Plenaries

Information Management Consulting

Norman Scharpf

President

Graphic Communications Association, USA

Biographical information:

Norman W. Scharpf

Norman Scharpf, President of Graphic Communications Association, earned his Bachelor's degree in Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh. After gaining experience in the public accounting field, he joined IBM where his sales territory included printing firms. His work with one of these firms led to his appointment in 1967 as the first Staff Director of Graphic Communications Association (GCA), then known as the Computer Section of PIA.

The group's efforts in computer composition led rapidly to an interest in generic markup of text databases. Under Mr. Scharpf's leadership, this interest expanded to recommend and support national and international work in development of standard markup approaches that ultimately led to the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). Mr. Scharpf is a PIA Gutenberg Award recipient for his efforts in SGML. Mr. Scharpf now leads an organization of some 300 member firms worldwide covering technological advances in both print media and information technologies.

California

Goldfarb, Charles F.

Saratoga

Database Publishing Systems Ltd

Charles F. Goldfarb

Principal

Information Management Consulting, 13075 Paramount Court
Saratoga California USA 95070 +1 (408) 867-5553
email: Charles@SGMLsource.com

Biographical information:

Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb

Dr. Goldfarb invented the SGML language in 1974 and later led the team that developed it into the International Standard on which both HTML and XML are based. He serves as Editor of the Standard (ISO 8879) and as a consultant to developers of SGML and XML applications and products.

While at IBM Dr. Goldfarb led the project that invented SGML's precursor, GML, in 1969. He designed and coded the first and -- with its derivatives, notably SGMLS -- the most widely-used SGML parser, "ARCSGML". He also helped develop IBM's multi-site multi-national GML (now SGML) publishing system, producing 11 million master pages, and served as a market planner for information systems products.

He has been profiled in Forbes Magazine and others, and the Seybold Report cited his "SGML Handbook" as the definitive reference on SGML. He edits Prentice-Hall's "Charles F. Goldfarb Series on Open Information Management" and co-authored the "SGML Buyer's Guide" and the forthcoming "XML Handbook".

Dr. Goldfarb holds the first GCA International SGML Award and the PIA Gutenberg Award. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Columbia College.

A panel of industry experts from around the world make their predictions about how SGML, and its related standards and technologies, will be used in the next 3-5 years.

Bosworth. - Microsoft's vision for XML
Cacioppo. - The Economics of Collaborative Authoring and Distribution
Bosak. - XML: The Universal Publishing Format
Arnold. - Historical Overview

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Plenary - '...to new practices'

Chair

Gennusa, Pamela

Database Publishing Systems Ltd

Pamela Gennusa

Managing Director

Database Publishing Systems Ltd, United Kingdom

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Closing keynote plenary

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Gennusa, Pamela

Pamela Gennusa

Managing Director

Database Publishing Systems Ltd, United Kingdom

Bray. - What isn't a document?

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STEP/SGML harmonisation

Chair

RivCom

Rivers-Moore, Daniel

Daniel Rivers-Moore

Director of New Technologies

RivCom, United Kingdom

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STEP/SGML harmonisation - what is it and why is it important?

Rivers-Moore. - Panel Presentation

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Current reality and future perspective

Harvey. - How STEP/SGML and XML/EDI Initiatives Will Impact Future Development of IETMs.
Kostia. - Integrating product model and the documentation: A practical approach

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SGML/STEP harmonization - data architecture or product documentation?

Thompson. - XML-Data for Interchange Definition
Reynolds. - Purpose
Shaw. - STEP/SGML harmonization - Data Architecture or Product Documentation?

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Data modelling and schemas

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Update on standards work

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DE LA SELLE, Benoit

Jouy en Josas

OmniMark Technologies

Benoit DE LA SELLE

Vice President, European Operations

OmniMark Technologies, 3 bis, rue du Petit Robinson
Jouy en Josas France 78353 +33 1 30 70 62 00 +33 1 30 70 65 66
email: bdelaselle@europe.omnimark.com http://www.omnimark.com

Biographical information:

Benoit de La Selle

Benoit de La Selle brings over 14 years' sales experience to OmniMark Technologies and directs the Company's European operations from its headquarters in Paris, France. He manages all aspects of the business including delivery of education, professional services, and license sales for Europe. He is a graduate in Economics from the University of Orléans and a graduate of Business Administration from the Ecole d'Administration des Affaires, in France.

