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- From: yuri@sq.sq.com (Yuri Rubinsky)
- Subject: CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS/POSTERS
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.180651.10162@sq.sq.com>
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- Summary: SGML '92: October 25 to 29, 1992
- Keywords: conference, papers, posters, participation (longish)
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 18:06:51 GMT
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- C O N F E R E N C E C A L L
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- The Graphic Communications Association (GCA) is pleased to announce
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- S G M L ' 9 2 :
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- The Annual Conference for the SGML Technical Community
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- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND POSTER PROPOSALS
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- The fifth annual conference devoted to
- the World's Most Popular Quiet Revolution
- will take place in October in
- Danvers, Massachusetts, USA.
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- SGML Tutorials: October 25, 1992
- Conference: October 26 to 29, 1992
- The Sheraton Tara Hotel, Danvers, Massachusetts, USA.
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- This short posting is the formal Call to Arms:
- A call for papers, call for posters, call for topics,
- call for case studies, call for questions, call for answers,
- call for participation.
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- GENERAL INFORMATION
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- SGML '92 is a high-speed, interactive technical conference for
- people who are using SGML now, or are just on the verge.
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- We will hear success stories and discuss the problems and issues facing
- users in the telecommunications, airlines, pharmaceutical, insurance,
- legal, financial, automotive and academic communities -- all groups
- that are using or considering SGML to improve the ways they manage,
- analyze, interchange and deliver information.
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- By participating in SGML '92, you will have the opportunity to:
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- - hear from leaders in the field
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- - share integration experience and application details with
- fellow practitioners
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- - examine the products (DTDs, documentation, output specifications
- and end products) of other SGML applications
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- - participate in working groups
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- - view much of the published literature on SGML, and have
- the opportunity to examine and buy books, manuals,
- tutorial guides, etc
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- The 1992 conference will have two main 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.
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- Based on current interest and proposed topics, SGML '92 promises
- to continue the conference series' tradition of highly interesting,
- stimulating, challenging presentations, workshop topics, case studies
- and poster sessions. We are looking for contributions from all corners
- of the SGML world. We want reports from industry activities, from
- governmental or organizational initiatives, from user groups, from
- users. We're looking for informed opinion and opinionated information,
- and anything in between.
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- In addition, we're looking for participants. People who will
- pose questions, propose solutions, and argue late into the night.
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- WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
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- You should attend SGML '92 if you have a good understanding of SGML
- and are eager to explore the full range of SGML applications today.
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- Alternatively, if you are a person who sends others to such events, and
- if you send your backroom engineers and wizards to only one conference
- a year, this should be the one. (Also: They should present papers,
- conduct poster sessions, get on the program.)
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- If you are an SGML novice plan to attend the Just Enough Tutorial,
- Sunday Oct 25 from 1 to 4 pm. The tutorial provides a basic overview
- on SGML for those who are just beginning to understand SGML and can
- serve as a good review for those who are out of practice.
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- It is urged that all beginners attend the tutorial to maximize
- their participation in the SGML Conference.
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- We're looking for speakers and topics and speakers to address
- a wide variety of topics. If you're able to present in one of the
- following areas (or an area you'd like to suggest), please send a brief
- abstract:
- by August 10, 1992 (to be included in the brochure)
- by September 30 (to be included in the program)
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- via email to yuri@sq.com or
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- to Joy Blake,
- Graphic Communications Association
- 100 Dangerfield Road
- Alexandria VA 22314 USA
- PHONE: +1 703 519-8162
- FAX: +1 703 548-2867.
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- SUGGESTED TOPICS/TOPIC AREAS:
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- Document Management for SGML
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- DTD Development Styles
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- HyTime: Hypertext and Multimedia
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- Special Uses of SGML
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- Math and Equations in SGML
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- Structures to Support Overlapping Elements?
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- Modular and Reusable DTDs
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- Document Conversion
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- When and How Does SHORTREF Make Sense?
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- Output Specifications
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- News from the Front: the SGML Review,
- DSSSL, Conformance Testing, Registration
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- SDIF: The Packaging of SGML
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- The Care & Feeding of Architectural Forms
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- SGML and Databases
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- Vendor Briefings
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- Good or Bad SGML Experiences
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- Systems/Software Integration
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- Major Public Applications and Initiatives: OSF, ATA/AIA, CFCM,
- Davenport, CALS Update (Electronic Review and Change Packages)
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- User Application Case Studies
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- TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE:
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- Registration forms are available from the GCA at the address/
- fax number above. Conference fees are:
- Just Enough Tutorial: GCA Member $40, Nonmember $75.
- SGML '92 Conference: GCA Member $560, Nonmember $765.
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- There will be an educational/academic discounted fee of $459.
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- ___________________________________________________________________
- Yuri Rubinsky (416) 239-4801
- President, SoftQuad Inc. (800) 387-2777 (from U.S. only)
- Chair, SGML '92 uucp: {uunet,utzoo}!sq!yuri
- Suite 810 56 Aberfoyle Crescent Internet: yuri@sq.com
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada M8X 2W4 Fax: (416) 239-7105
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