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XMLXperts; Offering the Best in
XML Consulting and Training Services
 Overview
Role of XMLXperts
Industry Standards Activities
Consulting Clients
Conference Chairmanship Activities
XML Tutorials
Papers and Presentations
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Dianne Kennedy is the founder the principal consultant of
XMLXperts. Dianne Kennedy is an independent XML/SGML Publishing
Systems Consultant, current chairperson of the SAE J2008
(automotive industry) SGML Working Group, convener of WG6 ISO
12083 (standard for journal and book publishing), and editor of
the XML Files, the first XML Magazine on the Web. As a
consultant, Ms. Kennedy delivers XML tutorials and offers
management consulting, document engineering, and publishing
system design consulting services. Ms. Kennedy is also a
technical program consultant for the Graphic Communications
Association and a member of OASIS (Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards).
Formerly Ms. Kennedy served as Vice President of SGML
Operations and Consulting for ActiveSystems, Inc. As Vice
President of SGML Operations and Consulting, Dianne Kennedy was
instrumental in overseeing SGML consulting and integration
activities. In addition, Ms Kennedy was instrumental in setting
the direction of ActiveSystems SGML Object database and context
sensitive retrieval engine, known as ActiveServer and
ActiveSearch. Other responsibilities included the development of
the corporate image and development of SGML-related sales and
marketing materials.
Ms Kennedy was also formerly employed by Frame Technology (now
owned by Adobe Systems), Datalogics Division. She served as both
Director of Technical Publishing Services and CALS Program
Manager for Frame. As Director of Technical Publishing Services
at Datalogics, Dianne Kennedy directed the technical publishing
and support services division of Datalogics. This division is
responsible for the development, support, training, and
documentation of Datalogics line of technical publishing
products. This product line provides full SGML support for
bothCALS-based and commercial technical publishing products.
Datalogics Technical Publishing Environment (TPE) product, the
United Airlines Minimum Equipment List System, and most recently
the JCALS Composer projects were directed by Ms. Kennedy.
Additionally, during her tenure as Director of Technical
Publishing Services, Ms. Kennedy founded the independent SGML
consulting group knows as SGML Services.
Ms. Kennedy has been an active participant in many industry
SGML/XML standards activities. Currently she serves as
chairperson for the DTD Working Group of SAE J2008 for the
automotive industry. She also has played a vital role as a
consultant to the ATA 100 Specification SGML working group and
has served on a number of CALS standards committees as well.
Currently Ms. Kennedy formerly a columnist for <TAG>
magazine is currently editor of the XML Files Web Magazine
and is the Chicago Director for the Midwest SGML Forum.
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Although Dianne Kennedy typically functions as an independent
XML consultant, through her company, XMLXperts, Dianne can bring
together a network of other independent consultants with just the
expertise which is required for any XML/SGML project. For
example, Ms. Kennedy might initially work with a customer to
develop an XML tag set design. She would then call on affiliated
consultants to provide expertise to convert word-processing data
into XML. Ms. Kennedy has a wide network of affiliated
consultants who can provide just the expertise required for any
project.
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CALS Working Group
In the early years of the development of the DoD CALS
standards, Ms Kennedy brought her first hand knowledge of the
design and implementation of SGML publishing systems for the
military technical documentation environment to a number of the
CALS working groups. She participated not only in the development
of the first CALS DTDs, but provided expertise through the
development of the CALS table model which is now a standard
across a number of industries. Ms Kennedy also assisted with the
development of the CALS Output Specification.
Consultant, ATA/AIA Industry Standards
Dianne Kennedy participated as a consultant to a number of
airlines and manufacturers during the development of the SGML
specification which is now published as ATA Specification 2100.
She brought her knowledge of standards, and lessons learned
throughout the development of the CALS standards into this
industry. In 1992 Dianne Kennedy was awarded the Graphics
Communication Association's TEKKI award, which honored her
outstanding achievement in the development of SGML standards for
the Airline Industry.
Chairperson, SAE J2008 DTD Committee
Since 1993, Dianne Kennedy has served as the chairperson for
the automotive industry SGML standards committee. As chairperson,
she organizes standards activities and bears responsibility for
the development of the SGML portion of the SAE J2008
Specification.
Convenor, WG6 ISO 12083
In 1996, Ms Kennedy began working with the ISO 12083 effort.
Along with GCA, she offered initial XML tutorials to the journal
publishing community and conducted numerous industry round table
discussions focusing on the application of XML to journal and
book publishing. In 1997, Ms. Kennedy was elected convenor of ISO
12083. Currently she is leading efforts to update ISO 12083 to
meet new requirements of XML and Web publishing.
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Dianne Kennedy has provided SGML/XML Publishing Consulting
services to the following organizations:
- Microsoft Corporation
- Microstar Software
- SoftQuad Inc.