Chahuneau. - SGML & schemas: from SGML DTDs to XML-DATA.
Singer. - W3C's Resource Description Framework Schemas: DTDs for the 21st Century
Wood. - The Web Document API
Robie. - Using the DOM as an XML/HTML repository API

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Example applications

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Canada

SoftQuad Inc.

Wood, Lauren

Lauren Wood

Technical Project Manager

SoftQuad Inc., Canada

Ramalho. - Beyond DTDs: constraining data content
Jones. - Introduction
Weichel. - Strategies for implementing SGML/XML as a glue layer in engineering processes

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Style is not a 4-letter word

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Adler, Sharon

Inso Corporation

Sharon Adler

Senior Product Manager, Publishing Tools

Inso Corporation, USA

Biographical information:

Sharon Adler

Sharon Adler is a Senior Product Manager of the Publishing Tools for Inso Corporation Electronic Publishing Solutions in Providence, Rhode Island. Prior to this, she was Principal Applications Consultant for Electronic Book Technologies, now Inso Corporation. In this capacity, she worked with customers to design and develop SGML projects, primarily converting word processing documents into SGML and other applications for style sheet definition and DTD design.

From 1985-1992, Sharon held several key positions with IBM Corporation in Boulder, Colorado. She was the Co-architect for the Advanced Workstation SGML editor, product planner for the Publishing Systems Business Unit, and product planner for IBM mainframe printing and publishing products, including the Document Composition Facility (DCF). She was the Vice-Chairman of ANSI Committee X3J6.1 -- the original committee developing SGML and is currently a member of X3V1.8 and ISO/IEC/SC18/WG8 -- the ISO committee developing SGML, DSSSL, HyTime, etc.

Sharon is the chairman and project editor a ISO/IEC 10179, Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL), the international standard defining a Style Language and Transformation Language for SGML documents. This standard was published in April, 1996.

Berglund. - Style Sheets: I18N aspectsstyle sheet style i18n internationalization scripts languages XSL DSSSL
Deach. - Comparing Styling in Layout-driven & Content-driven Documents
Grosso. - Style Concepts
Lilley. - Style is not a 4-letter word
Paris. - Stylesheet Driven SGML Transformation
Nolan. - Introduction

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Management issues

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Intellectual property rights and legal issues

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Arnold, Nick

OECD

Nick Arnold

Head, Production and Development Units, Directorate for Public Affairs and Communications

OECD, France

Neylon. - Intellectual Property in a Fragmented World
Higgins. - Introduction

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Case studies

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Arnold, Nick

OECD

Nick Arnold

Head, Production and Development Units, Directorate for Public Affairs and Communications

OECD, France

Hack. - Task definition
Ursinus. - Introducing the SGML Technology at the Publishing Houses of Wolters Kluwer Hungary

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Management issues - theory

Chair

Arnold, Nick

OECD

Nick Arnold

Head, Production and Development Units, Directorate for Public Affairs and Communications

OECD, France

Moore. - Information Management - Who gets the benefitsbenefits component management
Vaughan. - High Level Architectures of Document-Object Publishing Systems
Ziener. - Overview

benefits

component

management

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Management issues - practice

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Allette Systems

Australia

Carr, Nick
NSW
Sydney

Nick Carr

General Manager

Allette Systems, Level 10
91 York Street
Sydney NSW Australia 2000 02 9262 4777
email: ncc@allette.com.au

Biographical information:

Nick Carr

Nick Carr is a founder and General Manager of Allette Systems, an SGML integrator and developer. Allette Systems has been involved in the design, implementation and training of SGML systems for governments and commercial legal publishers in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong.

Macken. - The WISDOM of working on the Web
Ksiezyk. - Plato, SGML and revolution
Bauwens. - Introduction
Ju. - An SGML-based Office Document Exchange and Managementdocument exchange document management

document exchange

document management

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Management assessment: The impact of XML

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Robin Tomlin

Executive Director

SGML Open, 108 Manningham Drive
Madison Alabama USA 35758 1 205 772 2355 1 205 772 2307
email: tomlin@sgmlopen.org

Biographical information:

Robin Tomlin

Robin Tomlin is the Executive Director of OASIS (formerly SGML Open), the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. In her current capacity, Robin is responsible for the overall leadership of the consortium and management of the business operation.

