[DFDL-WG] Call For Abstract: NIST Data Science Symposium

[Steve Lawrence]

Thanks for the correction. Will add.

- Steve

On 10/04/2013 11:47 AM, Steve Hanson wrote:
> Steve - a correction below for the IBM implementation
>
> Regards
>
> Steve Hanson
> Architect, IBM Data Format Description Language (DFDL)
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> From:   Steve Lawrence <slawrence at tresys.com>
> To:     DFDL-WG <dfdl-wg at ogf.org>,
> Date:   04/10/2013 16:40
> Subject:        [DFDL-WG] Call For Abstract: NIST Data Science Symposium
> Sent by:        dfdl-wg-bounces at ogf.org
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>
>
> I'm just letting the working group know that we are submitting an
> abstract today to give a presentation on DFDL at the NIST Data Science
> Symposium. Below is what we plan to submit.
>
> - Steve
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Title: Stop Writing Custom Data Parsers -- Write DFDL Instead!
>
> This talk gives an introduction to the Data Format Description
> Language (DFDL), how it can be used to parse both textual and binary
> data in a standardized way, and how this leads to less time spent on
> custom data parser development and consequently, more time spent on
> data processing and analysis. The talk will then describe the
> current DFDL implementations, with focus on the open-source Daffodil
> project and its design. It will conclude with a brief walkthrough of
> real DFDL examples, including commercial and scientific formats, and
> a demonstration of the parsing capabilities of Daffodil.
>
> The DFDL specification, which has completed a second round of public
> comments as part of the Open Grid Forum (OGF), is a modeling
> language for describing general text and binary data using a subset
> of XML Schema augmented with data format annotations. DFDL allows
> data to be read from its native format and presented as an instance
> of an information set or an XML document. DFDL also allows the
> reverse, through conversion of an information set back to its native
> format. By using the information set, this cleanly integrates with
> common XML utilities (e.g. XProc, XSLT, XQuery) for data processing
> and analysis regardless of the format of the native data.
>
> Two implementations of DFDL exist, as is required by the OGF to
> become a standard. The first, created by IBM and already shipped in
> several IBM
> products (such as IBM Integration Bus v9), is written in both Java and C
> and includes graphical tools for modeling, running, and debugging DFDL
> schemas.
> The second implementation, Daffodil, is an open-source project written in
> Scala, with a design focused on speed and correctness. With the two
> implementations making great strides, and the DFDL specification
> nearing standardization, DFDL is becoming a promising tool that will
> ease data parsing, processing, and analysis.
>
>
> Biography:
>
> Stephen Lawrence has worked as a software engineer at Tresys
> Technology since 2007, while contributing to the open-source
> Daffodil project as a core maintainer for almost two years. He works
> alongside Michael Beckerle, the co-chair of the DFDL Working Group,
> to develop Daffodil and improve the DFDL specification. Outside of
> Daffodil, he focuses on computer security applications, including
> file inspection and sanitization, Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux),
> and cross domain solutions.
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