Conference program DTD and Transformations

This package provides the capability of encoding in one comprehensive XML file the program of a conference and to generate the web pages for the program and for accessing various formats.

It is an effort towards helping the production of data encoded in semantic web formats (RDF, DAML) and data that can be used by Personal Information Management (PIM) devices.

Content of the package

This directory contains

confpgm.dtd

The DTD for conference programs

form-daml.xsl

XSLT Stylesheet from confpgm to DAML

form-htab.xsl

XSLT Stylesheet from confpgm to table-based HTML overview

form-html.xsl

XSLT Stylesheet from confpgm to HTML

form-rdf.xsl

XSLT Stylesheet from confpgm to RDF/iCal

form-vcal.xsl

XSLT Stylesheet from confpgm to vCal (obsolete)

form-vxml.xsl

XSLT Stylesheet from confpgm to XML/vCal

form-xvcs.xsl

XSLT Stylesheet from XML/vCal to vCal

index.html

This file

stripDetails.xsl

This file is generated by Transmorpher is strips details from the confpgm files. It is a regular XSLT stylesheet and can be processed without Transmorpher.

An example: 2002 European Conference on Artificial Intelligence program

The example starts from the source file written in XML:

program.xml

The program expressed in the confpgm DTD

form-iswc.xsl

Layout of the ISWC pages in which the result is inserted

process.xml

The Transmorpher process

$ java -jar transmo.jar process.xml

overview.html

A general, table-based, HTML presentation of the program

overview.rdf

A general RDF encoding of the program

program.daml

A detailled DAML encoding of the program

program.html

A detailled HTML presentation of the program

program.vcs

A detailled vCalendar presentation of the program

If you do not have Transmorpher, you can download it or use the XSLT stylesheet as usual, they are genuine XSLT (1.0) stylesheet.

Conferences powered by confpgm

• 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2002)
• 1st STarting Artificial Intelligence Researchers Symposium (STAIRS 2002)
• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2002)
• 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003)
• 2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2005)

Tools that accept Confpgm formats

• HTTP clients should accept HTML
• Palm desktop 4.0 accepts vCal
• Outlook accepts vCal
• Calendar X accepts vCal
• Retsina Calendar accepts RDF/iCal

Support

The development of this package has been partially supported by the Ontoweb thematic network.

Frequently Expected Questions

What is PimLib?

PimLib is supposed to be a set of tools for helping personnal information management. It will feature, in a first attempt, categories for places, events, persons, organizations, references. It should be:

• Loadable in pocket devices
• Highly interlinked
• Compatible with internet and semantic web standards

What is Transmorpher?

Transmorpher, in this case, can be though of as a portable transformation aggregation program. It allows the single-line processing of a complex transformation made of the chaining of elementary transformations declared in an XML file.

Transmorpher is available separately at http://transmorpher.inrialpes.fr.