ProXML - the company

About ProXML

ProXML bvba is the consulting company of Paul Hermans.

Paul is a specialist in the field of data oriented Web standards:

XML; starting from all possible kinds of schema languages over XSLT/XQuery to the design and implementation of XML pipeline architectures.
He is XML architect of the "Dublin Core" based web metadata infrastructure of the Dutch government.
OWL/RDF(S), the semantic web stack. In this context he is the lead architect of the very ambitious cultural heritage project of the Province of Limburg using state of the art semantic web technologies.

Paul started his IT career as the head of the electronic publishing department of CED Samsom, part of the Wolters Kluwer group.
He was the founder of Pro Text bvba, a well-known SGML/XML consultancy company, being acquired by Amplexor in 2003.
Paul was member of the management team of Amplexor NV, an Enterprise Content Management solution provider.

He has been for years chairman of the Belgian-Luxembourgian SGML/XML User's Group and he is a fellow of the Hogenheuvelcollege, research group Informatics (LIRIS).

He speaks frequently on 'XML' and related subjects for SAI and ITworks.