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- The SGML SIGHYPER (HYTIME Interest Group)
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- Copyright 1992, Apple Computer, Inc.
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- THE SGML [1] USERS' GROUP SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON HYPERTEXT AND MULTIMEDIA
- (SGML SIGHYPER) is different from all other groups whose focus is hypertext
- and multimedia theory, technology, and creativity. The sole interest of SGML
- SIGhyper is the promulgation of information about the ISO/IEC "HyTime"
- Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (ISO/IEC International Standard
- 10744 [2]), as a worldwide standard technical framework for integrated open
- hypermedia, and in the applications of HyTime, including the ISO/IEC "SMDL"
- Standard Music Description Language (ISO/IEC Committee Draft 10743). We hope
- that the publishing, documentation, entertainment, education, and information
- processing industries will evaluate HyTime as an appropriate standard toward
- which they all can migrate in an orderly and profitable fashion. The intent is
- not to inhibit competition; quite the contrary, it is to help to create a new
- arena for competition, and to help to train and equip the players. Now that
- HyTime has become an officail international standard, we expect that SIGhyper
- will serve as both a matchmaker and an information warehouse for customers and
- vendors in the hyper/multimedia market.
-
- SGML SIGhyper has been created to provide a way for those who want a flexible
- and open technical framework for hypermedia publishing to contribute to the
- process of creating that framework. Your membership in SGML SIGhyper will
- connect you as directly as possible with the ISO [3] process, so that your
- requirements for integrated open hypermedia can be known publicly and met in
- the course of a public process, and so that you will be informed about per-
- tinent developments regarding technologies relevant to the creation, mainte-
- nance, and processing of hypermedia documents represented in SGML. SGML
- SIGhyper's parent organization is the international SGML Users' Group, [4]
- which is privileged to send limited delegations to ISO meetings where SGML-
- based standards such as HyTime are developed.
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- Members of SGML SIGhyper:
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- * receive the "SGML SIGhyper Newsletter," which keeps them abreast of
- current technical information about the emerging applications of HyTime
- and other developments.
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- * know who is working in the field, and how to get in touch with them.
- Members receive the "SGML SIGhyper Directory," which lists all SGML
- SIGhyper members who elect to be listed in it.
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- * are able to inform other members about matters of general interest,
- through written contributions to the "SGML SIGhyper Newsletter," and by
- direct mail to the members.
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- * are aware of the availability of exemplary new HyTime documents, document
- type definitions, system designs, and software, when they first become
- available.
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- * are represented at ISO HyTime meetings.
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- CURRENT MEMBERS OF SGML SIGHYPER are employed by and/or represent the
- following organizations: Aarhus University, American Chemical Society, Ameri-
- can National Standards Institute, Apple Computer, Inc., Aquidneck Data
- Company, ArborText, Inc., Asea Brown Boveri AB, Atlantic Research Corporation,
- AT&T Bell Laboratories, Audre, Inc., Australian Taxation Office, Austrian
- Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Bellcore, Blind 'Dillo
- Records, Booz-Allen, B.S.J. Technologies, Inc., Bull HN Information Systems
- Italia S.p.A., California State University at Long Beach, Canon Inc., CITRI,
- Clemson University, Commission of the European Communities, CRA, Concord
- Research Associates, Inc., Database Publishing Systems Ltd., Datalogics,
- Incorporated, DATAMONT S.p.A. (Gruppo Ferruzzi), Digital Equipment Corpora-
- tion, Dimensional Media Systems, Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Eastman Kodak Com-
- pany, EJV Partners, L.P., Electronic Book Technologies, European Organization
- for Nuclear Research (CERN), Fabritius A/S, Florida State University, Fujitsu
- International Engineering Limited, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, G. D. Searle
- & Company, General Electric Corporate Research & Development, Glaxo Canada,
- Incorporated, GRAME, Graphic Communications Association, Graphire Corporation,
- Group for the Advancement of Fundamental Research in Music, Grumman Melbourne
- Systems, HaL Computer Systems, Inc., Hatfield Polytechnic, Heinz Heise Verlag
- GmbH & Co KG, Hewlett Packard, Hewlett-Packard, Hyperview Systems, Inc., IBM
- Corporation, IBM-France, Industrial Technology Institute, InfoDesign Corpora-
- tion, Inform II -- Microfor, Information Navigation, Institute of Control Sci-
- ence, Intel Corporation, Intergraphics Associates, Interleaf U.K., Ltd.,
- International Computer Music Association, KAIST, Korea Advanced Institute of
- Science and Technology, Kwangwoon University, L. Taylor, Consultant, Linkoping
- University, Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc., Logicon Eagle Technology,
- Los Angeles County & USC Medical Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
