SGML: Final program for HyTime Conference
Subject: Final program for HyTime Conference [long]
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 16:49:36 -0400
From: "Steven R. Newcomb" <srn@techno.com>
Newsgroup: comp.text.sgml
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Third GCA International HyTime Conference
August 20 - 21, 1996
Westin Hotel
Seattle, Washington, USA
PROGRAM
Tuesday, August 20 start time duration
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(Registration) 8:00 am n/a
Welcome 9:00 am 0:15
Steven R. Newcomb, Conference Chair
Conference Keynote: 9:15 am 1:00
"Being There: The Power of the New Media"
Len Bullard, Computer Systems Analyst
Lockheed-Martin, Huntsville, Alabama
Abstract: The birthing time is over; childhood begins. Useful,
working tools have emerged and with them have emerged the long-awaited
new media. Now it is time to discover and test their power. We can
integrate media at an unprecedented scale. We can create interactive
worlds with nothing more than a PC and an ISP connection. We can
distribute our personal visions via networks so large that few parts
of our planet remain isolated from them. We can even integrate our
worlds and visions with the worlds and visions of others.
What can SGML/HyTime do for us now? Which applications will benefit
from SGML/HyTime? How can we make tools that provide for both complex
applications and the remaining 95% of our tasks? Can our standards
adapt to the furious pace at which tools are emerging? What is the
role of our community? What are our individual roles? What will be
the impact on the family of man?
The new media have arrived. The creative possibilities challenge us
to explore them. It is finally time to start having some fun; let the
good times roll!
(This presentation will include a demonstration of Len's recent VRML
work, including the Talosian spaceport and the Kate Bush
extravaganza.)
About the Keynote Speaker: Len Bullard has been extraordinarily
influential in the design of HyTime, in the MID project, and in the
long range planning of the Defense Department and its suppliers with
respect to their handling of complex technical and business
information. In 1989, he was initially responsible for alerting the
DoD to the defense implications of what everyone else thought was
merely a language for music representation. Soon thereafter he wrote
his seminal and influential monograph, "Beyond the Book Metaphor," in
which, among other things, he proposed that the modeling power of
HyTime could be used to detect sources of noise -- reasons for
chaotic, irrational, and superstitious behavior -- in organizational
operations. Later, this same book was regarded as having sufficient
strategic importance that it was listed by the U.S. government as
non-exportable information. (Mr. Bullard is working on a revised
version for publication now.) An accomplished singer,
instrumentalist, and songwriter, Mr. Bullard operates a recording
studio and record company, Blind 'Dillo Records. He is the creator of
a remarkable and ground-breaking VRML document about the British
musician Kate Bush, which is available to the public via the internet.
Mr. Bullard is speaking primarily in his role as a VRML
author/artist/composer, but also in his capacity as one of the most
respected prophets of the SGML industry.
"I've Got an SGML Database - 10:15 am 0:30
Why Do I Need Hytime?"
Carla Corkern, President
ISOGEN International Corp dba Highland Consulting
Dallas, Texas
Abstract: In 1994, we began work on a customer project to create a
system for component-based information development. The customer's
vision (and metaphor) was to create blocks of information and have
documents built from these blocks. The goal of this information
development system was to create pieces of information that were so
generic and small that they could be assembled into custom documents
by a database query system. However, the interlinking and mutual
dependencies of these small fragments of data were unmanageable in
current SGML database technology. This talk will focus on the
difference between SGML ENTITY managers - SGML BLOB managers and SGML
ELEMENT managers (the three kinds of current SGML Repository products)
and provide a wish list of how these product designs can evolve to
support the goals and promise of HyTime.
(break) 10:45 am 0:15
"It's All About Architectures" 11:00 am 0:45
Steven R. Newcomb, President
TechnoTeacher, Inc.
Rochester, New York
Abstract: SGML has always been `object oriented' in some senses. Now
ISO 10744 gives SGML extended facilities that support formal
inheritance and subclassing mechanisms (described in the immediately
following presentation by Charles Goldfarb). These facilities will
change the way we use and think about SGML in surprising and even
radical ways. They make information represented in SGML better able
to describe itself, and even more flexible, reusable, and
interchangeable. Here are some problems, questions, and requirements
that the presenter thinks SGML architectures will solve, answer, and
fulfill.
Technical Keynote, Part I: 11:45 am 0:45
State of the HyTime Standard:
"Architectural Form Definition Requirements
in the ISO 10744 Technical Corrigendum"
Charles Goldfarb, Project Editor, ISO 8879 & 10744
Information Management Consulting
Saratoga, California
Abstract: The HyTime architecture pioneered the use of `architectural
forms'. HyTime's architectural form mechanism allows, e.g., hyperlink
elements to be recognized as hyperlink elements, even when their
element type names might lead one to think otherwise. The HyTime
Technical Corrigendum, among other `SGML Extended Facilities',
provides the ability to create and recognize formal architectures
other than (or in addition to) the HyTime architecture.