Most recently, Robin was an Executive Manager of Marketing for the Intergraph Corporation. Her responsibilities included product and industry marketing, strategic third party relationship management and business development for corporate document management technology.

Prior to Intergraph, Robin was the Director of Marketing for Datalogics, Inc. and established the SGML consulting services group for the company. Before joining Datalogics, Robin worked for Navy Publishing and Printing Service where she managed publishing systems supporting the CALS initiative.

Robin has been involved in the publishing industry for the past 15 years and much of that time has been dedicated to the understanding, promotion and implementation of SGML. She has been involved since 1989 in conference events and tutorials for the Graphic Communcations Association (GCA) and the National Security Industrial Association (NSIA). Additionally, she has served on the (then) SGML Open Board of Directors as secretary/treasurer.

Robin holds a BS degree from James Madison University.

Bartlett. - Do you Need XML? A Checklist...
Maziarka. - XML is not just another name for SGML. XML is the vehicle to deploy structured data systems throughout an organization
Elandalo. - Most Frequently asked business questions about XML from current or prospective SGML users

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Analyst assessment: the future of XML and SGML

Chair

SGML Open

Tomlin, Robin

Document Software Strategies Group
Laplante, Mary Fletcher

Robin Tomlin

Executive Director

SGML Open, USA

Massachusetts

Norwell

Mary Fletcher Laplante

Director

Document Software Strategies Group, CAP Ventures, Inc.
Norwell Massachusetts USA +1 617 871 9000 ext 184
email: mary_laplante@capv.com

Biographical information:

Mary Fletcher Laplante

Mary Fletcher Laplante is a Director in the Document Software Strategies Group at CAP Ventures, Inc., a market research and strategic consulting company that covers the document computing technologies market and the electronic publishing and printing industries.

Ms. Laplante's career includes fifteen years of experience in the high-end electronic publishing industry. From November 1993 through January 1996, she was the Executive Director of SGML Open, the international consortium of suppliers whose products and services support SGML (ISO 8879: Standard Generalized Markup Language). Prior to joining SGML Open, she developed and managed her own consulting practice providing marketing and technical expertise in publishing-related applications and technologies. She has held executive and senior positions at several publishing software companies; she was President and Chief Operating Officer for Cygnet Publishing Technologies, Incorporated; Vice President of Marketing for Avalanche Development Company; and Vice President and Senior Product Manager at Scribe Systems, Inc. In the mid-1980's, she worked at Datalogics Inc. as a technical writer and trainer.

Ms. Laplante holds a B.A. in English from Washington and Jefferson College and an M.A. in English from the University of Connecticut.

Mark Walter

Editor, Consultant

Seybold Publications, 428 East Baltimore Pike
Media Pennsylvania USA 19063 (610) 565-2480, ext. 126
email: mwalter@seyboldpubs.com

Biographical information:

Mark Walter

As a writer, editor and consultant, Mark Walter has been actively involved with the SGML technology market since 1987, when he joined Seybold Publications, a leading provider of publishing technology information, based in Media, Pennsylvania. Mark is currently editor of the Seybold Report on Internet Publishing, a monthly newsletter that tracks technology changes that affect online publishing. In that role he has been a vocal supporter of XML and its related initiatives, and recently he helped start XML.com, a Web site of XML-related resources.

Mark also serves as a consultant in the Seybold Consulting Group, which provides strategic planning and equipment analysis services to both vendors and end users in publishing and prepress markets. His specialties is document/content management, including editorial and production systems for both print and online publishing operations. Recent clients include R. R. Donnelley, the Foundation Center, Merck, and the American Medical Association.

SGML Technologies Limited

Stern, Yves

TechnoForum

Yves Stern

Director

TechnoForum, France

Recent changes in the information market are creating new opportunities for web technologists, consumers and providers. Some predictions indicate that all areas of information processing will soon be affected by the new XML standard. The publicity and interest in XML is growing daily and analysts from around the world are following the standard and reporting weekly on its progress. A panel of those analysts will report on where they see SGML, HTML and XML in the market, the positioning of each with respect to tools and user requirements, and the overall direction for these standards moving forward in the next 6-12 months.