- ogy, McGraw-Hill, Inc., Mead Data Central, Media Learning Systems, Inc., Memex
- Information Systems Ltd., Meta-Connections, Microstar Software Ltd.,
- MID/Information Logistics Group GmbH, MITRE Corporation, Moody's Investors
- Service, MusicArt, Mutual of America, Naggum Software, National Computer
- Board, National Institute of Standards & Technology, NCR Corporation, Nomura
- Research Institute, Ltd., NTERGAID, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office Com-
- puting Group, Open Software Foundation, Optical Publishing Association,
- O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., OWL International, Inc., Paramax Systems Group,
- PIRA International, Pratt & Whitney, Ricoh Corporation, Rohm and Haas Company,
- Ron Gorow Music, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Samsom Uitgeverij,
- Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science, Sema Software Technology, SGML
- Forum, Siemens Gammasonics, Inc., Silicon Graphics, Inc., SoftQuad, Inc.,
- Software Systems, Solutions By Design, Inc., Sony Corporation of America, Sony
- Electronic Publishing Company, Spencer W. Allen Computer Consulting Services,
- Springer-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, State University of New York at Binghamton,
- Stockholm Institute of Education, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Technical
- Arts Group, Technical Methods, Inc., TechnoTeacher, Inc., Teix, Sistemas de
- Informacion Estrategica, S. A. de C. V., Teleprint Corporation, Telub Inforum
- A. B., Teradata Corporation, Tetrasys, The Electronic Frontier Foundation,
- Inc., The Fulcrum Consulting Group, The HyperMedia Group, The Turing Insti-
- tute, TNO-Building Research, Union Bank of Switzerland, University of British
- Columbia, University of Calgary, University of California at Berkeley, Univer-
- sity of California, San Diego, University of Delaware, University of Exeter,
- University of Florida, University of Illinois, University of Kent, University
- of Massachusetts--Lowell, University of Surrey, Unix System Laboratories,
- Inc., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech),
- Washington University School of Medicine, Waynesburg College, Wolters Kluwer
- Academic Publishers, and Xanadu Operating Company.
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- MEMBERSHIP IN THE SGML USERS' GROUP.
- It is not required that you join the SGML Users' Group, but it's probably a
- good idea. The benefits of membership in the SGML Users' Group include reduced
- rates at events organized by the users' group, a copy of each issue of the
- "Bulletin" and "Newsletter," copies of the standards and technical reports at
- special prices, discounts on certain relevant books, and a 10% discount
- for the Markup conferences. To join the SGML Users' Group, you should send
- your name, affiliation, position in your institution or company, mailing
- address, telephone and/or facsimile numbers, telex and/or internet and/or other
- electronic mailing address(es), a signed letter of intent to join, and your
- annual membership dues of either US $75 or Lb 40 for an individual, or US $150
- or Lb 80 for a corporation, to SGML Users'Group, Stephen G. Downie,
- Secretary, c/o Softquad Inc., 56 Aberfoyle Cres., Suite 810, Toronto, Ontario,
- CANADA M8X 2W4 (voice: +1 416 239 4801; fax: +1 416 239 7105).
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- THE GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION (GCA).
- SGML SIGhyper recognizes the crucial role that the GCA has played and
- continues to play in the development of the HyTime standard. As ANSI X3V1.8M
- Secretariat, the GCA provides essential sponsorship for meetings and
- mailings in support of that committee's work. We plan to continue to support
- HyTime technical sessions at GCA-sponsored conferences, such as "TechDoc,"
- "SGML," "Expert Communication," etc.
- In addition, due to the rising popularity and use of HyTime, the GCA is now
- planning a series of conferences devoted solely to HyTime. For the foresee-
- able future, SGML SIGhyper meetings will take place during GCA-sponsored
- conferences (the organizational meeting took place at TechDoc '91, in Seattle,
- Washington, USA in August, 1991). For information, contact Mr. Marion L.
- Elledge, Vice President, Information Technologies, Graphic Communications
- Association, 100 Daingerfield Road, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA (voice: +1 703
- 519 8160; Telex: 510-600-0899; fax: +1 703 548 2867).
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- ISO AND ANSI HYTIME MEETINGS.
- The SGML Users' Group sends delegations to these meetings. For more
- information, contact Steven R. Newcomb, Chairman, SGML SIGhyper, c/o
- TechnoTeacher, Inc., 1810 High Road, Tallahassee, FL 32303-4408 USA (voice: +1
- 904 422 3574; fax: +1 904 386 2562; Internet: srn@cmr.fsu.edu.)
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- SGML SIGHYPER ON LINE.
- Thanks to the efforts of Erik Naggum (the Vice Chairman of SGML SIGhyper) and
- the University of Oslo, some SGML SIGhyper documents and general information
- are already available via anonymous FTP from ftp.ifi.uio.no ([129.240.88.1]) in
- the directory "SIGhyper." All new documents are announced in the USENET group
- comp.text.sgml as they become available. If (and only if) FTP service can't
- be used, members may request the document via the internet from
- SIGhyper-request@ifi.uio.no. An alternative source node for SGML SIGhyper
- on-line documents is at Florida State University; the address is
- mailer.cc.fsu.edu (128.186.6.103); the directory is pub/sgml.
