David Webber (computer scientist)

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David Webber
Born	1955 (1955) Leicestershire, England
Alma mater	University of Kent at Canterbury
Occupation	Consultant
Known for	XML/edi, XML OASIS CAM, Schema, ebXML Machine Intelligence, Prolog
Awards	ACM Senior Member Award
Scientific career
Fields	Information Semantics
Institutions	Government

David R.R. Webber (born 1955, England) is an Information technologist specializing in applications of XML, ebXML and EDI to standards based information exchanges.[1]. He is a senior member of the ACM since 2007. David Webber is one of the originators of the ebXML initiative for global electronic business via the internet. He is holder of two U.S. Patents (5909570, 6418400) for electronic information exchange transformation and those patents are now cited widely by 37 other patents. David Webber has implemented several unique groundbreaking computer solutions in his career including the worlds first airport gate scheduling system (King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, 1987), the SeeMail email client for MCIMail written in Prolog, the patented GoXML system for XMLGlobal, the ShroudIt obfuscation system for LNK Corp, and the VisualScript tool for Smartdraw Inc.

Biography

Education

He earned a Bachelor's degree in Physics with Computing from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1976.

EDI and ebXML

Webber participated in the development X12 Future Vision work in 1995 EDI, a focused group of 30+ people including with Edward A. Guilbert, the creator of the original technology. This led ultimately to the co-founding of the XML/edi Group[2] in 1997 which Webber chaired the N.American Chapter and then the group develop the principles of XML/edi document. Webber published "Introducing XML/EDI frameworks" in Electronic Markets Journal 1998; 8(1):38-41 which has been widely cited. From this early work the ebXML Initiative was jointly formed by UN/CEFACT and OASIS and co-sponsored by Sun, IBM, Oracle and others which led to the development of the ISO 15000 ebXML standard in 1999. Webber was a senior contributor to the international ebXML standards work for electronic business development. Active in continuing XML standards development work within OASIS particularly he chairs the OASIS CAM technical committee, and co-edited the Business-Centric Methodology (BCM) specification. He contributes to several other areas of OASIS work including the Election Voter Services standard EML and the ebCORE work related to ebXML. Webber co-authored the book ebXML: The New Global Standard for Doing Business on the Internet[3] (New Riders, ISBN 0735711178, August 2001) with Alan Kotok . He holds two US software patents on XML and EDI technologies that have been widely referenced by 37 other patent applications from leading implementing companies such as IBM, Oracle Corporation, AT&T, GE, SAP, NEC and Dell. His current focus includes the field of voting systems and XML, contributing to the development of secure open source software solutions and open public standards (OASIS Election Markup Language). Webber was recognized as a Senior Member of the ACM in 2007 for his work[4] and is a board member of the CUNY XML Center[5].

Further Publications

David Webber is editor of the ebXML online news publication ebXML Forum and magazine. He is also widely published in technical publications of the computer industry on topics relating to the use of XML particularly for electronic business and information sharing. Recent examples include articles such as the Tech Journal[6] and SOA Magazine.[7].

Projects

• CAM processor open source project - Webber is co-administrator along with Martin Roberts - [8] and the project provides tools for rapidly implementing interoperable information exchanges that support the NIEM and associated IEPD (Information Exchange Package Documentation) approach.
• Open voting solutions open source project was implemented by Webber as a reference implementation using the OASIS EML XML standard - [9].

Activities and Sites

Blog site [10] Web site [11] ebXML News Forum [12] Trusted Logic Voting systems [13] Open voting solutions [14] Environmental concerns [15]

Research Interests

David Webber has research interests in information semantics, content markup including registry and dictionary representations and automated information processing and algorithms. Also the application of machine intelligence to computer problem solving and game strategy implementation. Webber is an accomplished chess player - including winning the 2002 internet tournament - and collection of selected games and puzzles.

Honors and Memberships

David Webber is recognized as a Senior Member of the American Computer Machinery Association ACM, a member of and committee chair for the OASIS standards group, and co-founder of the XMLedi Group and North American chapter chair [16].

Bibliography

• Kotok, Alan (August, 2001). ebXML: The New Global Standard for Doing Business on the Internet (first edition ed.). New Riders. ISBN 0735711178. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

See also

• ebXML, Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM)

References

• Interview in Developer.com, September, 2003.
• Podcast on WebservicesSummit.com form XML 2004 Conference featuring ebXML Registry demonstration.
• Electronic Data Interchange Repositories and XML/edi, 1999.
• Less Is More In E-Business: The XML/edi Group by David Webber, Alan Kotok, November 10, 1999.
• Impact Of XML On Data Interchange: An XML/EDI Model, Terrence J. Moran, St. Bonaventure University, 2007. Review of Business Information Systems – Third Quarter 2007 Volume 11, Number 3.
• An empirical study of XML/EDI by EJL Lu - 2001.
• Understanding ebXML, UDDI and XML/EDI, White Paper, David Webber, 2001.
• Introducing XML/edi, Bruce Peat & David Webber, The XML/edi Group, August 1997.
• XML/edi Guidelines, The XML/edi Group, 1997.
• Globalizing the web with XML - by Steven Myers and Ryan Shaw, Computing Japan, 1999.
• eBusiness Watch, Special Report, September 2005. e-Business Interoperability and Standards, European Commission Enterprise & Industry Directorate General.
• Understanding ebXML, UDDI, XML/EDI, by David Webber and Anthony Dutton, October, 2000.
• Exploiting ebXML registry semantic constructs for handling archetype metadata in healthcare informatics Publ by International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies & ACM, Professor Asuman Dogac, SRDC, Turkey, 2006.

External links

• Home page of David RR Webber
• Official site of OASIS Content Assembly Mechanism standard.
• Official site of OASIS Business-Centric Methodology standard.
• Resource site on Trusted Logic Voting systems
• US Patent Representation and processing of EDI mapping templates
• patents referencing 6418400
• US Patent Template mapping system for data translation
• patents referencing 5909570
• Initative developing simpler eBusiness systems and standards based implementations
• Website for ebXML book
• Illumonus - collaboration on simple and open international trade systems