International Conference on the Application of HyTime - Program Announcement
Title: IHC '97
Author: "Steven R. Newcomb" <srn@techno.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:54:36 -0400
PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
THE 4th INTERNATIONAL HYTIME CONFERENCE
IHC '97
August 19-20, 1997
Le Centre Sheraton Hotel
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
IHC '97 Conference Chair: Steve Newcomb
(The conference will be preceded by two days of tutorials and
followed by XML Developers' Day.)
HyTime is one of the SGML family of ISO standards for information
representation and interchange. HyTime is the only internationally
standard way to represent hypermedia documents, and, with its object
structure modeling capabilities, which undergird the "grove" paradigm
used in SGML (including XML) and DSSSL, it is unarguably the most
general, abstract, and advanced way to use SGML, and to re-use
information of all kinds in every way.
This conference brings together HyTime users, prospective HyTime
users, systems vendors, systems integrators, applications developers,
consultants, and researchers to compare notes, share lore, ask
questions, and develop answers. These annual GCA-sponsored
conferences on HyTime are unique opportunities for everyone who wants
to explore the cutting edge of practical hypermedia information
interchange.
For questions and more information on attending the conference, please
contact the GCA at 100 Daingerfield Road, 4th Floor, Alexandria, Virginia
22314-2228 (Telephone: +1 703 519 8160, Fax: +1 703 548 2867
or visit GCA's Web site at http://www.gca.org.
Speakers at IHC '97:
Carla Corkern, ISOGEN.
"Hotspotting with HyTime"
Fred Dalrymple, Martin Hensel Corp.
"Implementing HyTime for Drug Interactions for Mosby Yearbook."
Jacques Deseyne, Sema Group Belgium
"DSSSL transformations, the DSSSL expression language, SDQL, and
groves."
Charles F. Goldfarb (Project Editor, ISO 8879 & 10744),
Information Management Consulting
Keynote: "State of the HyTime Standard"
Masatomo Goto, Fujitsu Laboratories
"The HyBrick Browser Project"
Donna Hanlon, Mosby Yearbook
"HyTime for Dummies"
Lloyd Harding, Information Assembly Automation
"The Kona architecture for Health Level 7 (HL7) data representation
and interchange."
Chris Higgins,
Lane, Powell, Spears, Lubersky, LLP
"Preparing for Intelligent Information Systems: Activity Policies,
Electronic Agents and Ethical Transactions."
W. Eliot Kimber, ISOGEN
"Everyday HyTime in everyday applications."
"HyTime valueref in aircraft manual authoring management"
Neill Kipp, Virginia Tech
"HyTime for the Digital Library: The HyTime Engine Peer-Peer
Protocol (HEP)".
Steven R. Newcomb
"Doing XML with HyTime."
"GroveMinder"
Daniel Rivers-Moore, Rivcom
"Toward STEP Interchange: Seeing the Document as a Snapshot of the
Data."
Lloyd Rutledge, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)
"Putting the Media back in Hypermedia: HyTime for Portable
Multimedia Documents".
Jason Williams, Oceania
"A clinical systems vendor's perspective on HL7, SGML, SGML
architectures, and the Kona architecture."
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Tutorials -- Sunday and Monday, August 17-18
Eliot Kimber's HyTime Course*
Introduction To XML
Practical Formatting Using DSSSL
*All HyTime beginners are urged to attend this course. It will provide the
understandings needed to participate fully in the conference.
Eliot Kimber+s HyTime Course
Instructor: Eliot Kimber, Senior Consulting Engineer, Highland Consulting
In this tutorial, Mr. Kimber introduces the key concepts in HyTime,
including hyperlinking, addressing, architectures, groves, and property sets
while also providing practical instruction on how to declare
HyTime-conforming element types and create HyTime documents. The sessions
include many working demonstrations using a variety of HyTime tools, all of
which students may take with them at the end of the course.
Introduction to Extensible Markup Language (XML)
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 all the structural and validation features
expected from SGML. The name emphasizes the key features expected from SGML.
The name emphasizes the key features as it will be seen by an HTML user --
the ability to define new tags and attributes.
This tutorial reviews the XML specification to to bottom. Attendees go away
with a complete 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.
Practical Formatting Using DSSSL
Instructor: Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights Ltd.
"Practical Formatting Using DSSSL" introduces the concepts and formatting
basics of the Document Style Semantics and Specification Language using the
publicly available James' Awesome DSSSL Engine program. The course combines
the use of lectures and hands-on exercises to convey the material.
Attendees are invited to bring a Windows'95- or Windows'NT-equipped
personal computer for the practical exercises. The objectives of the
course are to understand the role of the DSSSL standard and the utility of
the JADE application, to successfully write DSSSL programs and to
efficiently navigate the available documentation and resources.
Pre-requisites:
Attendees must have knowledge of SGML concepts and syntax, as this is not
covered explicitly in the course. To participate in the hands-on exercises
using JADE, they must have either Windows'95 or Windows'NT. Attendees will
be informed of a number of resources that are freely available from the
Internet that are required, though copies will be made available at the
course. It does help to have some computer programming experience to do the
exercises, though this is not mandatory as non-programmers are given
complete solutions to research in place of deriving the exercise solutions
on their own.
HyTime/DSSSL/XML Developers:
Time will be alloted during the week for demonstration of existing products
or products in development to support HyTime, XML, and DSSSL. If you are
interested in participating, please contact Marion Elledge at GCA.
Telephone: +1 703/519-8193 or email: melledge@gca.org.
Hotel Information
Le Centre Sheraton Hotel is located at 1201, Boulevard Rene Levesque Quest
in Montreal, Quebec. GCA has negotiated a conference room rate of $130
single/ $160 double Canadian dollars. These rates are exclusive of
provincial and federal sales taxes.
For reservations, call the hotel directly at (514) 878-2000, Fax (514)
878-8214 and identify yourself as a GCA/HyTime/XML attendee. The cut-off
date for reservations is July 25. After that date, reservations are on a
space/rate availability.
Registration Information
To Register
Contact:
Graphic Communications Association
100 Daingerfield Road
Alexandria, VA 22314-2888 USA
Phone: +1 703/519-8160 or in the US call 1-800-SGML-GCA
FAX: +1 703/548-2867 with credit card information
Web site: www.gca.org
IHC+97/Tutorial/XML Developers Registration
IHC+97 Fees:
GCA Nonmember: $645
GCA Member: $505
Tutorials:
Eliot Kimbers Hytime Course Fees (two-day course):
Sunday-Monday, August 17-18
GCA Nonmember $735
GCA Member $560
XML Tutorial (one-day course):
Monday, August 18
GCA Nonmember $375
GCA Member $280
Practical Formatting Using DSSSL (one-day course):
Monday, August 18
GCA Nonmember $375
GCA Member $280
XML Developers Day
GCA Nonmember $325
GCA Member $200
DISCOUNT: Take 10% off total fees if you register for any tutorial, IHC+97,
and the XML Developers Day.
THIS EVENT IS CO-SPONSORED BY GCA AND SGML OPEN
Steven R. Newcomb President
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