David Lowe

Associate professor David Lowe is the Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the Faculty of Engineering and is a co-director of the Centre for Object Technology, Applications, and Research (COTAR) at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has active research interests in the areas of Web development and technologies, hypermedia, and software engineering. In particular, he focuses on Web development processes, Web project specification and scoping, and information contextualization. David has published a great deal of material in the area, including the books Hypermedia and the Web: An Engineering Approach (Wiley, 1999) and XPath, XLink, XPointer, and XML: A Practical Guide to Web Hyperlinking and Transclusion (Addison-Wesley, 2002). He is on numerous Web conference committees and journal editorial boards, and he is the information management theme editor for the Journal of Digital Information. David has undertaken numerous consultancies related to software evaluation, Web development (especially project planning and evaluation), and Web technologies. He can be contacted at david.lowe@uts.edu.au.

Erik Wilde

Dr. Erik Wilde is currently working at the Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK), part of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. His interests in general are Web technologies, with a special focus on content-related standards such as XML/XLink/XPointer. When he is not reading new standards (or out in the woods running), Erik is giving lectures or courses, trying to make some progress with various book projects, working on a research project dealing with flexibly and effectively applying the topic map metaphor to the Web, or spending time as a consultant for companies seeking help or advice with Web-related projects. Erik can be contacted at net.dret@dret.net.