Publications and Presentations by Ken Sall (1998-2000)

Arranged in reverse chronological order within categories.

Non-NASA Related Publications

• XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide; by Kenneth B. Sall; to be published by Addison Wesley, March 2002
• Web Developers Virtual Library - series of articles and resources, including:
• • What Happened at XML 2000?; December, 2000
  • What Happened At XML 99?; December, 1999
  • What Happened At XML World 99?; October, 1999
  • Doing It With SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), Part 1; September, 1999
  • Doing It With XML, Part 1; April, 1999
  • Doing It With XML, Part 2; July, 1999
  • What Happened at WWW8?; May, 1999
  • XML and Java: The Perfect Pair; November, 1998
  • XML and Java: The Perfect Pair; Part 2: Java APIs for XML ; December, 1998
  • XML and Java: The Perfect Pair; Part 3: Editors and Parsers; January, 1999
  • XML Software Guide; July, 1998
  • Next Generation HTML: the Big Picture; June, 1998
  • XML: Structuring Data for the Web: An Introduction ; May, 1998

Unfortunately, most of the links below no longer work because the pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov and cen.com servers are no longer functioning.

As Contributor to NASA Related Publications

• SpaceOps 2000, Toulouse, France; June 19-23, 2000
  Sponsored by The International Symposium on Space Mission Operations and Ground Data Systems (SpaceOps)
  Paper title: Using XML and Java for Astronomical Instrument Control
  Authors: Troy Ames, Lisa Koons, Ken Sall, Craig Warsaw
  Conference: http://www.carte-blanche.fr/spaceops2000/index.htm [broken URL]
  Paper - GSFC archive Word document: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/irc/presentations/SpaceOps2000.doc

• Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2000, Munich, Germany; March 27-31, 2000
  Sponsored by SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
  Conference: Advanced Telescope and Instrumentation Control Software (4009)
  Paper title: Using XML and Java for telescope and instrumentation control
  Authors: Troy Ames, Lisa Koons, Ken Sall, Craig Warsaw
  Conference: http://www.spie.org/info/as/
  Paper - GSFC archive Word document: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/irc/presentations/SPIE-4009-01.doc
  Presentation - GSFC archive PowerPoint document: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/irc/presentations/SPIE.ppt

• 195th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS); Atlanta, Georgia; January 11-15, 2000
  Poster presentation entitled: Using XML and Java for Astronomical Instrument Control
  Authors: Troy Ames, Rhodri Evans, Lisa Koons, Ken Sall, Craig Warsaw
  Conference: http://www.aas.org/meetings/aas195/program/
  Our poster: http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v31n5/aas195/487.htm
  GSFC archive PowerPoint document: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/irc/presentations/AAS_195_IRC_Poster.ppt

• Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IX (ADASS'99), Waikoloa, Hawaii; October 3-6, 1999
  Presentation title: Using XML and Java for Astronomical Instrument Control
  Authors: Troy Ames, Lisa Koons, Ken Sall, Craig Warsaw
  Conference: http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/ADASS/
  GSFC archive PowerPoint97 document: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/irc/presentations/ADASS99-IRC-Presentation.ppt

• XML World, Ottawa, Canada; September 13-16, 1999
  Conference: http://www.interdoc.ca/conference/xml/conference.htm
  Authors: Troy Ames, Lisa Koons, Ken Sall, Craig Warsaw
  GSFC archive PowerPoint97 document: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/irc/presentations/XMLWorld99_AIML.ppt

• Eighth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW8), Web Engineering Workshop; Toronto, Canada; May 11, 1999
  Presentation title: Using XML and Java for Astronomical Instrument Control
  Authors: Troy Ames, Ken Sall
  Conference: http://www8.org/
  Web Engineering workshop: http://budhi.uow.edu.au/web-engineering99/web_engineering.html
  Our presentation: http://budhi.uow.edu.au/web-engineering99/accepted_papers/sall.html
  GSFC archive PowerPoint97 document: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/irc/presentations/WWW8-UsingXMLandJava-AIML.ppt
  GSFC archive HTML document: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/irc/presentations/WWW8-UsingXMLAndJava.html

• 193rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS); Austin, Texas; January 6, 1999
  Poster presentation entitled: Using XML for Instrument Description, Communication and Control of the SOFIA / HAWC Instrument
  Authors: Dr. Richard Shafer, Troy Ames, Ken Sall, Craig Warsaw
  Conference: http://www.aas.org/meetings/aas193/program/index.html
  Our poster: http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v30n4/aas193/920.htm
  GSFC archive PowerPoint97 poster: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/irc/presentations/AAS-01061999_poster4.ppt
  GSFC archive PowerPoint97 slides: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/irc/presentations/AAS-01061999-AIML.ppt

• Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VIII (ADASS'98); Urbana, Illinois; November 1-4, 1998
  Presentation title: NASA's Instrument Control Markup Language (ICML)
  Authors: Troy Ames, Ken Sall, Craig Warsaw
  Conference: http://monet.astro.uiuc.edu/adass98/
  Our presentation: http://monet.astro.uiuc.edu/adass98/talks/node24.html
  GSFC archive Word97 document: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/irc/presentations/ADASS98.doc
  GSFC archive LaTex document [longer]: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/irc/presentations/ICML-ADASS98.tex
  [Get IBM techexplorer Hypermedia Browser (plug-in).]

• XML World; Ottawa, Canada; September 16, 1998
  Presentation title: NASA's Instrument Control Markup Language (ICML)
  Authors: Troy Ames, Ken Sall, Craig Warsaw
  (no URL; site re-done for 1999 conference)
  GSFC archive PowerPoint97 document: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/irc/presentations/XMLWorld98-NASAICML.ppt

Next Generation HTML

Series of XML presentations for NASA by Ken Sall

• SVG Implementations: An Overview for Webmasters    [02/13/01]
• XML Family of Specs: Overview for Webmasters    [12/19/00]
• XML: An Overview [Science Data Processing Workshop]    [11/07/00]
• XML Schema vs. DTDs    [10/26/00]
• SVG: Not Just Another Pretty Graphics Standard    [11/18/99]
• XML for Structured Data: What It Is and Why Should You Care?    [11/09/99]
• XML Family of Specifications and Their Applicability to Astronomy [Space Telescope Science Institute]    [07/21/99]
• WWW8 Trip Report    [06/17/99]
• Displaying XML using XSL and CSS    [05/27/99]
• XML and Java    [02/17/99]
• XML Introduction    [12/3/98]

Citations

• XML: A Primer, 2nd Edition; by Simon St. Laurent; September, 1999
  Book references our AIML language when talking about data driven applications (chapter 9).

• Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical; by Simon St. Laurent and Robert J. Biggar; published July, 1999
  Book contains several pages describing our use of XML and Java, AIML, and IML in a chapter devoted to XML and astronomy (chapter 17).

• XML and the Second-Generation Web article by Jon Bosak and Tim Bray in Scientific American; May 1999
  Mentions AIML in a New Languages for Science sidebar.
  Sidebar: http://www.sciam.com/1999/0599issue/0599bosakbox4.html
  Article also links to our NASA pioneer AIML web site: http://www.sciam.com/1999/0599issue/0599bosakbox5.html
  Article home: http://www.sciam.com/1999/0599issue/0599bosak.html