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| DAY 1 - MONDAY 22nd SEPTEMBER |
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Monday 22 September
Conference Registration 8:00-1:15
1:30-3:15
Tim Bray
Textuality
Tim Bray is a Canadian; he graduated from the University of Guelph in 1981, and after on-the-job training from DEC and GTE, became manager of the New Oxford English Dictionary Project in 1986. This led to his role in co-founding Open Text Corporation in 1989, where he served until after Open Text's IPO in 1996. Tim now has a consulting practice named Textuality; he is a Seybold Fellow, editor of the Gilbane Report, and co-editor of the World Wide Web Consortium's XML specification.
Bill Smith
Sun Microsystems
Bill has has worked in the SGML field for the past seven years, first at EBT, where he was Director of Research and Development, and currently at Sun Microsystems, where he manages the Online Information Technology Group. Most recently, he was elected to the Board of SGML Open and serves as its Chief Technical Officer. He is interested in structured information, ubiquitous access, and new products and services made possible by the Web and XML.
Monday 22 September
3:30-4:45
John Rooke
CCH Australia
A worthwhile implementation of SGML will never be easy. If it was easy, it would not be necessary. The primary focus of the implementation should be the data and its use, not the technology. The resources and time that a project needs will depend primarily on the complexity of the data and the uses to which it will be put. The rigor that the SGML standard imposes on markup is both part of the benefit and the bane of adopting the standard. To try to ease the path to SGML by easing its rigor would merely diminish its value. This presentation will examine the implementation of SGML from a management perspective.
John Rooke has directed the SGML project of CCH Australia Limited for seven years. The company has converted approximately 1gb of publication data to SGML. It produces more than 60 print publications and 50 electronic publications, most updated monthly, from SGML data.
Robin Tomlin
SGML Open
You've heard the theoretical benefits of standards, now hear the practical uses of those standards in the corporate workplace. This session will describe SGML, HTML and XML and how companies in North America are using or planning to use these standards to address business needs.
Robin has been involved in the publishing industry for the past 15 years with much of that time dedicated to the understanding, promotion and implementation of SGML. As the Executive Director of SGML Open, the international industry consortium for the promotion of SGML, she is responsible for the overall leadership of the consortium and management of the business operations.
Most recently, Robin was an Executive Manager of Marketing for the Intergraph Corporation, a sponsor member of SGML Open. Her responsibilities included product and industry marketing, strategic third party relationship management and business development for the corporate document management technology.
Prior to Intergraph, Robin was the Director of Marketing for Datalogics, Inc and established the SGML consulting services group for the company. Before joining Datalogics, Robin worked for the Navy Publishing and Printing Service where she managed publishing systems supporting the CALS initiative.
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| DAY 2 - TUESDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER |
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9:00-10:30 Concurrent Session A
Russel W Young
Folio Division of Open Market
Hard goods like books and CD-ROMs are not the only things being sold over the internet anymore. There is now a secure way to sell information over the internet, and this "Information Marketplace" is changing the face of commercial publishing. The internet is providing incredible access to vast amounts of information, the real challenge for users is knowing where to look for the information and then how to access it. The obvious challenge to publishers is how to tap the internet market potential while still finding a way to generate revenue, provide secure transactions and increase advantages over their competition. We will explore both the publisher and user issues involved in electronic information commerce and show examples of working information commerce sites. We will also discuss how information commerce will drive more and more published content to be created, stored and managed in SGML and XML.
Russ Young has been a developer at Folio for over 5 years, and is currently the Director of Development. He has helped develop Folio Views 3.x and was the lead Architect for Folio Builder 4.x. As the SGML evangelist at Folio, he is an active participant in the SGML community, and serves on the SGML Open technical committees, the GCA IT Division and the W3C XML working group. Russ graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1992 with a BS in Computer Science, and will graduate this December from BYU with his MS in CS.
