Faculty 2012

Our lec­tur­ers are hand picked for their in-depth expert­ise and abil­ity to con­vey their exper­i­ences to max­im­ise the learn­ing exper­i­ence of our del­eg­ates. They also are friendly, approach­able and able to have a good laugh! The intens­ive, yet informal, atmo­sphere at the XML Sum­mer School gives del­eg­ates the oppor­tun­ity to pick the brains of our expert fac­ulty, both dur­ing the classes and after­wards over din­ner or in the bar.

Fac­ulty Board mem­bers also teach.

Adam Ret­ter

Adam Ret­ter is co-director of eXist Solu­tions GmbH, which provides sup­port and con­sultancy for the open source eXist Nat­ive XML Data­base and web plat­form. With over a dec­ades exper­i­ence in build­ing online web applic­a­tions, hav­ing star­ted with Perl, CGI, and C++ ISAPI mov­ing up through to .NET, PHP and J2EE, today he is much hap­pier doing the same using XQuery, XSLT and XForms.Adam is an invited expert on the W3C XQuery Work­ing Group, where he focuses on rep­res­ent­ing the Open Source com­munit­ies interests and advan­cing XQuery for com­plete web applic­a­tion development.

Adam is a strong pro­ponent of XML Applic­a­tion Server archi­tec­tures, where entire applic­a­tions are built in XML tech­no­lo­gies and power enter­prise scale end-to-end XML and XRX Applic­a­tions. To fur­ther stand­ard­ise XML applic­a­tion devel­op­ment, Adam foun­ded the EXQuery pro­ject in early 2009 and has since been work­ing with the com­munity and as part of the EXPath pro­ject to stand­ard­ise and improve XML applic­a­tion devel­op­ment with XQuery, XSLT and XPath.

Adam’s homepage is at http://www.adamretter.org.uk.

Alistair Miles

Alistair Miles is a mem­ber of the inform­at­ics team at the Centre for Gen­om­ics and Global Health, based at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genet­ics in Oxford. He is involved in the design and devel­op­ment of Web-based sys­tems for MalariaGEN.

Alistair joined the Kwi­atkowski group in 2009. Prior to that, he worked for the Sci­ence and Tech­no­logy Facil­it­ies Council’s e-Science Centre, and for the Zoology Depart­ment, Uni­ver­sity of Oxford, primar­ily on the devel­op­ment and applic­a­tion of Web stand­ards for shar­ing and link­ing of sci­entific data.

Dr. Andy Seaborne

Andy has been work­ing on the stor­age and query of RDF data, first as a researcher at HPLabs, and now at Epi­morph­ics.Andy is con­tinu­ing his par­ti­cip­a­tion in the SPARQL stand­ard­iz­a­tion pro­cess. He star­ted as a mem­ber of the W3C RDF Data Access Work­ing Group and is a mem­ber of the cur­rent W3C SPARQL Work­ing Group. Andy co-edits the query lan­guage spe­cific­a­tion and lead the pro­posal sub­mis­sion for SPARQL Update and is a mem­ber of the W3C RDF Work­ing Group.He also works on Apache Jena, an open source RDF frame­work for Java, where he con­trib­uted the query engine, ensur­ing that com­plete imple­ment­a­tions of the stand­ards are avail­able, and sev­eral per­sist­ent stor­age sub-systems.

Andy has a PhD in Com­puter Sci­ence from the Com­puter Labor­at­ory at the Uni­ver­sity of Cambridge.

Debbie Lapeyre

Ms. Lapeyre has been work­ing with XML, XSLT, and XPath since their incep­tion and with SGML (XML’s pre­de­cessor) since 1984. Debbie is an archi­tect and developer of XML Tag Sets (vocab­u­lar­ies) who designs and writes the schemas (DTD, XSD, RELAX NG) that model those vocab­u­lar­ies. Most recently, she serves as the archi­tect and as a mem­ber of the design team for the NLM Journal Archiv­ing and Inter­change Tag Suite, now the de facto stand­ard for tag­ging journal art­icles worldwide.As a document-oriented pub­lish­ing ana­lyst, Debbie helps cli­ents to ana­lyze their inform­a­tion man­age­ment, retrieval, and distribution/publication require­ments and trans­lates these require­ments into func­tion­ing pro­duc­tion sys­tems, based on XML tech­no­lo­gies. As a senior XSLT and XSL-FO con­sult­ant for Mul­berry Tech­no­lo­gies, Inc., she designs both pages and spe­cific­a­tions for com­plex XSLT trans­forms and stylesheets as well as devel­ops pro­to­type XSLT applications.Debbie is a mem­ber of the XML Guild. She is also a co-chair of “Bal­is­age: The Markup Con­fer­ence” and has pre­vi­ously co-chaired “Extreme Markup Lan­guages”, “Markup Tech­no­lo­gies”, and the annual inter­na­tional “SGML/XML’XX Con­fer­ence”. She teaches XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, Schemat­ron, What-is-XML-and-Why-Should-You-Care, and XML print work­flows at ven­ues all over the English-speaking world.