(lunch) 12:30 pm 1:00
Technical Keynote, Part II: 1:30 pm 0:45
State of the HyTime Standard:
"The Rest of the Technical Corrigendum"
Charles Goldfarb, Project Editor, ISO 8879 & 10744
Information Management Consulting
Saratoga, California
Abstract: The architectural form definition requirements aspect of the
Technical Corrigendum of ISO 10744 is complemented by a variety of
other facilities that, in effect, extend the power of SGML. This talk
includes an overview of these facilities, which include property sets
and groves (which will be presented in more detail later in the
conference by Eliot Kimber), and formal system identifiers and storage
managers. The division of the HyTime architecture into separate
architectures will be discussed, as will the enhancements to those
architectures that have been welcome by-products of the Technical
Corrigendum.
"Invisible HyTime" 2:15 pm 0:45
Michel Biezunski, Director
High Text SARL
Paris, France
Abstract: HyTime's concepts are perhaps most useful when `hidden' from
the end user. This paper will focus on the concept of independent
linking, which opens new vistas unavailable in traditional hypertext
architectures. Topic maps are presented as one example of something
that is best done in the light of certain HyTime concepts.
(break) 3:00 pm 0:15
[Topic Maps]
Topic Navigation Maps: 3:15 pm 0:30
Modeling Flexibility vs. Modeling Weirdness"
Lois Delcambre, Associate Professor
Oregon Graduate Institute
Portland, Oregon
Abstract: This talk is the result of a systematic investigation of the
information modeling options available in the topic map paradigm.
Since, in HyTime, anything can be an anchor, it may be possible to
create nonsensical topic map constructs, and to use the topic map
formalism in suboptimal ways. An assessment of the various
possibilities will be given.
"Topic Map Research and Prototype Systems 3:45 pm 0:30
at the Oregon Graduate Institute"
Lois Delcambre, Associate Professor
Oregon Graduate Institute
Portland, Oregon
Abstract: Two prototype systems that implement the topic map concept
have been created at the Oregon Graduate Institute. The thinking that
went into these systems, their design, related issues, and the lessons
learned from them will be discussed.
"SGML as a General Agent Communication Language" 4:15 pm 0:45
Matthew Fuchs, Senior Software Designer
Walt Disney Imagineering
Glendale, California
Abstract: How can interactive information be structured in such a way
that the user can be either human or computational? User interfaces
can be represented as a kind of document specifying the application's
requirements. This approach provides new flexibility, and has
implications for the design of network browsers operating in
heterogeneous environments and providing access to heterogeneous
documents.
(adjourn) 5:00 pm
Wednesday, August 21 start time duration
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"Property Sets and Groves" 8:00 am 0:45
W. Eliot Kimber, Senior SGML Consultant and
HyTime Specialist
Passage Systems Inc.
Austin, Texas
Abstract: ISO 10744 provides a formalism, the `Property Set', for
describing the syntactic and semantic properties of such things as
SGML documents and the constructs found in such documents. This is an
extremely useful thing to do, not least because it allows a formal
(and therefore queriable) name to be assigned to each construct and
feature. A Property Set is a lot like an object model. A `grove' is
a set of objects that conforms to a property set, and that is created
by some process such as SGML parsing.
"The SGML Property Set" 8:45 am 0:30
W. Eliot Kimber, Senior SGML Consultant and
HyTime Specialist
Passage Systems Inc.
Austin, Texas
Abstract: Both ISO 10744 and ISO 10179 (DSSSL) contain the official,
standard property set of SGML. All of the features and constructs of
SGML, and the essential relations between them, are represented in
this property set, and each has been given a set of names. In effect,
the SGML property set describes in abstract terms the output of a
conforming SGML parser.
"The HyTime Property Set" 9:15 am 0:45
Peter Newcomb, Senior Software Engineer
TechnoTeacher, Inc.
Rochester, New York
Abstract: The Technical Corrigendum of ISO 10744 includes an expanded
formal property set for the HyTime and General Architectures. This
talk will provide an overview of the HyTime property set, and it will
focus especially on the properties of the hyperlinking and addressing
facilities, and on the special features of property sets required by
the HyTime architecture.
(break) 10:00 am 0:15
"From Property Sets To Database Schemas" 10:15 am 0:45
Peter Newcomb, Senior Software Engineer
TechnoTeacher, Inc.