Andrew Kowal
OmniMark Technologies Corp
Microdocument Architecture (MDA) is OmniMark Technologies' model to solving complex content management problems, and is quickly becoming the preferred approach by many organisations. It incorporates multiple technologies such as SGML, XML, relational databases and search engines to name a few.
This approach significantly simplifies the enterprises' ability to create, manage and deliver individualised information to any media such as WWW, CD-ROM or paper. Cost reduction and increased productivity will be demonstrated in a discussion of successful business implementations.
Andrew Kowal joined OmniMark in 1993 and has been involved in consulting, training and web technology development. He has recently moved into marketing as Product Manager responsible for identifying and bringing to market the key product features that customer requirements demand.
Tuesday 23 September
9:00-10:30 Concurrent Session B
Peter Sefton
Document Technologies - Standards Australia
This year the Australian Design Awards (ADA), administered by Standards Australia, is a web-based competition. This paper looks at the technical processes used to collect the entries, convert them to HTML via SGML, and link them into a useable and appealing web site. The ADA project is part of a broad corporate strategy to make the most of our shared knowledge. We aim to provide users with the tools they need to produce richly marked-up reusable documents and only richly marked-up reusable documents. In fact, the growing volume of textual content on the Standards Australia web site is all based on SGML, without the authors, editors and users realising it.
The following are discussed:
Peter Sefton has been processing language with computers for a decade. He has qualifications in Linguistics and Education and has been working with the web since it became fashionable. Peter heads the Document Technologies group at Standards Australia, supporting and developing the company's document production, management and delivery services.
Allan Valentine
Dale Bradshaw
The Army Doctrine Electronic Library continues to evolve as a medium for training and doctrine dissemination. The 1997 edition is a 10 CD-ROM pack. The main effort has been to consolidate the training library and provide wider integration of the SGML source data into multimedia training packages. This has been achieved by expanding the utility of the existing information base through smarter tools and different views.
Lieutenant Colonel Allen Valentine is an Infantry and Special Forces Officer who has had a variety of regimental, training and staff postings in the Australian Army. He has commanded a Special Air Service Squadron and the 1st Commando Regiment.
In 1991 Colonel Valentine was posted to Training Command as the Army's doctrine publications manager. In 1992 he initiated a study on the conversion of paper training manuals to electronic format and the production of a prototype compact disc. From mid 1994 he was the Project Director for the development and production of the Army Doctrine Electronic Library (ADEL) which incorporates the CD-ROM.
Major Dale Bradshaw is an artillery officer currently posted to the Army Doctrine Centre Headquarters Training Command as the Project Officer for the Electronic Library — a position he has held since the projects inception in 1992. Major Bradshaw is responsible for the day to day planning for, and production of, the Electronic Library.
Tuesday 23 September
10:45-12:30 Concurrent Session A
Raymond H Stachowiak
Xyvision Inc
Commercial Typesetting in the Double Byte environment
This will be a discussion of SGML typesetting and production case studies from South Korea and Japan. It will look at the issues involved with creating complex technical and reference documents using regional character sets.
A model for modern, on-demand information access via Web browsers, from an SGML and mixed data information repository. This presentation will discuss the utility of creating data in SGML and the capability to distribute in multiple media forms (paper, CD-ROM and Web). The focus will be on the business gains that can be achieved by making this data available via the Web and how SGML facilitates this process.
Other topics of discussion include:
Raymond Stachowiak is Xyvision's Business Manager for Australia. He has over 26 years in the computerised typesetting and data management industries. He is responsible for System sales activities in selected Technical Documentation markets in the United States, and is responsible for sales and sales support to customers and distributors in the Pacific Rim, Australia and Brazil. He has served in executive marketing positions with Intergraph, Datalogics and Western Publishing. Ray has been active in numerous Industry associations and has presented at GCA, SGML and Aerospace Industry conferences. He has a degree in Graphic Arts Management from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Allan Coombe
Tax Technical Research Facility — Australian Taxation Office
This presentation will focus on the ATO's experiences using SGML for tax legal research. Areas covered will include:
Allan Coombe has had over five years experience developing and implementing SGML products in the ATO. He is currently the Project Leader for the implementation of Structured Information Manager (SIM) in the ATO.