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- At both FTP nodes, there is also a public-domain SGML parser in the form of
- both C source code (for either Unix or MS-DOS) and MS-DOS executables. Known
- as "ARC SGML," the parser comes with absolutely no warranties of any kind
- whatsoever. SGML SIGhyper will send (with absolutely no warranties, guaran-
- tees, or anything else, for that matter) copies of ARC SGML in the following
- formats for the following prices to the following addresses. (You may be able
- to get lower prices by buying directly from the SGML Users' Group.)
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- U.S. addresses non-U.S. addresses
- IBM (MS-DOS) 3.5" HD US $ 27.75 US $ 30.00
- IBM (MS-DOS) 5.25" HD US $ 34.21 US $ 38.00
- UNIX TAR, 1/4" cartridge US $ 59.90 US $ 72.00
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- Copies of ISO 10744 (HyTime) are currently only available from your country's
- ISO member body. Copies of CD 10743 (SMDL) are available from SGML SIGhyper,
- as well as from the GCA, and your country's ISO member body. The HyTime and
- SMDL standards documents are NOT available in electronic form. If you wish to
- order this document from SGML SIGhyper, the prices are as follows:
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- ISO Standards base N. America non-N. America
- price postage air postage FL tax
- CD 10743 (SMDL) 11.96 1.44 5.50 0.84
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- Non-members of SGML SIGhyper should double the base prices indicated above.
- Orders may accompany membership applications. Please make your check in U.S.
- funds payable to "SGML SIGhyper," and mail it to: Chris W. Higgins, Treasurer,
- SGML SIGhyper, c/o TechnoTeacher, Inc., 1810 High Road, Tallahassee, Florida
- 32303-4408 USA. (Voice: +1 904 422 3574. Fax: +1 904 386 2562. Internet:
- chris@cmr.fsu.edu)
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- Note: You will need the HyTime document in order to understand the SMDL docu-
- ment. Please be informed that the SMDL document has not been revised to
- reflect the changes in the HyTime IS, so there is some inconsistency between
- the two documents.
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- FOOTNOTES
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- 1. SGML stands for ``Standard Generalized Markup Language," an international
- standard (ISO 8879-1986) metalanguage for the expression of the structure
- of document types and for tagging the structural elements of document
- instances conforming to any particular document type. SGML has been
- adopted by many of the world's largest publishers and by many countries,
- including the US and the EC.
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- 2. HyTime became an ISO International Standard in April, 1992.
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- 3. "ISO stands for "International Organisation for Standardization," an
- organization whose members are the national standards-making bodies of
- the participating countries.
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- 4. The SGML Users' Group is an international group entirely devoted to the
- promotion and exchange of information about the ISO SGML standard (Stan-
- dard Generalized Markup Language; ISO 8879-1986).
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- Application for Membership in SGML SIGhyper (91/09/24)
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- Please mark with an X whichever of the above items you DO NOT wish to have
- printed in the SGML SIGhyper Directory.
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- Please feel free to attach any self-describing information you wish to have
- printed in the SGML SIGhyper Directory. Organizations may use up to six lines
- at no extra charge; individuals may use up to three lines. In case the infor-
- mation does not fit within the space allocated for your type of membership,
- please also indicate whether you wish us to edit it, or print it verbatim and
- bill you for any extra lines. (Advertising space in the Directory is also
- available by the page.)
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- A membership year begins on August 1 and ends on July 31. Membership dues are
- payable annually, and they should be received before August 1. If your dues
- are received after September 1, you may miss some mailings, and you may not be
- listed in the SGML SIGhyper Directory.
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- All members receive the SGML SIGhyper Directory annually.
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- All current members of record receive all SGML SIGhyper Newsletter issues at
- their time of original publication. Back issues are available to members at
- extra charge. Written contributions to the Newsletter are welcome any time.
- SGML SIGhyper reserves the right to refuse or edit all written contributions.
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- Organizations may list up to two persons in addition to the organization's own
- listing. Each of the two persons will receive all mailings, and there may be
- up to three listings in the Directory altogether: one for each of the two per-
- sons, and one for the organization itself. Therefore, organizations may wish
- to submit three of these forms with each membership.
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- Type of membership Annual Dues for North Dues for Addressees Outside
- American Addressees North America
- Organization US $ 150.00 US $ 170.00
- Individual US $ 75.00 US $ 95.00
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- Please make your check in U.S. funds payable to "SGML SIGhyper," and mail it
- with your application to: Chris W. Higgins, Treasurer, SGML SIGhyper, c/o
- TechnoTeacher, Inc., 1810 High Road, Tallahassee, Florida 32303-4408 USA.
- (Voice: +1 904 422 3574. Fax: +1 904 386 2562. Internet: chris@cmr.fsu.edu).
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- Worldwide Multimedia
- Standards & Assns.
- Standards
- 10-JUNE-1992
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