Standardization and Knowledge Transfer – INS0

1. INS0
Standardization and Knowledge Transfer – INS0
Mission
The mission of the group is to stimulate dissemination and take-up scientific results through concerted
actions with e.g., standardization committees. Furthermore, small-scale individual projects in the area
of digital libraries are supported pending a better embedding in or outside the institute.
Theme leader
Prof.dr. M.L. Kersten
MSC or CR classification
H5, 68T30, 68T50, I.2.3, I.2.4, I.2.7, F.3.1, F.3.2, F.4.1, F.4.2, D.2.11, H.1.2, H.2.4, H.2, E.1, E.5
Staff
CWI employees
Name Fte Function(s) Period Subthemes + projects
Dr. I. Herman 1.0 researcher indefinite W3C activities
Prof.dr. M.L. Kersten p.m theme leader indefinite INS0
S. Pemberton 1.0 researcher indefinite W3C activities
Lectures, conferences, courses,
project meetings, working visits
Lectures
•Overview of the Semantic Web, Workshop on
Ontologies and Metadata, Budapest, Hun-
gary, February 26: I. Herman.
•XForms: What and Why, XForms Industry
Briefing, London, April 6: S. Pemberton.
•Introduction to the Semantic Web, Invited
Expert presentation, Visualisation Ontology
Workshop, Edinburgh, April 7: I. Herman.
•XForms, XML Europe, Amsterdam, April 18:
S. Pemberton, tutorial).
•Introduction to the Semantic Web Workshop
of the OpenGroup, Brussels, April 19: (In-
vited talk, ‘Boundaryless Information Flow:
Managing the Flow’): I. Herman.
•On the Design of Notations (Keynote), XML
Europe, Amsterdam, April 19: S. Pemberton.
•XForms Unplugged, Seybold eForms Summit,
Amsterdam, April 20: S. Pemberton.
•RDF/XHTML, XML Europe, April 21: S.
Pemberton.
•2D Web Graphics: SVG, Presentation at the
MIT, Cambridge, USA, April 27: I. Herman.
•SVG Tutorial, Public Tutorial Organized by
the ACM Boston Chapter, Cambridge, USA,
May 1: I. Herman.
•XForms and the Semantic Web, The Seman-
tic Web and User Interfaces Workshop, New
York, May 18: S. Pemberton.
•Web Forms - XForms 1.0, WWW2004, New
York, May 19: S. Pemberton.
•Why Do XForms Now (Panel), WWW2004,
New York, May 20: S. Pemberton.
•XForms Developers Day, WWW2004, New
York, May 22: S. Pemberton.
•XForms for Web Applications, Web applica-
tionss workshop, San Jose, June 2: S. Pember-
ton.
•Tutorial on Basic SW Technologies, Public Tu-
torial Organized by the W3C German and
Austrian Office, Sankt Augustin, Germany,
June 8: I. Herman.
•Current developments at W3C, and the Se-
mantic Web. Invited talk at the KRTNET 2004
Conference, Seoul, Korea, 24 June: I. Herman.
•Questions (and Answers) on the Semantic
Web. Invited talk at the Workshop ‘Ontolo-
gier i arbete’ Workshop, Kista, Sweden, Au-
gust 31: I. Herman.
•Towards the Semantic Web. Tutorial at the
Web Intelligence Symposium at the STeP-2004
Conference, Helsinki, Finland, September 2: I.
Herman.
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2. •XHTML, XForms, and the Mobile Web (Keynote),
Nokia Technical Conference, Helsinki, Septem-
ber 14: S. Pemberton.
•XForms: Improving the Web Forms Experi-
ence (Tutorial), User Experience 2004, Las Ve-
gas, October 6: S. Pemberton.
•Styling the New Web Using CSS (Tutorial),
User Experience 2004, Las Vegas, October 8:
S. Pemberton.
•Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies, Uni-
versities of Oviedo and Bilbao, Spain, Novem-
ber 2–5: I. Herman.
•XForms: Improving the Web Forms Experi-
ence (Tutorial), User Experience 2004, Amster-
dam, November 4: S. Pemberton.
•Styling the New Web Using CSS (Tutorial),
User Experience 2004, Amsterdam, November
6: S. Pemberton.
•2D Web Graphics: SVG, invited talk at the
Media Elements 2004 event, Enschede, the
Netherlands, November 12: I. Herman.
•XForms, AOL, Washington DC, November 11:
S. Pemberton.
•Questions (and Answers) on Semantic Web,
invited talk at the W3C Day of the Evolve
2004 Conference, Brisbane, Australia, Decem-
ber 7: I. Herman.
•XML to the Desktop (Keynote), XML Holland,
Hilversum, December 9: S. Pemberton.
Visits to conferences, workshops, sym-
posia
•W3C Technical Plenary, Cannes, March 3: S.
Pemberton.
•XForms Industry Briefing, London, April 6: S.
