Article: 5794 of comp.text.sgml
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Date: 02 Sep 1994 18:54:41 UT
From: Tommie Usdin <acg-sgml@access3.digex.net>
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Subject: Re: Request for SGML 94 info
Excerpts from the Program for SGML '94
For more information or a full program contact:
Graphic Communications Association
100 Daingerfield Road
Alexandria, VA 22314-2888
Phone: 703/519-8160
Fax: 703/548-2867
E-Mail: blake@access.digex.net
SGML '94
November 7-10, 1994
Sheraton Premiere, Tysons Corner
Vienna, Virginia
Sunday, November 6
The Just Enough Tutorial Series
Marcy Thompson, Manager of Education and Training, SoftQuad
Inc., Tutorial Coordinator
9:00 am-12:00 noon
Just Enough Concepts
Introduction to SGML with no prerequisites. What is SGML?
Who uses it? How do they use it? How does it work?
Just Enough Syntax
Introduction to SGML with no prerequisites. Basic overview
of SGML followed by a survey of SGML markup.
1:00 pm-4:00 pm
Just Enough Syntax and Just Enough Concepts (continued)
Just Enough Databases
How does SGML mesh with document databases? Discussion of
full text, relational and object-oriented approaches.
Just Enough Electronic Delivery
An overview of methods of delivering SGML documents
electronically.
Just Enough Paper Publishing
What must you do to an SGML document to turn it into a
printed document?
9:00 am-5:00 pm
OmniMark User Group
6:30 pm-10:30 pm
Opening Reception and Dinner Aboard a Potomac River Cruise
Monday, November 7: General Session
9:00 am
Opening Remarks
Yuri Rubinsky, President, SoftQuad Inc., Conference Chairman
9:15 am
The Year in Review
Yuri Rubinsky and B. Tommie Usdin, Vice President, ATLIS
Consulting Group, Conference Co-chair
10:00 am
Conference Keynote: State of the Web - The NCSA Mosaic View
of the World's Largest SGML Application
Joseph Hardin, Associate Director, Software Development
Group, National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
11:00 am Poster Session
Application Track 1:45 pm: Document Engineering at the Canadian
Department of National Defence CALS Office.
Ken Holman, Vice President, R&D, Microstar Software Ltd.
2:30 pm: An SGML-based News Agency
Tibor Tscheke, Managing Director, STEP GmbH
3:30 pm : Towards an SGML-based Architecture for
Operations and Maintenance Documentation in the
Telecommunications Industry
Wolfgang Weber, Systems Analyst, Siemens AG
4:15 pm: SGML Environment for Developers of Product
Data Exchange Standards
Lisa Phillips, Computer Scientist, and Joshua Lubell,
Computer Scientist, National Institute of Standards and
Technology
7:30 pm-10:00 pm: Evening Workshop: Table Handling,
Session Chair: Eric Severson, Executive Vice President,
Avalanche Development
Theory Track
1:45 pm: Project YAO and Other News
Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb, Principal Consultant, Information
Managment Consulting
2:30 pm: Document Conversion - How Does SGML Markup
Acquire Behavior?
Kevin Allen, Senior Systems Engineer, InfoAccess
3:30 pm: SGML, DTD Design and Coding, In-House Publishing,
Corporate Image, and Synergy
Robert Erfle and Gunter von Zadow, IBM European Networking
Center
4:15 pm: SGML Model for Statistical Tables
Dianne Kennedy, Vice President Strategic Systems,
ActiveSystems
7:30 pm-10:00 pm: Evening Workshop: Graphic Representation
of Structure
Session Chair: B. Tommie Usdin, Vice President, ATLIS
Consulting Group
Tuesday, November 8
Management Track
8:30 am: SGML Is Not a Solution
Marcy Thompson, Manager of Education & Training, SoftQuad
Inc.
9:00 am: Reconciling Internal and Interchange Requirements, or How to
Survive the Industry Initiative
Lani Hajagos, FrameBuilder Marketing Manager, Frame
Technology Corporation
10:00am: The Human Aspects of Using SGML
Astrid E. Jenssen and Tone Irene Sandahl, University
Center for Information Technology Services, University of
Oslo
10:45 am: Practical Approaches to SGML Page Composition
Francois Chahuneau, Director, AIS Berger Levrault
11:30 am: Implementation Issues and Project Management
John W. Oster II, Principal Consultant, McAfee & McAdam,
Ltd.
1:00 pm: The Impact of SGML on Training in an Organization
Jeanne El Andaloussi, Manager, Document Engineering Group,
Bull S. A.
1:45 pm: Reusing Information through SGML Building Blocks
John J. Shockro, CEA, Incorporated
2:30 pm: Management of SGML Documents
Eric Severson, Executive Vice President, Avalanche and
Ludo van Vooren, Director Customer Solutions, Interleaf
3:30 pm: SGML: It's Not Just for Documents Anymore
Kurt Conrad, Internal Consultant, Boeing Computer Services
System Overview Track
Tools and Technologies for SGML-Based Information Systems
8:30 am: Introduction
Mary Laplante, Executive Director, SGML Open
9:00 am: DTD, Application, and System Utilities
Debbie Lapeyre, Consultant, ATLIS Consulting Group
10:00 am: Parsers, Transformers, and Conversion Tools
Pamela Gennusa, Director, Database Publishing Systems,
Inc.
