[xquery-talk] XML/XQuery academic conferences ?
Daniela Florescu
dflorescu at mac.com
Wed Oct 12 11:03:44 PDT 2011
Dear all,
I am having a problem right now, and I don't know how to solve it.
We had over the summer several outstanding students, who did
really great research in processing XML and XQuery.
Here comes the question. Where can we publish the result of this
research !?
1. I know that there is XML Prague (and that would be my first choice
given the
skill of the audience).
But the problem with XML Prague is that it doesn't have (yet) the
academic
"cloud". Students don't get PhDs because they published there, and
professors don't get
tenure. (whether the world is well organized and why doesn't happen is
a completely
different topic -- but that's the reality).
In a CV for an application for a professor position for Stanford you
can put it at best in the category:
hobbies and other activities, despite the fact that the work is
technically equally challenging, if not more.
Balisage is another option, but has other problems.
2. Database conferences.
Unfortunately those guys don't understand much about XML. In fact they
are strongly convinced
that XML/XQuery is totally dead (just went to a Stanford professor
talk that said just that, and Stonebreaker
says something along the same lines on a regular basis in the NoSQL
conferences).
So they'll not understand the XQuery new work, let alone publish it.
3. Functional programming conferences (after all, XQuery is a
functional language..). Maybe it's a choice !?
I have no experience, but I am interested to hear if anybody else has.
4. WWW Conference. Based on my experience, it's such a wide conference
--- it's like a conference on water
-- where do you start !? As a result the audience, as well as the
program committee, is interested in widely different
things (and XML/XQuery might not be one of them, and then you are
out of luck)
5. NoSQL conferences. Unfortunately, there are two problems. First,
NoSQL is still not accepted in academic conferences
-- they have the same problem as XML itself. And second, they try to
stay away from XML like crazy ("angle brackets, not cool,
man, not cool. Not Web scale.").
So, I am interested in your feedback.
- Where is the "research center of gravity" of this community ?
- How can we stimulate young smart researchers to work on interesting
and hard problems if they cannot value
this work for their carrier ?
Any feedback appreciated, thanks
Dana
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