OASIS Events

Open Publish 2008 will be focusing on management and implementation issues relating to publishing technology based on open standards. Covering critical ideas such as wikis, blogs, single-sourcing data and content management, Open Publish will discuss these topics from the perspective of best practices, project methodologies and human / usability factors rather than simply technology. With the objective of fostering a greater sense of community for managers, developers and production staff, Open Publish aims to offer the informal collaboration of a user group combined with presentations from the leading thinkers and practitioners in publishing.

Balisage is a peer reviewed conference designed to meet the needs of markup theoreticians and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of the field. It's all about the markup: how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space) — in short, changing the world and the web through the power of marked-up information.

OASIS initiated this international conference, which is being co-hosted by ISO, IEC, ITU-T, OASIS, UN/ECE-UN/CEFACT and UPU. The event aims to foster a better understanding of the public-private partnerships through which stakeholders collaborate to develop e-business standards. In particular, the program will identify steps forward that might significantly enhance the benefits of recent achievements and work in progress as well as address emerging new requirements. More details will be available soon.

In today's Internet and in many large private network infrastructures, heterogeneity and diversity are the rule rather than the exception. Security infrastructures need open standards and interoperability to scale to the huge deployments that are being rolled out today. Some of these security standards from OASIS and other organizations support a model where identity authentication, access control, digital signature processing, encryption and key management are provided as services that can be distributed and shared. The Open Standards Forum 2008 will provide users who are evaluating or looking to deploy such security infrastructures with an opportunity to explore the state of the art in security services, standards and products. It will also provide users with an opportunity to present and share their use cases, requirements and (initial) experience with other users and with some of the leading experts in this field. OASIS invites proposals for presentations, panel sessions, tutorials, interoperability demonstration related to security challenges for the information society, and on standards and solutions that are being developed to address them.

This conference is for users. It is about addressing the technical innovations that are needed as structured documentation makes major inroads in this industry. By combining both the technical ideas of DITA and XML with the publishing tools related to technical communications, in four focused days you'll get the solutions you need to publish faster, smarter, and better. Come join us for what has been described in a recent STC article as an "anti-conference", an event focused on users with real technical needs. Our conference provides access to real users, real experts, and real answers. OASIS member discount is available.

This 10th event in The Standards Edge conference series will focus on how procurement policies and practices will and should affect the future of information and communications technology (ICT) and your ability to access and share information. It is critical to address these issues now as governments, businesses, and citizens build the ICT infrastructure that will become integral to the way we learn, communicate, conduct business, and deliver social services. Issues such as how government organizations should leverage ICT standardization in procurement, what involvement the WTO and WIPO should have in international procurement guidelines, and how these decisions may impact market competition will be addressed. Please join us on November 6-7, 2008, in Brussels, Belgium for this highly interactive event.