Eric van der Vlist

Eric is an inde­pend­ent con­sult­ant and trainer. His domains of expert­ise include Web devel­op­ment and XML tech­no­lo­gies. He is the cre­ator and main editor of XMLfr.org, the main site ded­ic­ated to XML tech­no­lo­gies in French, the author of the O’Reilly animal books on XML Schema and RELAX NG and was a mem­ber of the ISO DSDL (http://dsdl.org) work­ing group focused on XML schema lan­guages. He lives in Paris and you can reach him by mail (vdv@dyomedea.com) or meet him at one of the many con­fer­ences where he presents his projects.

Florent Georges

Florent Georges is the founder and CTO of H2O Con­sult­ing. He has been involved in the XML world for 10 years, espe­cially within the XSLT and XQuery com­munit­ies. He is an invited expert in the XSL work­ing group at W3C. His main interests are in the field of XSLT and XQuery exten­sions and lib­rar­ies, pack­aging, unit and func­tional test­ing, and port­ab­il­ity between sev­eral pro­cessors. Since the begin­ning of 2009, he has worked on EXPath, to define “stand­ard” exten­sion func­tion lib­rar­ies that can be used in XPath (so in XSLT, XQuery and XProc as well).

Florent’s web­site is at http://h2oconsulting.be/.

Gary Cor­nelius

Gary Cor­nelius is an exper­i­enced XML con­sult­ant and inform­a­tion archi­tect, work­ing for Reed Elsevier Tech­no­logy Ser­vices. Gary has been an act­ive con­trib­utor to XML mail­ing lists and stand­ards for over a dec­ade and enjoys tech­nical pro­ject man­age­ment involving XML. He has developed sev­eral XML and web related train­ing courses for IT engin­eers and man­agers. Inter­ested in data visu­al­isa­tion and usab­il­ity, he has invest­ig­ated many tools and tech­niques for visu­al­iz­a­tion of com­plex XML data. Gary has both broad know­ledge and hands-on exper­i­ence of XML hav­ing worked across many mar­ket sec­tors on XML inform­a­tion archi­tec­tures. He stud­ied pub­lish­ing, graphic com­mu­nic­a­tion man­age­ment, and digital imaging.

Gra­ham Klyne

After obtain­ing a degree in Applied Math­em­at­ics, Gra­ham Klyne has been a soft­ware developer for many years, work­ing on a vari­ety of applic­a­tions from sci­entific meas­ure­ment to indus­trial pro­cess con­trol, cur­rency trad­ing net­works to engin­eer­ing design soft­ware, and points between. Along the way, he has learned a vari­ety of soft­ware skills from pro­gram­ming early micro­pro­cessors in machine code and C to semantic web applic­a­tions in Python and Haskell. He has also con­trib­uted to sev­eral Inter­net and Web stand­ards, includ­ing the spe­cific­a­tions for RDF, and is cur­rently work­ing at Oxford Uni­ver­sity on using semantic web tech­no­lo­gies and more for man­aging research data.

Dr. Jeni Tennison

Dr. Jeni Ten­nison is an inde­pend­ent con­sult­ant. She spe­cial­ises in XSLT and XML schema devel­op­ment with for­ays into AJAX and RDF. She trained as a know­ledge engin­eer, gain­ing a PhD in col­lab­or­at­ive onto­logy devel­op­ment, and since becom­ing a con­sult­ant has worked in a wide vari­ety of areas, includ­ing journal pub­lish­ing, medi­eval manu­scripts, legis­la­tion and fin­an­cial ser­vices. She is author of sev­eral books includ­ing “Begin­ning XSLT 2.0” (Apress, 2005).Jeni was an invited expert on the W3C’s XSL Work­ing Group dur­ing the devel­op­ment of XSLT 2.0 and was one of the founders of the EXSLT ini­ti­at­ive to stand­ard­ise exten­sions to XSLT and XPath.