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Multi-lingual applications

Chair

Ericsson Utvecklings AB

Germany

Ling, Per-Åke

Per-Åke Ling

Ericsson Utvecklings AB, Germany

Harcourt. - Automating Language Translation Requires Document Management, Workflow, and Application Tools
Catteau. - The Addition of a Multilingual Component to An Existing Document Processing System
Busse. - Analysing SGML Documents linguistically
Campbell. - Building an SGML-based Publishing Environment

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Future Directions in SGML and XML

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Future Directions in SGML and XML

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London

Smith, Joan M

Information Management Consulting

Joan M Smith

Chairman

SGML Technologies Limited, London United Kingdom

Biographical information:

Joan M Smith

For many years Joan Smith led United Kingdom input to the ISO standardization of SGML and related standards and was the founding President of the International SGML Users' Group. She devoted much time to the promotion of SGML and later CALS, giving many tutorials and presentations at international conferences not only in Europe and the United States, but also in Australia. Author of numerous papers and articles on standards, she wrote books on SGML and CALS.

She is now Chairman of the SGML Technologies Group of companies, based in London, Brussels, and Luxembourg. A Fellow of the British Computer Society, she is also a Member of the Institute of Directors.

Goldfarb, Charles F

Charles F Goldfarb

Principal

Information Management Consulting, USA

Peterson, Dave

SGMLworks!

Text Structure Consulting, Inc.

Dave Peterson

Principal

SGMLworks!, USA

California

Castro Valley

Price, Lynne A.

Lynne A. Price

President

Text Structure Consulting, Inc., 17225 San Franciscan Dr.
Castro Valley California USA 94552-1617 1 510 583-1505
email: lprice@txstruct.com http://www.txstruct.com

Biographical information:

Lynne A. Price

Lynne Price is an independent consultant who has been involved in SGML since 1985. She is an active participant in the international SGML standards committee (ISO/IEC JTC1/ SC18/WG8) and its U.S. counterpart (NCITS V1, formerly X3V1) and is the editor of ISO/IEC 13673, the standard on Conformance Testing of SGML Systems. For several years, she was a member of the development team for Adobe's FrameMaker+SGML and left Adobe in February, 1996 to start Text Structure Consulting, Inc. Her interests in structured documentation extend to her graduate school work. In 1978, she completed a Ph.D. in computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, writing a dissertation titled "Representing Text Structure for Automatic Processing."

Bosak, Jon

Jon Bosak

Online Information Technology Architect, Sun Microsystems and Chairman, W3C XML Working Group

, USA

This session is organized by the International SGML Users' Group (ISUG) and the International Standards Organization Document Description Languages Working Group (ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4). It is open to all conference delegates. This session will bring you up to date on both ISO standards and W3C recommendations. Panelists will present the most recent changes in ISO 8879, the International Standard for SGML and the directions in which the revision of the standard is heading. Panel members will also present the current state of work on XML, XLL, and XSL. The presentations will be followed by time for questions and answers.

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Linking & hyperlinking

Chair

Bergström, Peter

EuroSTEP

Sweden

Peter Bergström

Senior Consultant, SGML

EuroSTEP, Sweden

Angerstein. - Why Your Document Management System Should Care About Hyperlinks
Bradley. - Hypertext Linking with HTML, SGML and XML - technologies and techniques
Gutentag. - The Background
Gelb. - Introduction

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Content management

Chair

Steve Brown

InfoObjects Inc., 933 N. Northlake Way
Seattle Washington USA 98103

Biographical information:

Steve Brown

Steve Brown is president of InfoObjects Inc. He began his career in publishing in 1967 with the founding of Datalogics of Chicago. During the next 25 years his company grew to be a major industry supplier of systems that applied database and SGML technology to batch publishing.

In 1992, Steve sold Datalogics to Frame Technology and became their VP of Corporate Product Strategy. In that position, he directed their entry into the document management market.

When Adobe bought Frame in 1995, he was assigned the responsibility of running the Datalogics and document management operations and preparing them for sale.

Steve retired in early 1996. He lives on a houseboat in Seattle, travels and attends conferences and courses. He occasionally consults in publishing and document management.

Steve has a BS degree in mathematics from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and is a past and current member of the GCA Board.

