Marc de Graauw

Marc de Graauw graduated cum laude in Philosophy at Nijmegen University. Marc is an independent consultant with 14 years of experience and has a special interest in XML, semantics and e-business.

Articles by this author

A Smoother Change to Version 2.0

Marc de Graauw follows up David Orchard's recent piece about versioning XML vocabularies with a piece about the Capability Compatibility Design Pattern, including code for achieving forward and backward compatibility between XML vocabulary revisions.

Using Topic Maps to Extend Relational Databases

Relational databases are fast and efficient ways to store data, but they can often be inflexible when application requirements change. Augmenting them with the capabilities of Topic Maps can solve this problem, and enhance interoperability between databases.

Business Maps: Topic Maps Go B2B

Marc de Graauw shows how topic maps can be used to help solve interoperability problems between XML B2B vocabularies.