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SGML Europe '96: Complete Schedule

Sunday, 12 May 1996

Monday, 13 May 1996

Tuesday, 14 May 1996

Welcome and introduction
Pamela Gennusa, Database Publishing Systems Ltd, Conference Chair, UK
The answer is..., but what is the question?
Paula Leenheer, EP Advisor on EDM, Shell Internationale Exploration and Production B.V., The Netherlands (to be confirmed)
SGML on a strictly business basis
Eric Severson, Vice President and Chief Strategist, Interleaf Inc., USA
Legacy SGML document migration
Dr. Alexander Samarin, ISO Central Secretariat, Switzerland
Inventor's Keynote
Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb, Information Management Consulting, USA



Session A

The question: How does SGML support document management?
Chair: Tibor Tscheke, Managing Director, STEP Sturtz Electronic Publishing GmbH, Germany
SGML document databases - requirements and capabilities
John Chelsom, Managing Director, CSW Informatics Ltd, UK
SGML & relational databases: a practical view
John McFadden, President, Exoterica, Inc. Canada
Automatic documentation in workflow management environments
Erik Meissner, Member Scientific Staff, Computer Graphics Center (ZGDV), Germany
Using SGML & document management to share & reuse information
Michael Maziarka, Director of PDM Product Management, Xyvision, Inc., USA
Element level document management: how does it change your processes?
Lani Hajagos, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Adobe, USA


Session B [split session - runs till 17:30]

The question: How can HyTime enhance an electronic delivery application?
Chair: Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb, Information Management Consulting, USA
Use of SGML & HyTime in NATO ACCS
Peter Sparkes, Chief, Configuration Management Branch, NATO Air Command and Control System Management Agency, Brussels
Delivering documents using SGML & HyTime
Ted Carroll, Director, Product Marketing & Support, Information Dimensions, Northern Europe, UK
When to use HyTime instead of plain SGML? Always!
Albert Bruffaerts, Software Consultant, Sema Group Belgium, Belgium
The question: What is the relationship between SGML and product data
Chair: Jarl Magnusson, Director, CALS Office, FMC (Swedish Defence Material Administration), Sweden
Integration of STEP product data & SGML
Hugh A. Tucker, Information Systems Architect, Documenta ApS, Denmark
SGML & STEP
Peter Bergstrom, EuroSTEP, Sweden
Document management utilizing product models
Kimmo Elovainio, Research Scientist, VTT Information Technology, Finland
[NOTE: based on interest by the delegates, this session may be extended for informal discussion.]


Session C - Part I [Part II continued on Wednesday morning]

The question: What tools & technologies are available to support SGML?
Co-chairs: Executive Director, SGML Open, USA; Steve Pepper, SGML Architect, Falch Infotek a.s., Norway
DTD design and document analysis
Thomas Stadler, Director of Consulting and Training, STEP Sturtz Electronic Publishing GmbH, Germany
Parsers, converters, transformers
Darren J. Wheatley, Consultant, Database Publishing Systems Ltd, UK
Authoring systems
Jean Paoli, Technical Director, Grif , France


Session D - Excursion [first of two sessions]

The SGML Safari
Chair: Dr. Manfred Krüger, General Manager, MID/Information Logistics Group GmbH, Germany
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssystemme (computer hardware & software) [See Wednesday morning for the other site]


Wednesday, 15 May 1996

Session A

The question: How is SGML used in commercial publishing? [case studies]
Chair: Paula Leenheer, Shell International Exploration and Production BV, The Netherlands (to be confirmed)
Nightmare on SGML street: marking up patents
Paul Brewin, Directorate Development & Maintenance, European Patent Office, The Netherlands
High-volume, High-accuracy, SGML document capture
Susan Richter-Willis, European Business Development Manager, Rank Xerox Business Services, Document Imaging Services, UK
"The Daily" at Statistics Canada: why SGML was the answer
Marc Pelchat, Head, SGML Unit, Statistics Canada, Canada (to be confirmed)
Automated multimedia publications using SGML
Authors: Jean-Marc Bertinchamps, Managing Director, Electronic Data Processing s.a. and Christain Guittet, Principal Administrator, Eurostat, Luxembourg
SGML Production workshops
M. Christian Rozet, Managing Director, ACSE International sa, Belgium


Session B

The question: How does SGML support the use of complex information?
Chair: Paul Grosso, Vice President, ArborText, Inc., USA
Information analysis - an effort vital for the SGML solution
Svante Ericsson, Senior Consultant/Project Manager, Celsius Inforum AB, Sweden
A tables manifesto
Marcy Thompson, Manager, Consulting and Training, Passage Systems, Inc., USA
SGML and the semantic representation of mathematics
E.R. Pike, Clerk-Maxwell, Professor of Theoretical Physics, King's College, UK
New "SGML General Facilities"
Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb, Information Management Consulting, USA
A software architecture for SGML annotation
David McKelvie, Research Fellow, Language Technology Group, Human Communication Research Centre, Edinburgh University, UK


Session C - Part II [continued from Part 1 on Tuesday afternoon]

The question: What tools and technologies are available to support SGML? (cont'd.)
Co-chairs: Executive Director, SGML Open, USA; Steve Pepper, SGML Architect, Falch Infotek a.s., Norway
Databases, workflow, & document Management
Sebastian Holst, President, Texcel Research, Inc., USA
Electronic delivery systems, browsers, and viewers
Hasse Haito, Co-founder, Synex Information AB, Sweden
Composition & layout tools
Michael McNamara, Director, Xyvision Publishing Europe, UK