Tuesday 23 September
10:45-12:30 Concurrent Session B
Tibor Tscheke
STEP, Germany
A set of theses is presented, how (and why) XML will dramatically change almost every aspect of professional publishing over the coming years.
XML delivers what SGML promised and becomes the key to the area of electronic publishing and information access.
Tibor Tscheke has been working on SGML solutions with a view to system integration for the past ten years. As the managing director of STEP GmbH, he is currently interested in strategic opportunities which are open to companies and especially publishing houses using SGML based production environments. He has provided major input into the development of SigmaLink, STEPs' first vertical application which addresses the needs of publishing houses.
Beside his other duties, Tibor Tscheke provides strategic consulting to large publishing corporations. One of his current aims is to build a network of locally independent cooperations of SGML knowledgeable companies throughout Europe to bring high-quality local support to STEP customers.
Andrew Ogbourne
Butterworths Australia
SGML has been widely implemented as a powerful standard for expressing text-based information that will be reused for various purposes in various forms. Information reuse requires robust flexible storage and so a key requirement of many major SGML implementations is an SGML database.
Andrew Ogbourne looks at what the requirements for a really useful SGML database might be and why the products that are available have not been wildly successful so far. He discusses the various technical approaches that are available and how the technology might evolve in the next year or two, particularly under the influence of XML.
Andrew Ogbourne is the Manager of Publishing Technology at Butterworths, a major legal publisher based in Sydney. Over the past four years, he has developed systems based on SGML that allow Butterworths to make information available to their customers in a range of paper and electronic forms with far greater efficiency than was possible pre-SGML. Andrew has also worked as an independent database consultant.
TUESDAY 23 September
1:45-3:15 Concurrent Session A
Errol Chopping
School of Information Technology
Charles Sturt University — Mitchell
SGML is a non-proprietary standard but many of the software tools which support it are available only from commercially recognised developers. The SGML data entry software tool explained and demonstrated in this presentation (OnRails) has been developed in the platform-independent language, Java. The objective of this is to make it available, at zero cost, to all Internet users via their world wide web browsers.
This paper covers the use of SGML as the preferred document format for software configuration, the Object-Oriented Design of software in Java and underlying data structures which can be employed in SGML DTD management.
Charles Sturt University has a large collection of written and online materials which have been developed for distance education clients. This paper will discuss the benefits of SGML for this data and how the OnRails software tool might be used by CSU to streamline the creation and maintenance of its distance education documents.
Errol Chopping is a lecturer in computing in the School of Information Technology at Charles Sturt University (Bathurst Campus). He has extensive experience in the teaching of Object-Oriented Programming using C++ and Java and has been using SGML in his research and software development for some time.
Lani Hajagos
SGML Products - Adobe Systems
Two key measurements of the success of any SGML system are cost reduction and user satisfaction. This paper examines implementation details that can affect ease of training, ease of use and overall productivity; and suggests various techniques for enhancing both productivity and user satisfaction. It also looks at how to take advantage of emerging technologies to provide additional capabilities for leveraging and reusing information.
Lani Hajagos has been involved with computer-assisted typesetting, authoring and publishing for more than 25 years. During that time, she has been involved in the design, development and marketing of systems for computer typesetting, database publishing, newspaper editorials and classified ads, technical documentation and SGML authoring and publishing. She has been responsible for a number of innovations including new methods of kerning, WYSIWYG displays, generic markup methods and parameter-driven database publishing.
Ms Hajagos has been affiliated with a number of organisations, including Latham Process, CompuScan, Electronic Imaging Technology, Intergraph, Frame Technology, and currently, Adobe Systems. She also serves as a Director of the Graphic Communications Association.
