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.