[ANN] XML Prague 2010 Final Call for Participation (CFP)

[Daniela Florescu]

James, Michael,

thanks for your answers.

I think my question wasn't clear.

XML Prague has to take a clear decision about the status of the papers:
(a) are they part of an informal proceedings (in which case they can  
be submitted
somewhere else without infringing any copyright and affecting prior  
publication
status), or (b)  they are part of a copyrighted publication (in which  
case they cannot).

The Web site doesn't say either way, and that causes problems.
[[ I understand from James's answer that (a) is what is meant to be,  
but it's not clear...]]
[[ and unfortunately, being published "on the Web" can be interpreted  
either way...]]

For example, if a student submits a research proposal to XML Prague,  
and sends it
  in the same time to a copyrighted publication (like Sigmod), then  
Sigmod had serious
grounds for rejecting the submission because of the lack of clarity of  
the XML Prague
web site about this issue.

The students I am working with are worried about this.  Copyrights are  
serious business
in their world.

Thanks, best regards
Dana












On Dec 17, 2009, at 1:33 AM, Michael Kay wrote:

>>
>> here is link to 2007 proceedings
>>
>> http://www.xmlprague.cz/2007/images/xmlprague2007.pdf
>>
>> to give you an idea.
>>
>
> Having attended and spoken at several past events, but not being in  
> any way
> involved in the organisation, I would say: concentrate on saying  
> something
> that is going to be interesting to the audience, and not commercial;  
> don't
> worry too much about the academic criteria of originality or full  
> citations
> of previous related work. For example, if you were to talk on  
> scripting in
> XQuery, present the current state of play, not the delta changes  
> that have
> occurred in the three months since your last paper on the subject.  
> No-one
> except other researchers in your own field wants to hear that kind  
> of paper,
> and this is not primarily a conference where you are addressing other
> researchers in your own field.
>
> It is (or has been in the past) a single-stream conference, which  
> means your
> audience is less specialized. This also means that because everyone is
> present at the same talks, speakers get a lot of opportunity to  
> relate their
> work to other things that have been discussed in the conference,  
> which makes
> it a more interactive experience.
>
> Michael Kay
>
>