Tuesday 23 September
1:45-3:15 Concurrent Session B
Featuring representatives from all participating vendors on their plans for XML support
Dr Athula Ginige
University of Technology, Sydney
At the beginning of 1995, UTS introduced a graduate coursework program in Information Systems Engineering. The aim of this program is to introduce students to state-of-the-art processors, methodologies and technologies associated with developing large, interactive, digital information systems. This program is developed and delivered in close consultation with the information industry.
The development of Hypermedia Information Systems is a capstone subject that brings most of the methodologies and technologies together through a group project. In this project students develop a large interactive hypermedia system using legacy data.
When doing this group project, students develop a deep understanding as to why it is necessary to capture the structure of the information rather than formatting the information. They also learn the benefits of using a standard markup language and how long term maintainability issues can be addressed. Students also realise why manual authoring techniques cannot be used for developing large digital information systems.
At present Athula is an Associate Professor and Head of the Computer Systems Engineering Group at University Technology (UTS) Sydney, Australia. He is also the Director of a Graduate Program in Information Systems Engineering at UTS and leads the Hypermedia and Visual Information Systems (HyVIS) research group. His work received international recognition in 1994 when he was invited to join the Editorial Board of IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers, USA) Multimedia Magazine.
Athula Ginige graduated with first class honours in BSc Mechanical Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is now a fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. He is also a member of MPEG (Motion Picture Expert Group) and MHEG (Multimedia and Hypermedia Expert Group) International Standards Committees.
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| DAY 3 - WEDNESDAY 24th SEPTEMBER |
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9:00-10:30 Concurrent Session A
Robin Masson
Uniscope
DSSSL is a standard of growing importance and application in the SGML world and it is likely to form the basis of the presentation for delivering XML. As a long time developer and contributor to DSSSL, Robin Masson will explain why you should be keeping a close eye on what is going on in the areas of tools, implementations and techniques using DSSSL.
Robin Masson is President of Uniscope Inc, a Tokyo-based supplier of SGML solutions, systems and software with a special emphasis on support for the requirements of Asian languages. Robin has been involved with SGML for about ten years and is a frequent evangelist for the cause of structured information at conferences in Japan and overseas.
Renata Iannella
Distributed Systems Technology Centre
The W3C has a new working group called "Resource Description Framework" - it brings together a number of other WGs in the W3C (in particular PICS and DSigs). The objective is to define a broader system to describe Web objects. The "description" will cater for ratings systems (PICS), digital signatures and resource discovery. One of the main syntaxes to be supported will be XML. It will be used to define metadata schemas, and metadata repositories.
Renata Iannella is a Senior Research Scientist at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) based in Brisbane, Australia. At DSTC, he is Leader of the Resource Discovery Unit which investigates technologies used in the discovery, access and retrieval of electronic resources on the Internet.
Renata is an active contributor to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group on Uniform Resources Identifiers and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working group on Resource Description Frameworks (RDF). Renata has authored many papers on Internet resource discovery architecture and issues — including Dublin Core, metadata registries and repositories, digital libraries and persistent naming.
Mike Petree
Isogen Corporation
A case study describing the use of DSSSL in a production environment.
Mike Petree is a senior consultant for Isogen, a leading US-based SGML integrator.
WEDNESDAY 24 September
9:00-10:30 Concurrent Session B
Wayne Taylor
Novell Corporate Publishing Services
In planning for Novell's latest product release, a changing corporate-wide localisation model required Novell's Corporate Publishing Services to develop new tools and processes for getting printed materials from SGML in multiple languages including Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
While Novell had successfully used FOSI technology from ArborText as well as the services of Uniscope to get printed materials in the past, an inflexible requirement was given that required us to use Windows 95. Consequently, we developed tools and a process that used DSSSL style sheets, the Jade DSSSL engine, and custom SGML processing to meet this challenge. This presentation provides an overview of how we approached and solved the problem.