Jo Rabin

Jo is CTO at Sponge Group as well as being Dir­ector of Mobile Monday Lon­don and The Mobile Academy. He is a Chartered Engineer.

His exper­i­ence includes being CTO at dot­Mobi, Flir­to­matic and at Reu­ters Mobile. While at Reu­ters, Jo developed the first ver­sion of the news industry inter­change stand­ard, NewsML and was respons­ible for the devel­op­ment of the Reu­ters for­eign exchange deal­ing sys­tem. Before that he helped start the UK’s first pub­lic elec­tronic mail sys­tem, Tele­com Gold.

Jo’s cur­rently co-chair of the W3C Core­mob Com­munity Group which is chartered to accel­er­ate the adop­tion of the mobile Web as a com­pel­ling plat­form for the devel­op­ment of mod­ern mobile Web applic­a­tions. From 2005 to 2010 he co-chaired the W3C Mobile Web Best Prac­tices Work­ing Group. He wrote and edited many W3C mobile Web related Recom­mend­a­tions and Notes and vari­ous other publications.

Leigh Dodds

Leigh Dodds is a freel­ance con­sult­ant spe­cial­ising in Open and Linked Data. Leigh Dodds has sig­ni­fic­ant exper­i­ence work­ing with Semantic Web and Web tech­no­lo­gies in many dif­fer­ent roles and is pas­sion­ate about the web, open stand­ards and open data. Leigh was respons­ible for tech­nical and product strategy around Talis’s data host­ing and pub­lish­ing products, as well as launch­ing their Linked Data con­sult­ing ser­vices. He has writ­ten about and spoken widely on a range of semantic web top­ics, includ­ing SPARQL, Linked Data, man­aging and aggreg­at­ing data on the web, and build­ing semantic web applications.

Dr. Marc Hadley

Dr. Marc J. Had­ley is a Prin­cipal Engin­eer with the Mitre Cor­por­a­tion, a not-for-profit organ­iz­a­tion that per­forms research and devel­op­ment for the United States Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment. Since join­ing MITRE, Marc has worked on a vari­ety of healthcare-oriented pro­jects includ­ing popHealth (a sys­tem for meas­ur­ing clin­ical qual­ity) and hQuery (a sys­tem to sup­port large scale dis­trib­uted quer­ies of health information).

Prior to join­ing MITRE, Marc was a Java and Web Ser­vices Archi­tect at Sun Microsys­tems where he lead the devel­op­ment of JSRs for REST­ful and SOAP-based Web ser­vices. Marc also rep­res­en­ted Sun in sev­eral stand­ards groups at both the W3C and WS-I.

Matt Pat­ter­son

Matt Pat­ter­son has over 10 years exper­i­ence build­ing for the web, from web design and front-end devel­op­ment all the way through to back-end devel­op­ment. Along the way he’s co-written a book on CSS, which is cur­rently in its second edi­tion and has been trans­lated into Italian and Span­ish, led a soft­ware team at the BBC, and spent five of the last ten years run­ning design– and development-focussed con­sultan­cies. He was also a co-organiser of the NoSQL Europe conference.

His con­sultancy is Con­stitu­ent Parts.

Nor­man (Norm) Walsh

Nor­man Walsh is a Lead Engin­eer at Mark­Lo­gic Cor­por­a­tion where he works with the Applic­a­tion Ser­vices team. Norm is also an act­ive par­ti­cipant in a num­ber of stand­ards efforts world­wide: he is chair of the XML Pro­cessing Model Work­ing Group at the W3C where he is also co-chair of the XML Core Work­ing Group. At OASIS, he is chair of the Doc­Book Tech­nical Committee.With almost twenty years of industry exper­i­ence, Norm is well known for his work on Doc­Book and a wide range of open source pro­jects. He is the author of Doc­Book: The Defin­it­ive Guide.

Paul Downey

Paul Downey is a Tech­nical Archi­tect with the Gov­ern­ment Digital Ser­vice, build­ing Gov.UK. Formerly he was a mem­ber of Osmosoft, a small Open Source Innov­a­tion team at BT, where he con­trib­uted to a num­ber of Open Source pro­jects, not­ably Tiddly­Wiki. He par­ti­cip­ated in the stand­ard­isa­tion of XML and Web ser­vices at the W3C, WS-I and OASIS. Paul likes to evan­gel­ise the value of REST and the Web through code, present­a­tions and uber-doodles such as the mildly notori­ous The Web is Agree­ment.

