Robert Worden is a consultant in information architecture and e-commerce with
Charteris Ltd in London. Previously at Logica he developed an early relational DBMS,
built expert systems and was manager of Logica's advanced technology development centre
at Cambridge. He is the architect of Charteris' Information Mapping technique and
tool.
The author analyzes the potential dangers of competing "standard" XML e-business
vocabularies, and proposes a way forward that allows companies to tread a middle ground.