- From: Dave Makower <davemak@pencom.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:03:52 -0500
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Call for Participation _________________ WWW7 Workshop on Internet Middleware and Data Modeling ____________________________________________________ 1. Overview The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and developers working on designing extensible object frameworks for the World-Wide Web and those interested in utilizing these frameworks to apply a data-modeling approach to Web site construction. This workshop is meant to be a follow-up to the WWW6 Workshop on Object-Oriented Web Servers and Data Modeling that was organized in Santa Clara, CA in the spring of 1997 ("http://www.pww.pencom.com/metamagic/workshop97/"). The desired result of the new workshop is to encourage and enhance cooperation between researchers and developers in the area. With the expansion of the World-Wide Web, there has been a tremendous growth in the redundancy of data. It is very often the case that a new Web site is created by copying, rearranging and reformatting information from other sites in order to satisfy some specialized search and presentation requirements. The result is a large waste of human resources and Internet bandwidth, as well as a maintenance nightmare. Some of the most promising solutions to this problem have involved applying a data-modeling approach to designing and building Web sites. In such an approach, the Web site does not necessarily contain the data <em>per se</em>, but instead contains metadata entities that facilitate access to the desired data. The World Wide Web Consortium has undertaken an important step in this direction by starting the Resource Description Framework (RDF) standadization effort. In parallel with this work, the proliferation of Java has served as a catalyst for a number of efforts toward designing and implementing new object-oriented extensions to HTTP servers, the most promising to date being the Servlet mechanism from JavaSoft. CORBA and IIOP are also playing a role in bringing an object-oriented perspective to Web applications. We see in these trends -- the data-modeling approach and the emergence of object-oriented application frameworks -- the potential for a great deal of synergy. This synergy was clearly indicated by the high level of interest in last year's workshop and the resulting fruitful exchange of information between workshop participants. 2. Workshop Committee Leon Shklar (shklar@cs.rutgers.edu) Dave Makower (davemak@pencom.com) Sveta Gurevich (sveta@pencom.com) 3. Participation We are looking for participation by any and all of the following categories of individuals and groups: 1. those involved in data-modeling approaches to Web site construction, 2. those involved in building Internet middleware solutions, 3. those involved in creating object-oriented frameworks for extending existing HTTP servers, 4. anyone involved in integrating the above activities. Please submit position papers (1-5 pages, in HTML) via email to Leon Shklar at shklar@cs.rutgers.edu, no later than Friday, March 6, 1998. Emailed submissions may consist of either a complete position paper or a URL where a complete position paper may be accessed. Notification of acceptance will be given byFriday, March 13, 1998. For more information and guidelines for workshop submissions, please see our workshop site at "http://www.pww.pencom.com/metamagic/workshop98/" and the WWW7 workshop site at "http://www7.conf.au/workshop.html". 4. Workshop Venue This workshop will be conducted on April 14, 1998, in conjunction with the WWW7 Conference in Brisbane Australia. +-------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------+ | Dave Makower | davemak@pencom.com | Internet Technologist | +-------------------+-----------------------+-------------------------+ | Co-author of "Java Programming Basics" (Henry Holt/MIS:Press) | | http://www.pencom.com/javabasics/ | +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+ | Pencom Web Works | (212) 513-7777 voice | | 40 Fulton St. | (212) 513-1014 fax | | New York, NY 10038 | http://www.pencom.com/ | +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
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