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SESSIONTopic Maps: a technical perspective |
| Chair |
 Pepper, Steve  |
| Steve Pepper |
| Senior Information Architect |
| Norway Oslo STEP Infotek | STEP Infotek ,
Oslo
Norway
email: pepper@infotek.no |
| Biographical information: |
| Steve Pepper - Steve Pepper is the Senior Information Architect at STEP Infotek, a company in the STEP group (based in Germany, Hungary, Norway, Poland and the UK) specialising in standards-based information reengineering. He represents Norway on JTC 1/SC 34, the ISO committee responsible for the development of SGML and related standards, and is convenor of WG 3 (Information association), whose responsibilities include the HyTime and Topic Map standards. A frequent speaker at SGML and XML events around the world, he is the author and maintainer of the "Whirlwind Guide to SGML and XML tools" and co-author (with Charles Goldfarb and Chet Ensign) of the "SGML Buyer's Guide" (Prentice-Hall, 1998). |
| Newcomb, Steven R. |
| Steven R. Newcomb |
| President |
| Plano TechnoTeacher, Inc Texas USA | TechnoTeacher, Inc ,
Plano
Texas
USA
email: srn@techno.com |
| Biographical information: |
| Steven R. Newcomb - Principal in TechnoTeacher Inc., a software developer specializing in ISO-standards-based tools for information management systems integrators and software applications developers, with licensees in telecommunications, computers, defense, education, energy, publishing, government, and aerospace. Co-editor of ISO/IEC 10743:1996 Standard Music Description Language (SMDL). Co-editor of ISO/IEC 10744:1992 (and 10744:1997) Hypermedia Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime). Design Team Member, US Navy Metafile for Interactive Documents. Founding Conference Chair, International HyTime Conference, 1994-1997. Conference Co-chair (with Carla Corkern) of the successor Metastructures conference, 1998-. Founding Chairman, Conventions for the Application of HyTime (CApH) activity of the Graphic Communications Association Research Institute, the original developer of the Topic Map paradigm, and co-editor of ISO/IEC 13250:1999, the Topic Maps information architecture. Chief Technology Director, XML Mortgage Partners, 1999-. |
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