var@iris.brown.edu (Victor A. Riley) (09/20/90)
X3V1.8M MUSIC IN INFORMATION PROCESSING STANDARDS (MIPS) COMMITTEE
operating under the rules and procedures of the
American National Standards Institute
MEETING NOTICE and DRAFT AGENDA - FOURTEENTH MEETING
MEETING NOTICE:
Meeting times:
Monday, November 12, 1990, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM.
Tuesday, November 13, 1990, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM.
Wednesday, November 14, 1990, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Thursday, November 15, 1990, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM.
Friday, November 16, 1990, 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM.
Meeting Host:
International Business Machines Corporation
Charles F. Goldfarb, Senior Analyst
Meeting Location:
IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Road
San Jose, California 95120
(408) 927 2577
WRITTEN CONTRIBUTIONS
The usual mailing of papers contributed since the last mail-
ing, together with the most recent revision of X3V1.8M/SD-7,
the Journal of Development for the HyTime Hypermedia/Time-
based Document Representation Language (seventh draft dated
September 5, 1990), will be mailed to participants of record
shortly. This new version of SD-7 reflects the work done at
the thirteenth meeting (and at the adjournment thereof) on
hyperlinks, document locations, etc. Any additional contri-
buted papers should be sent in camera-ready form, as usual,
to Vice-chairman Steven R. Newcomb, Center for Music
Research, School of Music, Florida State University, Tal-
lahassee, FL 32306-2098 USA. Because of popular and indus-
trial demand, and in keeping with the consensus of the
participants, consideration of some papers having solely to
do with music issues is being deferred until HyTime has been
stabilized as a draft proposed standard; that should happen
pretty soon now. However, contributions regarding the
development of the Standard Music Description Language are
always welcome, they continue to be solicited, and they will
receive due consideration.
LODGING
The committee has met several times now at the Almaden
Research Center. A popular place to stay is the Campbell
Inn, 675 E. Campbell Avenue, Campbell, CA. The accomoda-
tions are unremarkable but quite comfortable. There is a
special IBM rate of $80/night, which includes a fairly sump-
tuous breakfast. Reservations should be made as early as
possible. The direct phone number is (408) 374 4300; the
toll free reservation number is (800) 582 4300.
TRAVEL
It is possible to travel directly to San Jose by air, and it
is generally less expensive to go to San Francisco and drive
to San Jose, particularly if you are renting a car anyway.
There is really no way to get to the Almaden Research Center
except by automobile. If there are empty seats in the
car(s) of other participants who are staying at the Campbell
Inn, you may be able to get a limo to the Campbell Inn from
the San Jose airport, and ride daily to ARC in someone
else's car.
NOTE: It's best to arrive early in order to have time for
the obligatory security check before entering the Almaden
Research Center.
NOTES TO NEW PARTICIPANTS/OBSERVERS:
1. Prospective members and observers are welcome at any
time to participate in the current technical work of
the committee. (You can be most effective in conveying
your viewpoint if you can present it in the context of
the current work -- in other words, please be familiar
with X3V1.8M/SD-6, SD-7 and SD-8. If you don't have
these, they can be obtained for a nominal charge from
the X3V1.8M Secretariat.) New participants are also
urged to obtain and read ISO 8879 (Standard Generalized
Markup Language). ISO 8879 is obtainable from the
Graphic Communications Association, 1730 North Lynn
Street, Suite 604, Arlington, Virginia 22209-2085, for
$67.50 (156 pp.). You should also obtain International
Standard ISO 8879:1986/Amendment 1 from the same organ-
ization.
2. As usual, a portion of the second day's meeting
(Wednesday) has been set aside for persons who wish to
address the committee on topics of their own choosing,
relating to the subject matter or methodology of the
committee's work. Mr. Dave Gunning of the U. S. Air
Force's Human Resources Laboratory at Wright-Patterson
AFB will be presenting the Content Data Model his
organization has developed.
3. New participants are asked (but not required) to inform
Charles Goldfarb (c/o Sue Orlando, IBM Almaden Research
Center, 408/927-2578) or Steve Newcomb (Florida State
University Center for Music Research, Tallahassee, FL
32306-2098, 904/644-5786) if they plan to attend. If
you are not expected, you may be delayed at one or more
of the security checkpoints before entering the Center.
DRAFT AGENDA:
Monday
Administrative matters, including: opening, approval of
agenda, introduction of new participants, and schedul-
ing the fifteenth (and possibly the sixteenth)
meeting(s). Technical work will include a review of the
changes to SD-7 made as a result of work done at the
thirteenth meeting.
Tuesday
Continuation of review of SD-7. Consideration of
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG12 (MHEG) Coded Representation of
Multimedia and Hypermedia Information, and other con-
tributed documents.
Wednesday
Continuation of Tuesday's agenda. Presentation by Dave
Gunning on the AFHRL Content Data Model, and considera-
tion of how it may articulate with HyTime.
Thursday
Continuation of Wednesday's agenda. Review of the
operating model of a HyTime engine outlined at the
thirteenth meeting.
Friday
Enumeration of instructions to the editors regarding a
draft standard HyTime proposal. Adjournment.