David R.R. Webber (born 1955) is an

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specializing in applications of

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ebXML Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language, commonly known as e-business XML, or ebXML (pronounced ee-bee-ex-em-el, 'bi,eks,em'el as it is typically referred to, is a family of XML based standards sponsored by OASIS and UN/CEFACT whose m ...

and EDI to standards-based information exchanges. He is a senior member of the ACM since 2007. David Webber is one of the originators of the

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 world's first airport gate scheduling system (King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, 1987), the SeeMail email client for MCIMail written in

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, the patented GoXML system for XMLGlobal, the ShroudIt obfuscation system for LNK Corp, and the VisualScript tool for Smartdraw Inc. More recently David has contributed to open XML standards development with

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as technical editor for BCM (Business Centric-Methodology), CAM (

Content Assembly Mechanism Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM)Standard defined in http://docs.oasis-open.org/cam/ is an XML-based standard for creating and managing information exchanges that are interoperable and deterministic descriptions of machine-processable information co ...

) and EML (

Election Markup Language Election Markup Language (EML) is an XML-based standard to support end to end management of election processes. History of EML The OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical Committee, which met for the first time in May 2001, was chartered "To d ...

) public standard specifications. Also the CAM work has included developing solutions for information exchange using the NIEM.gov approach

NIEM NIEM ( ) originated as an XML-based information exchange framework from the United States. NIEM also supports NIEM JSON exchanges. NIEM is currently developinthe NIEM Metamodel and Common Model Formatwhich can be expressed in any data serializati ...

. Contributions to the NIEM initiative include serving on the NIEM Technical Architecture Committee (NTAC) and with the IJIS Institute along with white papers and presentations.

Biography

Education

He earned a

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in Physics with Computing from the

University of Kent at Canterbury A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

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 in 1997 which Webber chaired the North 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

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

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15000 ebXML standard in 1999. Webber was a senior contributor to the international ebXML standards work for electronic business development. From this work stemmed the early work on the Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) including the GUIDE concepts - Global Uniform Interoperable Data Exchange. Active in continuing

standards development work within

particularly he chairs the

OASIS CAM Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM)Standard defined in http://docs.oasis-open.org/cam/ is an XML-based standard for creating and managing information exchanges that are interoperable and deterministic descriptions of machine-processable information con ...

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'' ( New Riders, , August 2001) with Alan Kotok . He holds two US software

patents A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...

on XML and EDI technologies that have been widely referenced by 37 other patent applications from leading implementing companies such as IBM,

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, GE,

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and

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. 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 and is a member of the

Technical Architecture Committee
NTAC
.

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

particularly for electronic business and information sharing. Recent examples include articles such as the Tech Journal and SOA Magazine. Further articles relating to rules technologies and XML can be found catalogued via th
Articles NetMiner
tool.

Projects

* CAM processor open source project - Webber is co-administrator along with Martin Roberts and Serge Leontiev - and the project provides tools for rapidly implementing interoperable information exchanges that support the

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

standard.

Honors and memberships

Webber is recognized as a Senior Member of the American Computer Machinery Association, a member of and committee chair for the

standards group, and co-founder of the XMLedi Group and North American chapter chair.

Bibliography

References

Sources

Interview in Developer.com, September 2003.

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110709004127/http://www.dcnicn.com/lamp/cals_97f/task11/html/Fbsr_udef/Repos-03.htm 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.

* ttp://www.japaninc.com/cpj/magazine/issues/1999/May99/XML.html 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.
Interview with Duane Nickull of Adobe; OASIS EML, CAM and LiveCycle development, 2009

Interview with Van Ristau of DLT; NIEM Technically Speaking, 2012

External links

Home page of David RR Webber

US Patent Representation and processing of EDI mapping templates

US Patent Template mapping system for data translation

Google Scholar Profile page

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Webber, David 1955 births Living people American computer scientists Election technology people XML technology people Alumni of the University of Kent