We used to have the XML Symposium workshop but VLDB did not find room for it this year.
Actually good research on XML/XQuery still has a chance for getting into SIGMOD/VLDB/ICDE. For example we are going to have a paper at ICDE on XML processing. But it is harder. If the academic environment is so "anti-XML" at the moment (and Stonebraker has been so since the dawn of time), then how easy is it to get tenure with XML topics anyway? :) Best regards Michael -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniela Florescu Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:10 PM To: James Fuller Cc: xquery-discuss Subject: Re: [xquery-talk] XML/XQuery academic conferences ? Thanks James. Looking forward to more ideas: Actually, to my list I forgot to add IR conferences. Yet another bunch that I know nothing about, but I am interested to hear more. Best regards Dana On Oct 12, 2011, at 12:03 PM, James Fuller wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Daniela Florescu <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I am having a problem right now, and I don't know how to solve it. >> >> We had over the summer several outstanding students, who did really >> great research in processing XML and XQuery. >> >> Here comes the question. Where can we publish the result of this >> research !? > > > http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+r > etrieval/book/978-3-642-03554-8 > > http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+r > etrieval/book/978-3-540-30951-2 > > In my mind Balisage is the natural for this, but we could orientate > things now that we have moved XML Prague to University of Ekonomics > ... perhaps there is value in a compiled journal from several > conferences/sources (XML Summer School et al) ? > > >> 2. Database conferences. > > I dont think so ... many of these guys are being forced to accept > polystructured data ... my feeling is this are is probably the logical > container for these kind of papers. > > >> So they'll not understand the XQuery new work, let alone publish it. > > agreed, but I its a pretty broad tent with lots of outlets for > publishing, some who may consider > >> 3. Functional programming conferences (after all, XQuery is a >> functional language..). Maybe it's a choice !? >> I have no experience, but I am interested to hear if anybody else >> has. > > fp bulk existence is in academic form and perhaps its time to welcome > xquery 3.0 to them ... they would probably support a language with a > gentle learning curve, etc. > > >> 4. WWW Conference. Based on my experience, it's such a wide >> conference --- it's like a conference on water >> -- where do you start !? As a result the audience, as well as the >> program committee, is interested in widely different things (and >> XML/XQuery might not be one of them, and then you are out of >> luck) > > agreed too broad, but as an activity to get the word out about xquery > probably useful to attempt to go > >> 5. NoSQL conferences. Unfortunately, there are two problems. First, >> NoSQL is still not accepted in academic conferences >> -- they have the same problem as XML itself. And second, they try to >> stay away from XML like crazy ("angle brackets, not cool,man, not >> cool. >> Not Web >> scale."). > > I believe we should be at these conferences, if not because NoSQL > crowd is about to have their own 'query wars' and it will be good to > be near (but on the sidelines of this). > > >> So, I am interested in your feedback. > > will send more thoughts after the weekend. > > J _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