Wayne Taylor has a BA in English from Brigham Young University and an MA in English from the University of Denver. For the last three years, he has been the Tools Development Manager for Novell's Corporate Publishing Services in Orem, Utah, where he has managed the creation and deployment of numerous SGML-based publishing solutions.
Ray Stachowiak
Xyvision
Commercial Typesetting in the Double Byte environment
This will be a discussion of SGML typesetting and production case studies from South Korea and Japan. It will look at the issues involved with creating complex technical and reference documents using regional character sets.
Raymond Stachowiak is Business Manager, Australia, at Xyvision. He has over 26 years in the computerised typesetting and data management industries. He is responsible for System sales activities in selected Technical Documentation markets in the United States, and is responsible for sales and sales support to customers and distributors in the Pacific Rim, Australia and Brazil. He has served in executive marketing positions with Intergraph, Datalogics and Western Publishing. Ray has been active in numerous industry associations and has presented at GCA, SGML and Aerospace Industry conferences. He has a degree in Graphic Arts Management from Rochester Institute of Technology.
WEDNESDAY 24 September
10:45-12:30 Concurrent Session A
Bruno Pisano
Allette Systems
SQL databases and the WWW are two of the largest application models using client/server technology today. A hybrid SGML/DBMS data modelling environment offers many advantages in the management and distribution of information. This seminar explores the avenues available for dynamic delivery of information via a SGML/DBMS repository and the benefits over more traditional methods. The issues it will address are:
Bruno is a Senior Developer at Allette Systems and is responsible for systems architecture, programming, consulting and teaches numerous SGML, XML and OmniMark related courses throughout the Asia Pacific region.
Bruno completed his Bachelor of Science at The University of Sydney in 1993, and has worked for several years with large scale SGML production systems. He previously worked for a number of large corporations before joining Allette Systems in 1995.
He has extensive knowledge and skills in a wide range of SGML applications. Bruno also has considerable experience with software design, programming, the WWW, client/server and RDBMS technologies and Micro Document Architectures.
Tim Arnold Moore
Multimedia Database Systems
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
A number of data models and indexing schemes have been proposed for managing a collection of SGML documents to allow retrieval on the structure and content of those documents.
This presentation provides an overview of the various approaches to supporting SGML in text retrieval and document management systems.
We will consider logical models for a collection of SGML documents including document, field and element-based schemes, implementation models including relational, object-oriented, hybrid and special-purpose models and indexing schemes including PAT, field, extent, element identifier and embedded path approaches to identifying elements within a collection. The queries that each of these schemes supports and the strengths and weaknesses of each approach are also discussed.
Timothy Arnold-Moore has Bachelor Degrees in Computer Science and Law from the University of Melbourne. He is nearing the completion of his PhD in "Information Systems for Legislation" at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
He has worked as a consultant and systems analyst with Multimedia Database Systems at RMIT developing SGML-based document management solutions including the legislation management system for the Tasmanian government.
Timothy's research interests include information retrieval, versioning document repositories, workflow management, defamation and intellectual property law.
Bill Donoghoe
ComputerVision
SGML has been used quite extensively as an interchange standard, especially within industry groups. The basic unit of exchange has always been a document. Now, with the widespread use of SGML Document Management Systems, it is worthwhile to look at the interchange issue to see if this interaction can be made more efficient.
To put this subject in a real life context, we will look at the interchange of information between aircraft manufacturers and airlines using the ATA 2100 DTD's. How the information is used by the receiver is an important aspect of this interchange.
A number of ways in which this interchange could be improved, whilst still conforming to open standards, will be examined.
Bill Donoghoe is an SGML consultant who has been involved in the design and implementation of SGML-based document management and publishing systems since 1990.
Bill led the Development Team which designed and implemented the Qantas Engineering Training School Information Management System. More recently, Bill has been heavily involved in specifying the functional requirements for deploying this system into other areas of Qantas and into other airlines.
