SGML: Final program for HyTime Conference

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 [Augmented with anchors for inbound links - rcc] Third GCA International HyTime Conference August 20 - 21, 1996 Westin Hotel Seattle, Washington, USA PROGRAM Tuesday, August 20 start time duration ------------------ ---------- -------- (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 -------------------- ---------- -------- "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 ******************************************************************************** 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