Pemberton.
•XML Europe, Amsterdam, April 18–21: S.
Pemberton.
•Seybold e-forms Summit, Amsterdam, April
20: S. Pemberton.
•CHI 2004, Vienna, April 25–29: S. Pemberton.
•WWW2004, New York, May 17–22: S. Pem-
berton.
•Web Applications Workshop, San Jose, June
1–2: S. Pemberton.
•Nokia Technical Conference, Helsinki, Septem-
ber 14: S. Pemberton.
•User Experience Conference, Las Vegas, Octo-
ber 4–8: S. Pemberton.
•User Experience Conference, Amsterdam,
November 2–6: S. Pemberton.
•S. Pemberton, W3C10, Boston, December 1.
Project meetings
•HTML Working Group meeting, Cannes,
France, March 1–2, March 4–5: S. Pemberton.
•HTML Working Group meeting, Victoria,
Canada, March 7–9: S. Pemberton.
•Forms Working Group meeting, Victoria,
Canada, March 9–11: S. Pemberton.
HTML Workin Group meeting, Edinburgh,
UK, September 6–8: S. Pemberton.
•Forms Working Group meeting, Edinburgh,
UK, September 8–10: S. Pemberton.
•HTML Working Group meeting, Dulles, USA,
November 8–10: S. Pemberton.
•Forms Working Group meeting, Dulles, USA,
November 10–12: S. Pemberton.
•W3C Interaction Domain meeting, Boston,
USA, November 30: S. Pemberton.
•W3C Advisory Committee meeting, Boston,
USA, December 2–3: S. Pemberton.
•W3C Team meeting, Boston, USA, December
4: S. Pemberton.
Memberships of committees
and other professional activities
I. Herman
•Member of International World Wide Web
Conference Committee (IW3C2).
•Member of the editorial board of the journal
Computer Graphics Forum.
•Member of the programme committee of the
Eurographics’2004 Conference.
S. Pemberton
•Editor-in-chief, ACM/interactions.
•Chair, W3C HTML Working Group.
•Chair, W3C Forms Working Group.
•Member of ACM SIGCHI executive commit-
tee.
•Member of technical programme committee
AVI 2004 (Advanced Visual Interfaces).
•Member of panels programme committee
WWW 2004 (World Wide Web Conference).
•Member of technical programme committee
XML Europe 2004.
•Member of W3C10 programme committee.
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3. INS1
Academic publications
Publications in other journals or pro-
ceeeding and other scientific output
Unrefereed (electronic) journals or proceed-
ings
1 S. Pemberton (2004). Scratching someone
else’s itch: (why open source can’t do us-
ability) Interactions, XI(1).
2 S. Pemberton (2004). The Power of Two In-
teractions, XI(4).
3 S. Pemberton (2004). Things that stay us
from the swift completion of our appointed
tasks (revisited) XI(6).
Professional products
Publications for a broad audience
1 S. Pemberton (2004). XForms, the Next Gen-
eration of Web Forms, ERCIM News 56i, 8.
Database Architectures and Information Access – INS1
Mission
The work carried out in the research team INS1 is focused on bridging the gap between database archi-
tectures developed for applications in a peer-2-peer (P2P) setting and the need to scale algorithms for
multimedia information retrieval beyond a few thousand elements. Such a multidisciplinary approach
is considered pivotal to make progress in both scientific fields.
The research line on multimedia information retrieval aims at developing a multimedia database
system, which can offer a high level of abstraction to both developers of end-user applications and re-
searchers working on content analysis techniques. At the core of such a system we envision a sound
and flexible probabilistic model to steer the retrieval process, integrated with query optimizers and ker-
nel functionality.
The advanced database architectures research thread is focused on the key challenges posed by P2P
networks as a platform for distributed and heterogeneous datamanagement. This involves research
in all architectural components of a contemporary DBMS to assess, enrich, or replace it to cope with
the ad-hoc nature of said networks. A key scientific challenge is to find the proper balance between
theoretical optimal solutions in the context of hard resource limitations and application demands.
Both research lines are supported by activities geared at bridging the technology gap itself using
our MonetDB experimentation platform. This involves research into novel ways (algorithms, datas-
tructures and software stack) to exploit the potential power of custom hardware and research in query
optimization (language specific, adaptive, cost-models) to achieve a more modular solution. The sys-
tem is widely distributed to provide others a sound and modern database platform, but also to import
user experiences on the choices made.
Theme leader
Prof.dr. M.L. Kersten
MSC or CR classification
H.3.1, H.3.3, H.2.4, H.2, E.1, E.5, H.2.8, I.1.5
Subthemes
Name Leader
INS1.1 – Multimedia Databases A.P. de Vries INS1.2 – Database Architectures P.A. Boncz
INS1.3 – Query Languages & Optimization S. Manegold
INS1.4 – MonetDB Dissemination N.J. Nes
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