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The Tutorials

The Sunday and Monday before the conference, and the Friday following the conference, have been reserved for full-day tutorials on a range of technical and management topics. Delegates can get an introduction to SGML in German or English, and discuss the fine points of HyTime and DSSSL amongst other topics. Two of the tutorials are sponsored by the Electronic Publishing Special Interest Group (EPSIG), covering ISO 12083 and publishing on the Web.

Sunday, 12 May 1996 09:00-17:00 Tutorials

1A - Introduction to SGML

Instructor: Pamela Gennusa, Director, and Darren J. Wheatley, Consultant, Database Publishing Systems Ltd, UK

This seminar covers the basic concepts of ISO 8879, the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), together with how its use has evolved since it became a standard. Throughout the tutorial, the issues of using SGML related to an organizations business requirements is continually addressed.

2A - SELECTING AN SGML AUTHORING STRATEGY

Instructor: Marcy Thompson, Manager, Consulting and Training, Passage Systems, Inc., USA

An important decision in SGML implementation design is concerned with the creation of SGML documents. This one-day course provides a neutral discussion of the options and the opportunity to perform a hands-on comparison.

3A&B - INTRODUCTION TO THE DOCUMENT STYLE SEMANTICS AND SPECIFICATIONS LANGUAGE (DSSSL)

Instructors: Sharon Adler, Principal Applications Consultant, and Anders Berglund, President, Berglund Consulting & Type Foundry, Senior Applications Consultant, Electronic Book Technologies, Inc., USA, James Clark, UK

DSSSL, ISO/IEC 10179, is an International Standard for the formatting and other processing of SGML documents. This two-day tutorial provides an overview of the concepts on which the language is based as well as detailed examples. Formatting issues are examined on Sunday; transformation issues on Monday.

4A&B - THE ELIOT KIMBER HYTIME COURSE

Instructor: Eliot Kimber, Senior SGML Consultant and HyTime Specialist, Passage Systems, Inc., USA

This HyTime Tutorial covers all aspects of the standard (ISO 10744), providing attendees with a technical expertise that they can apply to problems that they alone cannot solve. Topics covered include: HyTime basics, architectural forms, HyTime addressing and linking, finite coordinate spaces and techniques for enhancing SGML applications by the use of HyTime.

5A- THE WORLD WIDE WEB*

Instructor: Eric Van Herwijnen, President, NICE Technologies, France

This tutorial explains the World Wide Web and how to use it, from square one. Attendees come away with a detailed strategy on how to become active on the Web and a complete understanding of how the Web can revolutionize the way your organization communicates with the world.

Monday, 13 May 1996 09:00-17:00 Tutorials

1B - DAS SGML-KONZEPT (The Concept of SGML, presented in German)

Instructors: Robert Erfle and Gunter von Zadow, DOSCO Document Systems Consulting GmbH, Germany

Das Seminar bietet eine Einfuhrung in das SGML-Konzept. Das Hauptziel besteht darin, die wichtigsten Bestandteile der SGML-Sprache zu erlautern. Damit wird bei den Teilnehmern die Grundlage geschaffen fur das Verstandnis der Eigenschaften und Vorteile von SGML in Dokumentationsprojekten. Diese \eigenschaften werde+n im einzelnen diskutiert. Das Seminar schliesst mit einer Klassifizierung der SGML-Werkzeuge an Hand einer typischen SGML-Anwendung.

2B - INTRODUCTION TO SGML REPOSITORIES

Instructor: Ken Matheson, Technical Project Manager, Highland Consulting, USA

This seminar looks at the real business value of repositories, where they came from, the various types of repositories, and how they can compliment other information management technologies. The major players in the market are reviewed.

3A&B - INTRODUCTION TO THE DOCUMENT STYLE SEMANTICS AND SPECIFICATIONS LANGUAGE (DSSSL)

Instructors: Sharon Adler, and Anders Berglund, Electronic Book Technologies, Inc., USA, James Clark, UK

See description in Sunday listing.

4A&B - THE ELIOT KIMBER HYTIME COURSE

Instructor: Eliot Kimber, Passage Systems, Inc., USA

See description in Sunday listing.

5 - PRACTICAL SGML AND ISO 12083 - ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING STANDARD*

Instructor: Eric Van Herwijnen, NICE Technologies, France

PART 1: PRACTICAL SGML This tutorial provides a non-technical introduction to SGML, and shows how by introducing structure, SGML can be used to create a final product whose value to the client is long term. It presents a complete overview of SGML giving the participant the necessary information to make a decision to use SGML - continue using it.

PART 2: ISO 12083: THE ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING STANDARD The aim of this tutorial is to provide professional publishers, librarians, and information scientists with in-depth knowledge of ISO 12083. This knowledge should help them build an SGML publishing system based on ISO 12083. Numerous examples are given to illustrate the 'tricky' parts of the standard, such as modifying the DTDs to be compatible with the standard, such as modifying the DTDs to be compatible with the standard, mathematics, and how to include tabular material.

* sponsored by the Electronic Publishing Special Interest Group (EPSIG).

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