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Successful PROV Tutorial at EDBT

On March 20th, 2013 members of the  Provenance Working Group gave a tutorial on the  PROV family of specifications at the EDBT conference in Genova, Italy. EDBT (“Extending Database Technology”) is widely regarded as one of the prime venues in Europe for dissemination of data management research. The idea behind the tutorial was to provide a “database-centric” […]
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PROV Tutorial

At last week’s International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, the Provenance Working Group gave a tutorial on the PROV family of specifications. This is the first time we’ve given a comprehensive overview of the specs. The 3 hour tutorial was well attended with 28 participants from industry, academia and government. There was great interactivity – lots […]
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Once Upon A Time, Web Standards Curriculum

Once upon a time, we started the Quality Assurance activity at W3C in 2001, one of the objectives was to find a way to improve the materials for communicating with Web developers. In the QA group, Snorre M. Grimsby (Opera) told me that we might find resources for producing educational materials. The discussion became quiet for a while and restarted in June 2006 with David Storey (Opera). As the same time, some people at WASP started a survey for defining requirements for a Web Standards Curriculum.
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EXI stance

XML is a popular language when it comes to sharing data. Surely, its human-readability was a key to its adoption in a wide range of applications, and as such it can be easily inferred that this feature has to be...
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