Web 2.0 at XML Prague

This coming week-end, I’ll have the pleasure to be at XML Prague, a small and friendly XML conference in a wonderful city.

This year, I’ll leave out my usual XML schema languages expert hat to speak on two topics:

• An experience to define a RDF/XML Query By Example language. This presentation relates a very cool project that I am developing for one of my customers (INSEE) and that I have also presented at Extreme Markup Languages last year. It is very on topic with the focus of XML Prague this year which is « XML Native Databases and Querying XML ».
• Web 2.0: myth and reality, a presentation derived from the blog entry with the same title. Even though people could probably argue that Web 2.0 is about making a web that can be queried, this talk will probably be felt more out of topic. I hope it will still be well received and look forward to delivering it in Prague.

XML Prague 2005 had also been an opportunity to see Prague that I hadn’t seen since… 1981… (I can tell you that so many things had changed that I could hardly recognize the city) and also to meet many members from an active and creative Eastern European XML community with whom I had often exchanged emails but had had few opportunities to meet face to face.

I have no doubt XML Prague 2006 will be as fun as its preceding issue.