SGML: SGML History/Memories (SGML '96)

Subject: SGML History/Memories

Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 19:23:45 GMT

From: sgml96@netcom.com (Tommie Usdin)

Newsgroup: comp.text.sgml


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This year is the tenth anniversary of the SGML standard.  For SGML'96
(November, Boston) we are planning a brief review of events in the
develoment and use of SGML.  Please help!  Remind us of the important
events.  We are interested in the standard and its development, and the
products, the applications, the people, the meetings, the false starts
and the successes.

What were the most significant:
   Events in standards develoment? What happened? Who was
      there? What was most significant about it?
      We are interested both in the SGML standard AND in 
      the full complement of related standards)

   Products? When were they announced? When did they ship?
      Did they break any new ground?  Open any new markets?
      Highlight any new kinds of documents or processing?

   Demonstrations? What did it show? When and where?

   Applications?  Who did it?  What was so innovative?

   Meetings?  Who was there?  Who said what?  What was most
      important?

   People?  What did this person do?  When?  What is most
      remarkable about them or their work?

   Organizations?  What is their involvement with SGML?
      Are they unusual or specially significant in any way?

For each item, please give as accurate a date as you can -- remember,
memory can be treacherous, so check the dates and details as fully as
you can -- a brief  description (20 to 50 words), and a source of 
more information on the topic (a citation to an article, a URL, a 
name and phone number, or whatever is available). Send memories to the 
SGML'96 committee at sgml96@netcom.com or to Tommie Usdin, Mulberry 
Technologies, Inc., 6010 Executive Blvd, Suite 608, Rockville, MD 20852.



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                              SGML'96
       Celebrating a Decade of SGML;  But Wait ... There's MORE

Technical Program email:   sgml96@netcom.com

Conference Co-Chairs:      B. Tommie Usdin
                           Deborah A. Lapeyre
                           Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
                           301/231-6930

GCA Contact:               Joy Blake; Graphic Communications Association
                           703/519-8177
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