Hugh Chatfield

I'm the owner and principal consultant of CyberSpace Industries 2000 Inc., a consulting and training firm specializing in SGML/XML and documentary/multimedia production. I hold an honors degrees in physics and an honours post graduate certificate in documentary production. My company is a founding member of the goUBL.com business ecosystem, to promote the use of the OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) in North America.

Articles by Hugh Chatfield

An open letter to Canada’s next Prime Minister

During election campaigns we often hear about infrastructure investment and job creation plans from government. But a focus on electronic infrastructure and creating better economic efficiencies through an e-invoicing initiative also deserves attention.

We need to make computers disappear

I have in my mind an image from Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis. In the film, the villain is a ‘city’ that appears to have...

XML provides scaffolding for linking document trails

In section 7 of Vannevar Bush's 1945 Atlantic Monthly article "As We May Think" (see ...

The beginnings of a new world

Six years ago, after some quarter century working in information system development, I found myself the latest...

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