I will be facilitating a half-day tutorial on open source software and XML at the upcoming Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), and I thought some people here might want to attend. JCDL has the reputation for being a quality conference, and Chapel Hill (North Carolina) is a nice place to visit.
Title Tutorial 11: Exploiting open source tools to create, maintain, and disseminate XML content Abstract XML is quickly becoming the means of marking up data for the purposes of transmitting information from one computer to another. While XML can be created by hand, the process is tedious and not necessarily scalable. Software systems can address this problem, and this tutorial enumerates, describes, and demonstrates ways open source software can be used to create, maintain, and disseminate XML. The goal of this tutorial is to increase participants' knowledge of these tools and to demonstrate how to take advantage of them in everyday digital library work and software development. Target Audience Software engineers and librarians/intermediate Presenter Eric Lease Morgan is the Head of the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department at the University Libraries of Notre Dame. He considers himself to be a librarian first and a computer user second. His professional goal is to discover new ways to use computers to provide better library service. Some of his more well-known investigations and implementations include MyLibrary and the Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts. An advocate for open source software and open access publishing, Morgan has been freely distributing his software and publications for years before the terms "open source" and "open access" were coined. Morgan also hosts his own Internet domain, infomotions.com. http://jcdl2006.org/program/afternoon-tutorials -- Eric Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame