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After nearly two weeks of Bavarian bratwurst, beer and scalable pretzels (though most were of the lesser kind) you'd almost figure it'd take me at least until all the food was digested to make a blogpost about the SVG Open conference, right? Anyway, without further delay here are some random thoughts about the SVG Open 2008 conference, which was held this year in Nuremberg, Germany.

• Andrea Cassera presented a webapp for visualizing historic volcanic activity using svg, which was demo:ed in Opera 9.5. Currently not publicly available in the version that was shown at the conference.
  
• Shaun Roe gave a very interesting presentation of a tool called SEDUX which transforms XML data files from the Atlas experiment at CERN into an interactive SVG webapp by using XSLT and clientside scripting. See the paper, and example. Note that Opera 9.6 is required for proper display of the example.
  
• Yet another cool example of presenting data was the GPS track webapp by Olaf Schnabel.
  
• Zack Rusin talked about how KDE is using SVG and how he'd like to see SVG improved in the future.
  

The workshops were also quite interesting:

• Jon Cruz showed some of the new cool features in Inkscape 0.47. The workshop was especially helpful, with many useful tips and tricks.
  
• David Dailey gave a session on SVG Filters, and I don't think we had time to more than skim the surface before time was up.