Previously, Bill was the Technical Manager with Computer Law Services (CLS). Bill led CLS' R&D effort in constructing leading-edge SGML processing systems, including the first Legislative Consolidation System capable of producing "Law at a Date" versions of Statutory Law.
His professional interests include versioning of hierarchical objects, reusability of information objects and persistent hyperlinking.
WEDNESDAY 24 September
10:45-12:30 Concurrent Session B
Francois Paradis (CSIRO-DMIS)
Anne-Marie Vercoustre (INRIA)
Brendan Hills (CSIRO-DMIS)
The importance of reusing information is well understood in electronic publishing, and is one of the motivations for the development and use of SGML. Reuse is actually quite hard to achieve with SGML, as the elements are strongly typed and there can be incompatibilities between the DTD's. HTML, an SGML derivative, relaxes those constraints, but unfortunately it does not provide a significant level of structure for identifying and extracting information, since the tags are mostly used for presentation. XML, another SGML derivative, is a promising alternative which could bring the power of SGML to the Web while keeping the simplicity of HTML. These standards all have particularities which must be addressed in a global solution to the reuse of information.
We present our solution to the reuse of SGML information objects — a system that can dynamically combine information from various sources, including databases and SGML-like documents, to produce a virtual document, which allows an author to reuse information in a document-centric, descriptive way. We maintain support for the particularities of the data sources by having them stored in different formats and accessed in their own native query language, but also support the integration of these information objects by converting them into a common, tree-like data structure, and by providing a language to extract and transform information in those trees.
The system is currently being implemented. Our prototypal application, a document to generate activity reports, reuses both an SGML database and a collection of HTML pages (as well as an SQL database), and shows how flexible and powerful our tool for information reuse is.
Brendan Hills is a member of the Electronic Documents and Commerce Portfolio at CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences in Melbourne where he is working on the "Reuse of Information Objects" project (RIO). He has been working with SGML, HTML and document management systems since 1994, and presented some of CSIRO's work in this area at last year's SGML Asia Pacific Conference. His interests are in object-oriented databases, object oriented programming, and in bringing a cognitive science approach to designing document systems.
Francois Paradis is currently doing a post-doctorate at CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Melbourne, in the Text-Based Information Management group, where he is involved in the RIO project and in the TREC Information Retrieval experiments. His prior work with SGML includes the definition of an indexing model for structured documents and an application of this model to TEI, which was part of his PhD completed in 1996 at CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble.
Anne-Marie Vercoustre is a Research Director at INRIA, France, where she has been involved in Syntax based Programming Environments, Structured Documents, and Hypertext for more than 10 years. She participated in the design of Symposia, the W3C WYSIWYG editor connected to the Web, based on the SGML Grif Editor (Grif SA). She is currently involved in databases for structured and semi-structured data, with a focus on reusing SGML, XML and HTML documents through virtual documents. In 1996-1997, she spent 16 months at CSIRO-DMIS (Melbourne) as the leader of the Text-based Information Management Research Group and directed the project on Reuse of Information Objects (RIO).
Dr Ross Wilkinson
Division of Mathematics and Information
Science, CSIRO
There are a large number of languages that are available for document description. A common method of selection of languages is to select software products and use the associated software. This may well be appropriate, but it is important to factor in the costs associated with the description language as well as the software. What factors are important in selection of document description language? This presentation will discuss these factors and present an analysis of these languages. In particular, we will discuss XML and its strengths and weaknesses as a document description language.
Dr Ross Wilkinson obtained his PhD in Mathematics at Monash University in 1982. After teaching in the US for 2 years, he came back to do a graduate diploma in Computer Science in 1985. After a year at La Trobe University, he joined the Department of Computer Science at RMIT where he worked until 1997, when he joined the Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences at CSIRO. His principal research interests are in the area of document computing.
Some of his areas of research are document retrieval effectiveness, structured documents, hypertext, and the use of SGML in document retrieval. He has published over 40 research papers, has served on many program committees and was a program co-chair for SIGIR'96.