11:00 am: Editors and Authoring Systems
Paul Grosso, Vice President, ArborText
1:00 pm: Databases, Document and Workflow Management
Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Academic Computing Center,
University of Illinois at Chicago
2:00 pm: Electronic Delivery
Tim Bray, Senior Vice President of Technology, OpenText
Corporation
3:15 pm: Layout and Composition
Mark Walters, Editor, Seybold Publications
General Session 4:15 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm Author Signing Party
7:30 pm-9:30 pm Evening Workshop
SGML Open Panel: SGML and the Internet
Session Chair: Larry Bohn, Interleaf
Wednesday, November 9
General Session
8:30 am: The Golden DTD: Using Data-Centered DTD's to
Meet Business Goals
Gregory S. Vaughan, Senior Technical Consultant, Database
Publishing Systems, Inc.
9:15 am: RealSGML: Digital Service Bulletins for Commercial
Aviation
Harry Summerfield, President, Zandar Corporation and
Freelon Hunter, Project Manager, Boeing Commercial
Airplane Group
10:00 am: Alchemy for the Masses: Automating the Construction
of SGML Conversion Applications
David Sklar, Director of Applications, Electronic Book
Technologies
11:00 am Poster Session
1:15 pm-3:00 pm Product News Flashes
7:00 pm-10:00 pm Product Demonstration Table Tops
Thursday, November 10: Theory Track 8:30 am
The Whys, Whats and Hows of Partial Documents in SGML
Eric Freese, Principal Software Developer, Information
Dimensions, Inc.
9:00 am: SUBDOC, A Useful Construct for Publishing
Mike Maziarka, Frame/Datalogics
9:30 am: Is SHORTREF Still Meaningful?
John McFadden, President, Exoterica
10:15 am: Encoding SDIF in the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
(MIME)
Edward Levinson, Technical Director, Accurate Information
Systems, Inc.
10:45 am: File Format for Documents Containing both Logical Structures
and Layout Structures
Makoto Murata, Fuji Xerox
11:15 pm: Simplified Authoring for a Complex DTD
Keith Fabling, Lead Publications Engineer (CTAS), Boeing
Commercial Airplanes and Michael A. Murray, Senior
Principal Scientist, Boeing Computer Services
11:45 am: Creating SGML Objects for End-Users
Jean Paoli, Technical Director, Grif S.A.
Application Track
8:30 am: Converting More Than 1 Million Pages to SGML
Richard Barth, Director of Operations, Data Conversion
Laboratory
9:00 am: Conversion to SGML
Bill Preacher, Managing Director, Pindar Infotek
9:30 am: Creation of Electronic Technical Manuals Using SGML
James Frizzel, Software Development Engineer, Docucon
10:15 am: The Conversion of Legacy Technical Documents into IETMs; A
NAVAIR Phase II SBIR Progress Report
Timothy E. Billington, Senior Information Engineer,
Information Engineering Group, Aquidneck Management
Associates, Ltd.
10:45 am: Document Type Definitions: A Case Study for A Common Set of
High Level Tags for an IETM
Michael Graser, Martin Marietta Corporation
11:15 am: Building an SGML-based IETM
Alan Porter, Technology Development Executive, OMI
Logistics Ltd.
11:45 am: The Reality of Military Document Analysis
Lawrence A. Beck, Northrop Grumman Data
Systems/InfoConversion, and Lewis M. McCormack, Northrop
Grumman Aerospace & Electronics
General Session
1:00 pm
Lunch and Closing Keynote: Pushing the SGML Paradigm
Jean-Pierre Gaspart, Managing Director, Associated
Consultants and Software Engineers (A.C.S.E)
Registration Form
I am attending (check all boxes that apply):
Just Enough Tutorials, Sunday, November 6
_ Just Enough SGML Syntax
_ 9:00 am-12:00 noon*
_ 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Just Enough SGML Concepts
_ 9:00 am-12:00 noon*
_ 9:00 am-4:00 pm
* You may choose to only attend for the first half of the
day. This gives you the opportunity to attend one of the
other courses in the afternoon.
1:00 pm-4:00 pm (only)
_ Just Enough Databases
_ Just Enough Electronic Delivery
_ Just Enough Paper Publishing
Tutorial Fees:
Full Day Rates (9:00am-4:00pm)
$145/GCA Member discount $110
Half Day Rates (9:00am-noon or 1:00-4:00 pm)
$85/GCA Member discount $50
Tutorial fees are additional. If you plan to attend the
conference, you must pay a conference registration fee as
well.
SGML '94 Conference
November 7-10, 1994
Registration fee $845
GCA member discount $640
Educational Institution* discount $502
*Accredited University or College
I would like to participate as a vendor in the product
demonstration.*
Nonmember rate $650/two 6-foot tables
Member rate $425/two 6-foot tables
Cruise Ship Dandy Reception and Dinner
Sunday, November 6, 1994
$10 Conference Registrant
$30 Guest Fee
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