Rochester, New York
Abstract: This talk is about TechnoTeacher's development of database
schemas from property sets, and particularly its development of a
comprehensive database schema for SGML documents, based on the SGML
property set, and expressed in an object description language.
"Report on the MID Project" 11:00 am 0:15
M. Michael Anderson, President
Antech Systems, Inc.
Chesapeake, Virginia
Abstract: This talk is a brief overview of the state of the MID
(Metafile for Interactive Documents) project of the US Navy, and an
introduction to the presentation by Dave Cooper which immediately
follows this one. The objectives of the MID, how they have been
achieved so far, and the products now available to the public will be
discussed.
"HyMID Relationships" 11:15 am 0:45
Dave Cooper
Antech Systems, Inc.
Durham, North Carolina
Abstract: This presentation will focus on the implementation of HyTime
in the MID <relationship> element. The operation of <relationship>s
will be illustrated using the prototype MID Reader software, HyMID,
which is now available to the public at
http://navycals.dt.navy.mil/mid/midprod.html.
(lunch) 12:00 pm 1:00
"SoftQuad Panorama Version 2" 1:00 pm 0:20
Kurt Conrad
The Sagebrush Group
Pasco, Washington
Abstract: Panorama was one of the first commercial applications to use
and support the HyTime Standard. SoftQuad is completing a major
revision of the package. This presentation will provide an overview
of Panorama Pro version 2, now in beta release, and highlight the
changes from the previous version.
"AECMA 1000-D Specifies HyTime" 1:20 pm 0:20
Brian L. Johnson, with Jeffrey Bradshaw
Boeing Defense and Space Group
The Boeing Company
Seattle, Washington
Abstract: The technical documentation for certain European aircraft
will be represented using HyTime. This report will provide some
details about the AECMA 1000-D standard.
"Strongly Typed Hyperlinks" 1:40 pm 0:20
Derek Denny-Brown, Software Engineer
TechnoTeacher, Inc.
Rochester, New York
Abstract: The typing strength of HyTime hyperlinks provide an
extensible way to reuse existing data without having to copy or alter
it, and to make it a sharable resource. Strong typing of hyperlinks
has some interesting implications.
"Defaulting Rules for the HyTime Architecture" 2:00 pm 0:30
W. Eliot Kimber, Senior SGML Consultant and
HyTime Specialist
Passage Systems Inc.
Austin, Texas
Abstract: Good defaulting rules can make it much easier to learn and
use many specification languages; HyTime can benefit from this. The
author proposes that the ISO 10744 Technical Corrigendum have
several enhancements to its defaulting rules, so that saying less
will be more meaningful more often.
"Product Announcements" 2:30 pm 0:15
(Those who have product announcements should
make arrangements with Steve Newcomb to make
those announcements during this time slot.)
(break) 2:45 pm 0:15
"Requirements for Activity Policy Applications" 3:00 pm 0:45
Chris Higgins
School of Law
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Abstract: Today, activity policies are usually expressed on paper, and
they take the form of licensing agreements between information asset owners
and their licensees, written in natural language. In written
agreements, however, the conventions of natural language often
interfere with the total formality and precision that must
characterize such agreements, and this is much of the reason why legal
jargon is regarded as gibberish by much of the general population.
(Ironically, computers generally can't understand it, either.)
However, it seems inevitable that someday the degree of detail and
nuance that can be expressed and enforced by information delivery
systems acting as brokers and escrow agents on behalf of owners and
licensees will ultimately approach that of natural language. What are
some of the requirements that such systems must fulfill, and,
particularly, what are the expressive requirements of the languages
that will describe policies of information owners with respect to
their assets?
"Standard Music Description Language -- 3:45 pm 0:45
Ten Years Later, an ISO 10743 Standard"
Alan D. Talbot
Graphire Corporation
Abstract: The speaker, who was the first Secretary of the SMDL
committee that eventually created HyTime, as well as the founder of an
important supplier of music typesetting systems to the professional
music publishing industry, will summarize the SMDL standard and
discuss its significance for the music industry.
"A Topic Map of This Conference's Proceedings" 4:30 pm 0:30
Michel Biezunski and Catherine Hamon
High Text SARL
Paris, France
Abstract: Some (and with luck, eventually all) of the speakers at this
conference have provided their papers to High Text SARL in support of
an experiment in quick topic mapping, using High Text's unique
EnLighteN software and topic mapping services. If the experiment
succeeds, conference participants will receive the Proceedings of this
conference in electronic form, accompanied by a topic map, which will
make the contents of the Proceedings much more useful and handy for
later reference.
(adjourn) 5:00 pm
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Speakers at 1996 GCA HyTime Conference
Mr. M. Michael Anderson, President
Antech Systems, Inc.