Session D - Excursion [second of two sessions]

The SGML Safari
Chair: Dr.Manfred Krueger, General Manager, MID/Information Logistics Group GmbH, Germany
Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG (military aircraft)


Management focus

Evaluating SGML repositories
Ken Matheson, Technical Project Manager, Highland Consulting, USA
SGML-based tools in an integrated production environment
Liora Alschuler, Writer, Consultant, Trainer, The Word Electric, USA and Steve Pepper, SGML Architect, Falch Infotek a.s., Norway
SGML for publishers: unexpected dividends
Francois Chahuneau, Managing Director, AIS/Berger-Levrault, and a panel of SGML users
The truth hurts: SGML has no media appeal
Christian Wallgren, SGML Specialist, PharmaSoft AB, Sweden
Strategies for implementing, maintaining and distributing documents for international markets, especially those in Asia
Robin Masson, President, Unisope, Inc., Japan


Technical focus

Beyond CD-ROM: SGML is even more important
Eric Skinner, Sales Manager, Exoterica, Canada
Designing DTDs in the real world
Jeanne El Andaloussi, Director of Operations and Quality Assurance, AIS/Berger-Levrault, France and Eve Maler, Principal Applications Specialist, ArborText, Inc. , USA
DSSSL Online
Jon Bosak, Senior Member of Technical Staff SunSoft, Inc., USA; Sharon Adler, and Anders Berglund, Electronic Book Technologies, Inc., USA
World Wide Web site design using SGML
Eric Freese, Senior SGML Analyst, and Brian Travis, President, Information Architects, Inc., USA
A software architecture for SGML annotation
David McKelvie, research fellow, Human Communications Research Centre, and Harry S. Thompson, Reader, Department of Artificial Intelligence and the Centre for Cognitive Science, Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, UK
A tables manifesto
Marcy Thompson, Manager, Consulting and Training, Passage Systems, Inc., USA

Thursday, 16 May 1996

Session A

The question: How is SGML used in corporate publishing? [case studies]
Paula Leenheer, EP advisor for EDM, Shell International Exploration and Production, B.V., The Netherlands, (to be confirmed)
Operation & maintenance manual on screen presentation: a case study from the offshore industry in Norway
Frank Lilja, Manager, Information Design, Celsius Inforum AB, Sweden
Using SGML to reduce implementation of new products
Mary Olander, Digital Data Customer Support, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, USA
Managerial and technical experiences from two industrial implementations of integrated, database-driven, SGML publishing systems
Leszek Wawrzyniak, Project Manager and Principle Consultant for CALS Solutions, Computer Sciences Corporation, Germany
SGML as a vehicle for obtaining multivendor interoperability
Marco Meli, TecPad Exploitation Manager, Finsiel Spa, Italy and Antoine Risk, President, Euroclid, France
Producing presentation-oriented technical manuals from content-oriented information models
Ken Holman, Chief Technology Officer, Microstar Software Ltd., Canada


Session B [split session]

The question: How does SGML support authoring
Chair: Dr. Lauren Wood, Technical Product Manager, SoftQuad, Inc., Canada
Cooperative editing of SGML documents and fragments using the WWW and object oriented databases
Jean Paoli, Technical Director, GRIF S.A., France
Joint editing in an SGML environment
Fritz Loseries, Member Scientific Staff, ZGDV, Germany
An SGML-based editorial system in a scientific publishing house
Martin Kreutzer, Project Manager, VCH Publishing Group, Germany
The question: How does SGML Support the use of multiple languages?
Chair: Dr. Lauren Wood, Technical Product Manager, SoftQuad, Inc., Canada
SGML and UNICODE: a solution to multilingual publishing
Roger Schutz, Managing Director, T.I.M.E. LUX s.a.r.l.
SGML, the most powerful tool for terminology Interchange in Eastern Europe
Arturo Quintero, International Division Manager, Moravia Translations a.s., Czech Republic


Session C

The question: What is the role of SGML on the Internet
Chair: Linda Burman, President, L. A. Burman Associates, Canada
They say the World-Wide Web is broken. Is it?
Kate Atherly, Product Manager - SGML, InContext Corporation, Canada
Web Publishing - SGML's role in practice
Steve Pepper, SGML Architect, Falch Infotek a.s., Norway
Does SGML have a role in intranet publishing?
Laura Walker, Product Marketing Manager, Xsoft, a division of Xerox, USA
Managing multilingual document sets
Martin Bryan, Consultant, The SGML Centre, UK
SGML and DSSSL: Gateway to the Web
Dave Sklar, Electronic Book Technologies, USA
The provocative art of crystal ball gazing
Chair: Pamela Gennusa, Director, Database Publishing Systems Ltd,
Panel members: Tim Bray, Senior Vice President, Open Text Inc, Canada; Lou Burnard, Manager, Humanities Computing Services and European Editor of the TEI; Dale Waldt, Director of Data Development, Research Institute of America, a Thompson Company, USA

Friday, 17 May 1996

Topic map navigation: a practical application of HyTime
Michel Biezunski, High Text, France
The Topic Map Navigation is an SGML/HyTime derived architecture. It is the first application that provides user-defined semantics and supports multiple document navigation. Users can create and maintain consistent electronic indexes, glossaries, thesauri, and tables of contents for multiple heterogeneous documents. This tutorial is aimed at users who need to manage a web of documents and want to master the evolution and the meaning of links for documents that are constantly evoloving and enriched. During the workshop, a Topic Map Browser is presented.

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