over the last couple of years. From electronic cash to high tech parks and supply chain management - government and businesses in the region has embraced technology. Never before have there been so much interest and opportunities in technology in Asia

1. Chua Tiow Chye, CyberCity Shenzhen
   

   Ascendas (formerly known as JTC) is one of the pioneer of industrial park in Asia. The company has made foray into IT parks throughout the region - in Singapore, India and various parts of China, including CyberCity in Shenzhen. Physical communities for entrepreneurs, world class infrastructure and liberal government policies are the pre-conditions in building successful IT hubs. What does CyberCity in Shenzhen has to offer and what can one expect from IT parks in the region.

2. Octopus , Mr Kenneth Tan, CFO

   Operating and building out the largest and most successful cash card in the region. Building an all-in-one, online and offline cash card for Hongkong and perhaps the region.

3. Tony Au, founder of ABC Multiactive

4. Raymond Y. Chiu, Vice President of Business Development, Asia Pacific Region and Japan, iAnywhere Solutions Inc.

   The state of mobile banking in Asia. There far are more mobile devices than PCs, it's going to be more m-finance than e-finance. What are the key initiatives that banks in Asia has in place and what are their major decisions ahead.

5. Zhang XN of HiChina - the largest web hosting company in China since 1996.

   The Chinese Internet business has been wooed by the money man - from IP phone, to ISPs to Portals and to Data Centers, where is it really headed to

6. Joseph Poon, SAR1

   Topic: Digital Commerce

   • How digital commerce will evolve in Asia/Hong Kong enabled by new technologies
   • The essential elements for conducting digital commerce
   • Current hurdles/challenges faced by e-merchants
   • Solutions available in the market for overcoming the hurdles
   • Outlook for digital commerce in Asia/Hong Kong in the forthcoming years

The Semantic Web is a vision:

The idea of having data on the Web defined and linked in a way that it can be used by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration and reuse of data across various applications. In order to make this vision a reality for the Web, supporting standards and technologies must be designed to enable machines to make more sense of the Web, with the result of making the Web more useful for humans. The WWW10 Semantic Web Developers Day Track is designed to highlight and present innovative technologies that are being developed that provide the foundation for this vision.

• Eric Miller, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
• Ralph Swick, W3C Semantic Web Advanced Development Lead
• Edd Dumbill, XML.com

1. James Hendler (University of Maryland and Chief Scientist, Information Systems Office, DARPA)

   Ontologies on the Web: The DAML+OIL project

   This presentation will focus on ongoing efforts with the DAML+OIL language, an ontology mark-up language for web documents based on RDF which was developed under support from both US and EU funding agencies. Specific focus will be on the importance of ontologies for agent-based computing and other web applications and how DAML+OIL provides a basis for addressing these issues. An overview and demonstration of DAML+OIL applications will be provided. New initiatives to extend DAML+OIL to provide semantic web service descriptions will also be discussed.

2. Art Barstow (HP/W3C), Jose Kahan (W3C), Marja-Riitta Koivunen (W3C), Ralph Swick (W3C)

   Annotea: A Generic Annotation environment using RDF/XML

   Annotea is a general Web annotation system being developed as part of the W3C Se mantic Web advanced development work to build novel applications of RDF and othe r Semantic Web tools. Annotea was first deployed publicly in November 2000. In t his presentation the Annotea development team will describe the architectural de sign decisions they made when using RDF to model annotations of Web documents. C lient implementations of Amaya will be demonstrated and plans for future directi ons will be described.

3. Eric Prud'hommeaux (W3C)

   RDFdb and Algae: A Generic RDF Datastore and Query Language

   This presentation will focus on a discussion of a reusable RDF database and query language for supporting general RDF applications. Specific focus will be on design and optimization of the system, and the application of this in supporting W3C's access control and annotation environment.

4. Eric van der Vlist (Dyomedea)

   Building a Semantic Web Site

   Some of the semantic web and knowledge technologies can easily be used with today's technology to facilitate the navigation on medium sized web sites.This presentation is showing how one can build on keywords available in most of the XML formats to derive RDF Site Summaries, Topic Maps and pages classifications that are very helpful for navigating on medium or complex web sites.

5. Dave Beckett (ILRT, University of Bristol)

   Building Semantic Web Applications with Redland

   This presentation will focus on the author of the Redland RDF toolkit experience in using this application framework to rapidly prototype and build RDF databases, RSS 1.0 processors, web searching, collaborative work and o ther semantic web applications.

6. James Tauber (Bowstreet)

   Redfoot: An RDF Application Framework

   Redfoot is an open source framework for building distributed RDF-based applications written in Python. At its core, Redfoot provides for parsing, storing, querying, viewing and editing RDF. Added to this is a PHP-like system for building web sites entirely driven by RDF data and the beginnings of a P2P architecture for Redfeet to share and discover new information. This talk will overview the history and architecture of Redfoot and demonstrate some websites that are beginning to make use of it.

7. Edd Dumbill (XML.com)

   Panel Discussion: Killer Apps for the Semantic Web

   The W3C's Semantic Web Activity aims to build the Semantic Web through a partner ship between specification and software development work. Over the last year the number of tools for creating applications using Semantic Web technology, especi ally RDF, have increased encouragingly. What is missing, though, are the "killer applications" that will drive widespread adoption of SW technology and fuel the network effect. This session will bring together developers of existing SW soft ware and involve the audience to help identify key parts of the SW software infr astructure that need to be created in order to allow everybody to participate in the Semantic Web.

1. Dr Alex Leung, CEO Infotalk

   Voice Recognition for Asian languages

2. Todd Elvins, CTO of Indicast

   personalization of voice applications and how this minimizes the need for user interaction. In particular, he will discuss Indicast's next-generation "MindReader Voice Engine" which enables different styles of voice interaction for different types of content.

3. Xuedong Huang, General Manager, Speech.Net, Microsoft

   Add Speech Experience to the web applications -- the Microsoft .Net approach

4. Kim Stephens

   Demonstration of IBM's Home Page Reader V3.0, a talking Web browser for person who are blind or have low vision.

Final Session - Country/Market Presentation

• Hongkong - Mr Charles Mok, Chairman HKIT Federation, CEO dots21.com
• Singapore - Mr Roger Yuen MD, CNET Networks Asia
• Korea - Mr Sam Ahn, Director of Global Marketing G2Mobile
• China - Mr Zhang XN