Documentation is the key to success in any systems activity, and SGML is no exception. If Document Type Definitions are well formatted and well documented, they will be easy to use and to maintain; if they are not, they will be difficult and expensive to modify. Further, if the reasons for various design decisions are not documented in the DTD, the application may unintentionally drift from its original purposes. Starting with a discussion of what should be documented in a DTD, Mr Graham identifies which of that information is intended primarily for the users of a DTD, which is for the maintainers of the DTD and which is intended of that information that should be internal to the DTD. Examples of how a DTD can be formatted and documented for maximum readability and maintainability are provided.
Tony Graham has been working with SGML for over six years. He has worked as an Editor and Document Analyst with Uniscope Inc in Tokyo, Japan for four years, as an SGML Consultant with ATLIS Consulting Group and is currently a Consultant with Mulberry Technologies Inc, an SGML Consultancy specialising in training and design. Tony has designed, built, and tested DTD's and SGML applications for clients in many industries and languages. In addition, his contributions have been incorporated into the DocBook, J2008, and Pinnacles SGML application standards.
WEDNESDAY 24 September
2:00-4:00 Concurrent Session A
Sebastian Holst
Inso Corporation
Excitement surrounding XML is running high. This presentation asks "what does XML support" really mean? Is XML the next generation HTML markup suitable for delivery only, or is it simply a manageable replacement for SGML?
Sebastian manages the direction and specification of the Dynatext family of product market leaders in SGML publishing. He also manages Dynabase, a dynamic web publishing solution, Dynatag, a machine assisted SGML/XML data rescue application and other solutions which benefit from structure rich content.
Previously, Sebastian was the President of Texcel Research Inc, the US subsidiary of Texcel International, a leading SGML centric document management system. Other positions held include a director of business development for an ORDBMS company and a development group manager for a 4GL and middleware vendor.
PG Bartlett
Arbortext
The World Wide Web is the most powerful vehicle ever created for global communication and information dissemination. As Internet/Intranet/Extranet capabilities continue to rapidly evolve, it is vital to identify the tools and technologies that will maximize the performance, functionality and ease-of-use of tomorrow's Web. Both SGML and HTML offer undeniable benefits for information creation and dissemination, but the short-comings of each are quite pronounced. XML may be the alternative we have been waiting for. This emerging scripting language tool has the potential to streamline and simplify our current use of the World Wide Web for information dissemination, and may drive the development of future Web functionalities.
This presentation discusses the current state and uses of SGML technology, evaluates the pros and cons of HTML, and looks forward to examining the potential impact and benefits (as well as potential pitfalls) of an XML solution. Discussion focuses on the following points:
To summarise, the presentation establishes and supports the opinion that the World Wide Web is at a crossroads - a decisive point at which its future directions and evolutionary pace are being determined. Future versions of HTML will continue to support incremental steps in Web evolution, while XML offers the possibility of rapid evolution in broad leaps.
PG Bartlett is the Vice President of Marketing for ArborText, the leading vendor of SGML-based document management tools and enterprise publishing software. Bartlett is a regular presenter at CALS and other SGML industry events, and has been invited to present and chair sessions at both Seybold Seminars and Documation conferences. Since joining ArborText, Bartlett has co-authored two electronic presentations distributed by SGML Open and authored several white papers.
Rick Jelliffe
SGML Consultant
The SGML standard has been highly successful for the large publishing and archiving problems it was developed for. Recently, XML extends SGML to fit in an emerging medium — the WWW.
This presentation looks at:
Rick Jelliffe has just completed a book, "The SGML Cookbook", due for publication this year. He was Senior SGML Consultant at Allette Systems from 1993, and the Australian delegate to the ISO working group maintaining SGML, ISO JTC1/SC18/WG8. Rick has been involved in SGML publishing since 1989. He has been involved in the development of XML, and has special interests in typesetting and Asian language publishing.
WEDNESDAY 24 September
2:00-4:00 Concurrent Session B
Lynne Price — Moderator
Text Structure Consulting Inc
Peter Pacers — Panel Member
Allette Systems
Simon Lymbery — Panel Member
Information Management - Qantas Airways
The term "industry-standard DTD" refers to a DTD, designed by participants from several unrelated companies or other organisations, for use with documents on similar topics produced by these organisations. Despite the word "standard," industry-standard DTDs are not necessarily produced by recognised standards authorities. Often, they are intended for interchanging documents rather than for creating new ones.
This talk explores issues such as the suitability of industry-standard DTDs for authoring as opposed to interchange and how much document analysis does the decision to use an industry-standard DTD save an organisation about to implement an SGML solution.
Lynne Price has been involved in SGML since 1985. She has been active in US and international SGML standards work and is the editor of the standard on Conformance Testing for SGML Systems (ISO/IEC 13673). At Frame (later Adobe), Lynne was part of the original development team working on the project that resulted in FrameMaker+SGML. She left Adobe in early 1996 to form her own SGML consulting company, Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
Lynne's interest in structured documents extends back to graduate school. She completed a PhD in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978. Her dissertation was titled, "Representing Text Structure for Automatic Processing."
Peter Pacers is a long time SGML developer with significant experience in industry standard DTD design, primarily as the lead developer on the Australian Department of Defence CALS Project but also as a facilitator on numerous legal DTD design efforts.
Simon Lymbery started in 1990, he spent three years as an engineer supporting mechanical systems on the aircraft fleet. In 1993 he was appointed as the Business Manager responsible for the business specification of an integrated Engineering and Maintenance (E&M) support system, and as the E&M representative on the Corporate Information Management Working Group. Since then he has been actively involved within Qantas assisting in identifying, specifying, developing, and implementing information management-related business solutions, as well as defining technical and information standards. At an industry level, he is a Qantas representative on several standards working groups through the Air Transport Association. More broadly, he has worked with local groups dealing with CALS based standards, the GCA, and with AUSDEC (STEP sandards), including presentations at related conferences and seminars.
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| TUTORIALS - THURSDAY 25th SEPTEMBER |
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THURSDAY 25 September
9:00-5:00 Concurrent Tutorials
Instructor: Tim Bray
Co-editor of XML
Principal, Textuality
XML, the Extensible Markup Language, is a true subset of SGML designed for use on the Internet. It supports most of the structural and validation features of SGML. However, as the name emphasises, the key feature inherited from SGML that will be of primary interest to the HTML user, is the ability of the individual to extend the language to include new elements and attributes.
This tutorial reviews the complete XML specification from top to bottom. Attendees leave with a comprehensive understanding of the XML specification at a level sufficient enough to construct a parser, as well as the motivation for all aspects of the design.
Instructor: Mike Petree
Isogen Corporation
This one day DSSSL overview is designed for those who have been hearing about DSSSL and would like to know more about what it is and how it relates to SGML and Hytime. A general conceptual model of the transformation process and the formatting process will be demonstrated and practical examples will be be used for clarification. The overview will also include a demonstration of Jade, James Clarks DSSSL engine.
Tony Graham
Consultant, Mulberry Technologies Inc
The components of the SGML Declaration are introduced and examples demonstrate the use and effect of each. In numerous exercises, attendees modify, examine, and parse sample Declarations, DTDs and Instances so they can see the effect of each component of the Declaration. Attendees should bring a computer running Windows 3.x, Windows 95, or Windows NT. This course provides a solid technical grounding in the makeup and use of the SGML Declaration, and the comprehensive notes and examples provided in the course material constitute a valuable reference.
Participants should be familiar with reading DTDs and SGML markup before taking the tutorial.
Participants should be equipped with a portable computer running Windows 3.x, Windows 95 or Windows NT, and the latest version of James Clark's nsgmls parser will be provided at the start of the class.
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