yuri@sq.sq.com (Yuri Rubinsky) (08/12/90)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND POSTER PROPOSALS SGML '90: Building Architectures of Information for the Future and the Past SGML Tutorials: November 5, 1990 Conference: November 6 - 8, 1990 The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Philadelphia, PA. Sponsored by the Graphics Communications Association Since 1982, the GCA has been hosting conferences related to SGML, including the International Markup Series and TechDoc. In 1988, the association sponsored Standards and the Desktop, which was the first of what has turned out to be the SGML Series. While SGML '89 was devoted to exploring the realm of the possible -- SGML applications real or imagined -- SGML '90 will be a working conference of SGML professionals sharing implementation experiences and discussing practical examples of their application solutions in detail. The conference will have two components: a collection of long presentations (making up half of each day) and poster sessions, one-and-a-half-hour periods during which a number of people will simultaneously present ideas, strategies and detailed content models on a theme. Attendees will be encouraged to move around the room from presenter to presenter, engaging in discussion in small groups, offering their own solutions to problems mentioned, and so on. _Call_for_Presenters:_ A small co-ordinating committee is currently drafting a conference program that will highlight specific SGML issues and constructs. People interested in presenting portions of their DTDs or content-model-related issues, should please come forward. Send one or two paragraphs describing what you will discuss to Marion Elledge at GCA, 1730 North Lynn Street, Suite 604, Arlington VA, 22209-2085 USA, fax it to 703 841-8144, or email to yuri@sq.com Some suggested themes and topics are: the creation of tabular material; the mapping of SGML content to relational databases; support for computer-aided research (participants in the Text Encoding Initiative will present their work); SGML constructs for handling multiple versions or effectivities in technical documents; encoding for cross-referencing and hypertexts (members of the ANSI working group on Music and Hypertext Encoding will present aspects of their work); structures for building indexes (in individual and among multiple documents) and tables of contents; encoding for mathematics; support for multiple languages; documentation for SGML Document Type Definitions; support/training of DTDs; special characters; elements versus attributes; adopting and adapting the Assocation of American Publishers' Book, Article and Serial DTDs; adopting and adapting the US Department of Defense Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support (CALS) DTDs; making multi-vendor implementations work.