 Introducing: Anthony B. Coates
Nationality: Australian
Date of Birth: 26th August 1964
Residence: London, UK (permanent resident)
Languages spoken: English, some French and German
Anthony B. Coates (Tony) is an Associate Director of Document Engineering Services, an international consortium of experts supporting universal business interoperability through the use of open standards.
Tony is an expert in the design and use of XML, especially for banking and finance, and contributes to the industry by working to advance the standardisation of methodologies for working with XML and electronic messages or documents. Tony is the creator and editor of the OASIS genericode specification for code lists. He is an active participant in the development of the ISO 20022 methodology for model-based design of XML Schemas for banking and finance, and is the Principal UK Expert to the ISO working group (TC68/WG4). He is also an active participant in the development of UN/CEFACT's Core Components
Technical Specification (CCTS) and the UN/CEFACT Context Methodology
(UCM).
Since moving to London in 2000, Tony has worked on projects for a number of major financial institutions there, as well as for government. Much of this work has been in architecture and design of corporate data models and message sets.
Professional Affiliations and
Involvement:
2006-present: Editor for “genericode”, the XML code list format produced by the OASIS Code List Representation Technical Committee (as used by FpML, UBL, and other groups).
2005-present: Principal UK representative to ISO TC68/WG4 for improvement/extension of ISO 20022 (“UNIFI” - repository and process for creating UML models of banking/finance processes and generating XML Schemas from those models).
2005-present: UK representative to UN/CEFACT Technologies and Methodologies Group (TMG), which developers a range of specifications for data modelling (in UML) and XML Schema generation which are broadly similar to those of ISO 20022, but are focussed on the needs of general commerce rather than banking/finance.
2004-2007: Presenter at CSW XML Summer School in Oxford, UK
2004–2005: UK representative to ISO TC68/SC4/WG11 for ISO 19312 (Securities Data Model).
2001–2007: Co-editor, MDDL (Market Data Definition Language), http://www.mddl.org/
2000–1, 2003-present: FpML Architecture Working Group (OTC Financial Derivatives Transactions), http://www.fpml.org/
2000–1, 2003-present: FpML Architecture Working Group (OTC Financial Derivatives Transactions), http://www.fpml.org/
2001: Author, RFC 3085, "URN Namespace for NewsML Resources", http://rfc.net/rfc3085.html
2000–2001:
National Secretary, Australian Java Users Group, http://www.ajug.org.au/
Publications:
Technical Books:
Advanced XML Applications from the Experts at The XML Guild
(chapter on XMLAPIs) - Published December 2006 by Thomson; Co-authored with the members of the XML Guild
Articles:
"Managing Enumerations in W3C XML Schemas" - published at XML.com
"Named Character Elements for XML" - Published at
XML.com; Co-author with Zarella Rendon
Running Multiple XSLT Engines with Ant - published at XML.com
Academic Qualifications:
Bachelor of Science with 1st Class Honours (Physics), from the University of Queensland (1985).
Presentations Given:
"Semantic data models and business context modelling", XML 2007
"Why are simple code lists so complex?", New York XML Special Interest Group, May 2007
"Agile XML Development" (panel session), XML 2006
"Creating and Maintaining Large Families of Related Schemas", XML 2005
"Reaching Consensus on Code Lists", OASIS Symposium 2005
"Insiders Road Map to Success" (presented with Mike Bennett), XML for Market Data 2005
"Why are simple code lists so complex?", XML 2004 (this is the original presentation about genericode)
"Using Standards to Fast Track Enterprise Messaging for Finance", XML 2003
"The Role of XML in Finance", XML 2001
"How and Where XML is Changing the Markets", XML Europe 2001
"How XML is Changing Business & Why You Need to Know", BITE 2000
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