Presentation for the open space session of TMRA 2008, International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, Leipzig, Germany.

1. XML Holland 2008
Dutch UG
http://www.xmlholland2008.nl
20 November 2008, Amsterdam
Gabriel Hopmans
Member of Organisation Committee

2. About the User Group
• Knowledge platform about any xml related project/standard
• One of the most still active user groups with around 300 members
• “The Conference” XMLHolland-year: Each year around November
• Since last year there is a lot of interest and attention to Semantic
Technologies
– In 2007 the RDF/OWL and Topic Maps discussion
• This year about Semantics and Interoperability
And subtitle : Representing Knowledge and Meaning
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3. About the program of XMLHolland2008
• Each year also an Award for best XML related project
– Let’s see if we can get international submissions ?
• This year for the first time a complete English Track
– Keynotes by
• Kal Ahmed, Antony Pitts
• Eric Miller
– ODF and OOXML
– BlueView : National Search Facility for Dutch Police
• This is the project on which the Topic Maps project TopicView
continues..
– And many more..
– See http://www.xmlholland2008.nl
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4. Program conference XMLHolland2008
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