1716 Lambert Court
Chesapeake, Virginia 23320 USA
+1 804 366 5385
fax +1 804 366 5494
antech@infi.net
Dr. Michel Biezunski, Directeur
Electronic Document Engineering
High Text S.A.R.L.
75010 Paris FRANCE
+33 1 4205 9315
fax: +33 1 4205 9248
michel@hightext.com
http://www.hightext.com
ftp://ftp.hightext.com
Dr. Jeffrey Bradshaw, Senior Principal Scientist
The Boeing Company
7L-44
POB 3707
Seattle, Washington 98124 USA
+1 206 865 6086
fax +1 206 865 2965
jbrad@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com
Mr. Claude "Len" Bullard, Computer Systems Analyst
Electronic Document Management
Lockheed Martin
4000 S. Memorial Parkway
Huntsville, Alabama 35802 USA
+1 205 880 5601
fax +1 205 880 5550 or 5506
cbullard@HiWAAY.net
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard
Mr. Kurt Conrad
The Sagebrush Group
1712 N. 20th Ave
Pasco, Washington 99301-3302 USA
+1 509 546 9360
fax +1 509 544 9790
conrad@cbvcp.com
conrad@3-cities.com
Mr. David W. Cooper
Antech Systems, Inc.
15 Daile Court
Durham, North Carolina 27712 USA
+1 919 383 6919
fax +1 919 383 6781
dwcooper@nando.net
72203.3503@compuserve.com
Ms. Carla Corkern, President
Highland Consulting
ISOGEN International Corp
2200 N. Lamar
Suite 230
Dallas, Texas 75202 USA
carla@isogen.com
Dr. Lois Delcambre, Associate Professor
Oregon Graduate Institute
P. O. Box 91000
Portland, Oregon 97291-1000 USA
+1 503 690 1689 (includes voice mail); secretary: +1 503 690 1112
fax +1 503 690 1553
lmd@cse.ogi.edu
Mr. Derek Denny-Brown, Software Engineer
TechnoTeacher, Inc.
(3800 Monroe Avenue, Pittsford, NY 14534)
P. O. Box 23795
Rochester, New York 14692-3795 USA
+1 716 389 0963
fax +1 716 389 0960
derdb@techno.com
http://www.techno.com
ftp://ftp.techno.com
Dr. Matthew Fuchs, PhD, Senior Software Designer
Walt Disney Imagineering
1401 Flower Street
P. O. Box 25020
Glendale, California 91221-5020 USA
+1 818 544 7809
matt@wdi.disney.com
http://galt.cs.nyu.edu/students/fuchs
Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb, Project Leader, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 SWG on Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (``HyTime'')
Information Management Consulting
13075 Paramount Drive
Saratoga, California 95070 USA
+1 408 867 5553
Charles@sgmlsource.com
http://www.sgmlsource.com
ftp://ftp.sgmlsource.com
Dr. Catherine Hamon
High Text SARL
75010 Paris FRANCE
+33 1 4205 9315
fax +33 1 4205 9248
hamon@hightext.com
http://www.hightext.com
ftp://ftp.hightext.com
Mr. Christopher W. Higgins
6909 Weedin Place NE
B-304
Seattle, Washington 98115 USA
chiggins@u.washington.edu
Dr. Brian L. Johnson
Boeing Defense and Space Group
MS 3E-EL
POB 3999
Seattle, Washington 98124-2499 USA
+1 206 657 2630
fax +1 206 773 3130
brian.l.johnson@boeing.com
Mr. W. Eliot Kimber, Systems Analyst and HyTime Consultant
Passage Systems Inc.
2608 Pinewood Terrace
Austin, Texas 78757-2137 USA
+1 512 339 1400
kimber@passage.com
http://www.passage.com
http://www.techno.com/~eliot, http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/drmacro (home)
Mr. Peter J. Newcomb, Senior Software Engineer
TechnoTeacher, Inc.
P. O. Box 23795
Rochester, New York 14692-3795 USA
direct: +1 716 389 0965; main: +1 716 389 0961
fax +1 716 389 0960
peter@techno.com
http://www.techno.com
ftp://ftp.techno.com
Dr. Steven R. Newcomb, President
TechnoTeacher, Inc.
P. O. Box 23795
Rochester, New York 14692-3795 USA
direct +1 716 389 0964; main +1 716 389 0961
fax +1 716 389 0960
srn@techno.com
http://www.techno.com
ftp://ftp.techno.com
Mr. Alan D. Talbot, Secretary Emeritus, X3V1.8M
Graphire Corporation
4 Harvest Lane
P. O. Box 838
Wilder, Vermont 05088-0838 USA
+1 802 296 2515
alan@graphire.com
http://www.sover.net/~graphire
info@graphire.com