Sebastian Rahtz

Sebastian Rahtz is Dir­ector (Research) of Aca­demic Sup­port, IT Ser­vices, Uni­ver­sity of Oxford and he over­sees the teams respons­ible for web, mobile apps, help desk, IT staff liaison, and devel­op­ment pro­jects. He has been closely asso­ci­ated with the Text Encod­ing Ini­ti­at­ive for the last dec­ade as a mem­ber of its Tech­nical Coun­cil, archi­tect of its revised metas­chema sys­tem, and author of a lib­rary of XSL trans­forms for TEI doc­u­ments (includ­ing the Guidelines doc­u­ment­a­tion and its schemas). Since 2008 he has been part of the team devel­op­ing CLAROS (“the world of ancient art on the semantic web”) at Oxford, for which he leads the Meta­morph­oses sub-project which to man­age its place and name link­ing. He is a bigot for open source, XML, TEI, XSL and (lat­terly) RDF and linked data.

Sebastian has a degree in Clas­sics and Mod­ern Greek from Oxford and an MA in Archae­ology from Lon­don. He worked as a field archae­olo­gist, was a com­puter sci­ence lec­turer at Southamp­ton (where he was an early teacher of human­it­ies com­put­ing, and archae­olo­gical com­put­ing), and had a stint as pub­lic­a­tion meth­ods spe­cial­ist for Elsevier Sci­ence. He spent much of the 1990s in the world of the TeX type­set­ting system.Sebastian has co-authored two books on TeX, edited many sets of con­fer­ence pro­ceed­ings, writ­ten many art­icles, is the author of a slew of TeX– and TEI-related soft­ware, has presen­ted at many archae­olo­gical com­put­ing, TeX and XML con­fer­ences, and taught prac­tical courses around the world.

Tom Scott

Tom Scott is a digital product man­ager with extens­ive exper­i­ence of deliv­er­ing innov­at­ive Web pro­ject. Tom was an early adop­ter of both the Web (he pub­lished his first Web page in 1994) and Semantic Web tech­no­lo­gies (pub­lish­ing his first RDF in 2000) Tom con­tin­ues to deliver Web sites, across both the private and pub­lic sec­tor, tar­geted to user and busi­ness needs com­bin­ing detailed tech­nical know­ledge and edit­or­ial leadership.

Tom cur­rently works as the Head of Plat­form in the nature.com team where he is respons­ible for NPG’s core Web pub­lish­ing activ­it­ies — includ­ing search, mobile apps, developer pro­gramme, user regis­tra­tion and art­icle improvement.

Prior to join­ing NPG Tom worked for the BBC where he has exec­ut­ive respons­ib­il­ity for the BBC’s nature site (bbc.co.uk/nature) incor­por­at­ing a major Linked Data and video pub­lish­ing ele­ment (bbc.co.uk/nature/wildlife). Prior to this he man­aged the deliver of the BBC’s pro­gramme sup­port site (bbc.co.uk/programmes) a Web site that pub­lishes a page for every pro­gramme the BBC broad­casts and the BBC’s music site (bbc.co.uk/music) a Web site, integ­rated into the BBC broad­cast sys­tems and BBC Pro­grammes. All three sites are often held up as exem­plary pro­jects within the Linked Data community.

Tom reg­u­larly speaks at inter­na­tional con­fer­ences on Linked Data, Web pub­lish­ing and Domain Driven Design; includ­ing the Web’s 20th birth­day cel­eb­ra­tions at CERN in 2009 (http://info.cern.ch/www20/).

Tony Gra­ham

Tony Gra­ham is an inde­pend­ent con­sult­ant who has been work­ing with markup since 1991, with XML since 1996, and with XSL/XSLT since 1998. He is an invited expert on the W3C Work­ing Group defin­ing the XSL FO spe­cific­a­tion, an acknow­ledged expert in XSLT, developer of the open source xml­roff XSL format­ter, a com­mit­ter to both the XSpec and Juxy XSLT test­ing frame­works, the author of “Uni­code: A Primer”, a mem­ber of the XML Guild, and a qual­i­fied trainer.

Tony’s career in XML and SGML spans Japan, USA, and Ire­land, work­ing with data in Eng­lish, Chinese, Japan­ese, and Korean, and with aca­demic, auto­mot­ive, pub­lish­ing, soft­ware, and tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions applic­a­tions. He has also spoken about XML, XSLT, XSL FO, EPUB, and related tech­no­lo­gies to cli­ents and con­fer­ences in North Amer­ica, Europe, and Australia.