September 2000 Chapter Meeting
presents
Jon Bosak
who will speak
to us about
"XML and the Problem of Business Semantics"
Date:
Wednesday, September 6, 2000
Where:
Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room.
Time:
6:30 p.m. Refreshments; 7:00 p.m. Speaker
Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $10/year.
Despite its rapid adoption as a universal format for structured data exchange, XML does not by itself provide semantic definition; all it does is expose the real problem, which is how we reach agreements about meaning. In this talk, Jon Bosak of Sun Microsystems will discuss this problem in the area of electronic commerce and describe some current industry attempts to solve it.
Jon Bosak organized and led the working group that created XML. He subsequently served for two years as chair of the W3C XML Coordination Group. He is a founding member of OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, and of its predecessor, SGML Open. He currently chairs the OASIS Process Advisory Committee and serves on the Advisory Board for the Electronic Business XML initiative (ebXML), a joint project of OASIS and the United Nations body for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT).