Fwd: Center for Document Engineering Established at UC Berkeley

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

This is the announcement I mentioned at the end 
of our meeting. I will eventually look into it. 
Maybe even this week, but for now, I have to 
finish up WSRP and try to get organized for the 
next batch of that work along with HPCDML.

This Document-Centric approach is dear to Owen 
Ambur's viewpoint for a lot of very good reasons, 
so I suggested it to Russell as something he 
might want to bone up on for later this month.

Ciao,
Rex

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>CENTER FOR DOCUMENT ENGINEERING ESTABLISHED AT UC BERKELEY
>
>Focal point for initiatives in XML and 
>model-based approaches for automatable, 
>standards- based business computing
>
>Berkeley, CA  September 15, 2003.  UC Berkeleyís 
>School of Information Management and Systems 
>(SIMS) and the e-Berkeley Program have 
>established the Center for Document Engineering 
>(CDE). The CDE's mission is "to invent, 
>evaluate, and promote model-driven technologies 
>and methods" that allow business semantics to 
>drive IT systems.
>
>The CDEís origins date to Spring 2002 when SIMS 
>became the first academic institution in the 
>world to teach courses on Document Engineering, 
>emphasizing analysis and design methods that 
>yield XML-encodable models of business processes 
>and business documents. A collaboration with the 
>e-Berkeley Program began soon afterwards because 
>of the natural fit with e-Berkeley's goal of 
>using the Web to transform the Universityís 
>information-intensive operations.
>
>Dr. Robert Glushko, an Adjunct Professor at SIMS 
>and an XML industry veteran, is the Director of 
>the CDE.  Glushko said, ěThe complex legacy 
>computing environment of the University is a 
>perfect test bed for XML, information 
>architecture, and web services and the 
>E-Berkeley program is a perfect partner for an 
>academic research team.î   Jon Conhaim, who 
>heads the E-Berkeley program, will serve as 
>Associate Director of the CDE.
>
>An advisory board whose members come from 
>academic units, campus computing organizations, 
>and industry will help set priorities and define 
>project goals.  Board member Hal Varian, 
>formerly the Dean of SIMS and a professor of 
>economics and business, said ěthe new Center for 
>Document Engineering will provide a valuable 
>research facility for our faculty and training 
>ground for our students. The technology that has 
>been developed at CDE will be a major 
>contribution to information management in 
>organizations.î
>
>Board member Shel Waggoner, UC Berkeleyís 
>Director of Central Computing Services, 
>suggested that ěthe Center for Document 
>Engineering offers a unique opportunity for 
>research, academic, administrative groups to 
>work collectively on real world challenges faced 
>by decentralized enterprises. The models 
>developed by the CDE will dramatically reduce 
>the time and cost of building new applications 
>and help enterprises minimize the duplication of 
>systems so prevalent in today's distributed 
>environments."
>
>The CDE will create, collect, and disseminate 
>XML schemas, software, best practices, and other 
>content for building web services and 
>applications that allow business semantics to 
>drive IT systems and automate business processes.
>
>"I'm delighted to see Berkeley take the lead in 
>the emerging discipline of document engineering, 
>which will be critical to the development of the 
>data standards on which the next generation of 
>electronic commerce systems will be 
>constructed," said Jon Bosak of Sun 
>Microsystems, leader of the working groups that 
>created the XML and the Universal Business 
>Language (UBL). "An enlightened public policy 
>requires the existence of unbiased centers for 
>the development and vendor-neutral evaluation of 
>technologies for business data modeling. The 
>establishment of the Center for Document 
>Engineering represents a milestone in the 
>development of our future business 
>infrastructure and a model for the creation of 
>similar programs in other colleges and 
>universities.î
>
>The first initiative of the CDE is the Berkeley 
>Academic Business Language (BABL), an evolving 
>set of models and associated XML schemas for the 
>domain of University education and operations. 
>A second major CDE initiative is an XML 
>application platform that uses models like those 
>in BABL to implement enterprise-class 
>applications whose core data-models are encoded 
>in XML.  This platform allows developers to 
>represent data models, business rules, workflow 
>specifications, and user interfaces as 
>externalized XML documents, rather than mixing 
>and scattering them throughout application code. 
>This will make it easier for nonprogrammers to 
>design, develop, and maintain forms and 
>workflow-based Internet applications.
>
>The Center for Document Engineering is located 
>at http://cde.berkeley.edu.  Organizations or 
>individuals interested in becoming sponsors or 
>research affiliates of the CDE are invited to 
>contact Dr. Robert Glushko, 
>Glushko@sims.berkeley.edu (510-643-2754) or Jon 
>Conhaim, conhaim@uclink.berkeley.edu 
>(510-643-2255).


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