- AlliedSignal Aerospace
- Underwriters Laboratories
- Commerce Clearing House
- Thomson Legal Publishing
- Research Institute of America
- Boeing Commercial Aircraft
- Bombardier Regional Aircraft
- Wayne Dresser Industries
- NewFlyer Bus Company
- Cahners Business Information
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Dianne Kennedy has actively serves to organize leading industry conference
events:
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Dianne Kennedy has served as designer/instructor to a number
of industry SGML tutorials over the past 10 years. These
tutorials include:
- Instructor, GCA SGML Tutorials, 1984 to 1991
- Instructor, GCA MIL-M-28001 Tutorials, 1989-1991
Instructor, GCA ATA-100
- Tutorials, 1990-1991 Instructor, EPSIG Electronic
Manuscript Tutorials, 1990
- Instructor, SGML Publishing Seminars, University of
Chicago 1988-1991
- Instructor ATA/AIA 89-9A Committee
- Instructor, Industry Consultant "Understanding SAE
J2008" Tutorial Series offered by the SGML Resource
Center, 1994 to1996
- Instructor, Industry Consultant "SGML for the
Editorial User", Tutorial Series offered by the SGML
Resource Center, 1994 to Present
- Instructor, "XML for Journal Publishing", GCA
Tutorial Series 1996- present
- Instructor, "SGML/XML ToolTime", GCA Tutorial
Series 1997- present
- Instructor, "XML Schemas," GCA Tutorial Series
1998 - present
- Instructor, "CSS-2 and XML", GCA Tutorial
Series 1998 - present
- Instructor "Browsing XML, CSS and XSL" Seybold Seminars
1997 - 1998
- Instructor, "ICE", GCA Tutorial Series 1999 -
Present
- Instructor, XML for Executives Tutorial Series 2000 (for InfoShark,
Inc.)
- Instructor, XML for Techies Tutorial Series 2000 (for InfoShark, Inc.)
- Instructor, Practical Topic Maps Tutorial Series 2001 (for InfoLoom,
Inc.)
- Instructor, Hands On Topic Mas Workshops 2000 (for InfoLoom, Inc.)
- Instructor, Standards for Knowledge, 2001 Workshops (for InfoLoom, Inc.)
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Dianne Kennedy has always been active as an industry
representative and spokesperson. Presentations by Ms. Kennedy
over the past 13 years include:
- SGML Applications, International Markup Conference,
Luxembourg, 1985
- SGML Conformance Testing, Panelist, TechDoc Winter, San
Antonio, 1987
- SGML Basics, Corporate Electronic Publishing Show,
Chicago, 1988
- SGML Output Methodologies, FIPS 152 Day, Washington DC,
1989
- SGML and Document Architectures, CEPS, Chicago, 1989
- SGML and Database Applications, GCA SGML '89, Atlanta,
1989
- SGML - Separating Content from Format, FIPS 152 Days,
Gaithersburg, 1990
- SGML and Electronic Data Interchange, Electronic
Contracting Conference, NCMA, Philadelphia, 1990
- SGML Application Standards, XPLOR Conference, Nashville,
1990
- Authoring - A Vision for the Future, TechDoc Winter, Palm
Springs, 1990
- SGML Application Standards Update, XPLOR Conference,
Phoenix 1991
- SGML for Airframe Manufacturers, McDonnell Douglas
Seminar, Long Beach, 1992
- SGML Applications for ATA, United Airlines Seminar, San
Francisco, 1992
- Update on ATA-100 SGML Activities, SGML '92, Boston, 1992
- SGML Standards Development, TCIF Seminar, Palm Beach,
1993
- A Whirl Wind Guide to SGML Tools, SGML '93, Boston, 1993
- SAE J2008 SGML Overview, Documation, Los Angeles, 1994
- SGML Object Database Technologies, Midwest SGML Forum,
Chicago, 1994
- Developing SGML Standards, Lessons from J2008, DoE
Seminar, Gatlinburg, 1994
- An SGML Model for Statistical Tables, SGML '94, Tyson's
Corner, VA, 1994
- The Business of Content, National Communications Forum,
Chicago, IL 1994
- Using SAE J2008 as the Basis for a Heavy Truck Data
Interchange Standard, Truck Maintenance Council,
Greensboro NC, 1995
- SGML and Legal Publishing Today, CALI Conference, Chicago
1995
- SGML Tools Overview, SGML 95, Boson, 1995
- An Introduction to SGML for Publishing Electronic
Products, Infobase Conference, San Diego 1996
- Automated Data Analysis, CALS Expo, Long Beach, 1996
- SGML Tools Overview, SGML 96, Boston 1996
- XML and Journal Publishing, SSP Conference, Washington
D.C. 1997
- Introducing XML, MidWest SGML Forum, Chicago 1997
- Document Engineering for Content Management, Documation
Canada 1997, Toronto
- SGML/XML Tools Overview, SGML 97, Washington D.C. 1997
- XML and the Automotive Industry, XML the Conference 98,
Seattle 1998
- XML and Print Media, XML the Conference 1998, Seattle
1998
- Data Modeling and XML; XML World '98, Ottawa
- GCA's Web Site; Using CDF and XML; XML '98, Chicago
- Understanding SAE J2008; XML Japan '98, Tokyo
- Why Topic Maps is the Next Big Thing, XML Asia Pacific, Sydney, 1999
- From Word Processing to XML, XML 99, Philadelphia PA, 1999
- The XML Roadmap; Understanding the XML Family of Standards, Seybold
Seminars San Francisco, 2000
- XML for Knowledge Management, KMEurope 2000, Brussels Belgium
- Overview of the XML Family of Standards, XML 2000, Washington D C 2000
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