Lecluse. - SGML Databases & Content Management for the Web
Beyer. - Development of SGML/XML Middleware ComponentMiddleware
Skinner. - Achieving Individualized, Timely Web Delivery
Kennedy. - Early SGML Design

Middleware

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Graphics

Chair

Germany

IsoDraw

Weidenbrück, Dieter

Dieter Weidenbrück

Chief Executive Officer

IsoDraw, Germany

Herlitz. - Introduction
Weidenbr. - Preparing intelligent graphics for interactive catalogs
Peetoom. -telecommunication Pragmatic SGML-solutions in a telecommunications organization
Yang. - Application Solution for the Graphic Arts Industry

telecommunication

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SGML/XML in healthcare information exchange standards

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SGML/XML in healthcare information exchange standards

Chair

Alschuler, Liora

The Word Electric

National Research Council

Liora Alschuler

Consultant

The Word Electric, USA

HL7 SGML/XML SIG

Sokolowski, Rachael

Rachael Sokolowski

CoChair

HL7 SGML/XML SIG,

Italy

Rossi Mori, Angelo

Angelo Rossi Mori

Head of the Unit of Medical Informatics

National Research Council, Institute for Biomedical Technologies Italy

Dudeck, Joachim

Justis-Liebig-Universitaet

Joachim Dudeck

Professor

Justis-Liebig-Universitaet, Institut fuer Medizinische Informatik

Alshuler. - SGML/XML in healthcare information exchange standards

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Microdocuments

Chair

Canada

Crane Softwrights Ltd.

Holman, G. Ken

Kars

Ontario

G. Ken Holman

Chief Technology Officer

Crane Softwrights Ltd., 1605 Mardick Court
Kars Ontario Canada K0A-2E0 1 613 489-0999 1 613 489-0995
email: gkholman@canadamail.com

Biographical information:

G. Ken Holman

Mr. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a Canadian corporation offering OmniMark programming, DSSSL and XSL language training, and general SGML and XML related computer systems analysis services to international customers. Mr. Holman is the current Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, and has often been a speaker at related conferences. Formerly, Mr. Holman spent over 13 years at Microstar Software Ltd.

Baker. - Designing Microdocument Architecture(TM) systems
Peterson. - Microdocs, Birthrights, and Pottage Messes

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HyTime at work

Chair

Corkern, Carla

Isogen

CSC Computer Sciences Ltd
Chorley
Parker, Neil

Carla Corkern

President

Isogen, USA

Biographical information:

Carla Corkern

Carla Corkern is President of ISOGEN INTERNATIONAL CORP, an SGML Consulting, Training and Product Resell Company. Carla received a BS of Technical Communications from Louisiana Tech University in 1989 and is currently at work on a Master Degree at SMU. Carla is this year's cochair of the 1998 International HyTime conference and often writes and speaks on SGML and HyTime.

Her professional career includes stints at Intergraph, Tandy Inc., and Ericsson Network Systems where she learned first hand the heart break and triumph of SGML User Case Studies. Carla left Ericsson in 92 to assume the Director of SGML Consulting Services at Insight Data Systems, after IDS's acquistion by Highland Digital, Carla became Director of Professional Services. In 1994, Carla Corkern and other employees of Highland Digital's Highland Consulting division executed an employee purchase of the division which became ISOGEN INTERNATIONAL CORP.

Goldfarb. - SGML Extended Facilities and HyTime Two
Kimber. - Introduction
Goto. - An Implementation design of XLL as a subset of HyTime
Biezunski. - Managing information networks with Topic Maps
Newcomb. - Combining Architectures to Lower the Lifecycle Cost of Interactive Documents with Substantive Behaviours

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EDI & E Commerce

Chair

Burman, Linda

Canada

L.A.Burman Associates

Ontario

Toronto

Linda Burman

Principal

L.A.Burman Associates, 23 Hambly Drive Suite 200
Toronto Ontario Canada ME4 4R5 416 699 7198
email: linda@interlog.com

Biographical information:

Linda Burman

Linda Burman is the president of L. A. Burman Associates, a consulting company that provides services to clients in areas including industry and market analysis, strategic market planning, business alliance development, market and competitive research, pricing and positioning, XML tools training, journalistic coverage and marketing program development. It has also performed due diligence work for companies seeking to make an investment.

Prior to founding her own company, Ms Burman was Director of Worldwide Marketing at SoftQuad International and prior to that, the Publishing Evangelist at Apple Computer. Beginning her computer career as a Systems Engineer at Datapoint Corporation, she brought a strong technical background to her later positions in business management and product marketing at companies like MICOM-Interlan and Bitstream. Trained originally as an educator, Ms Burman also transferred her years of experience as an instructor to her new industry.

Ms. Burman is recognized as an industry expert and often speaks at conferences such as the Seybold Seminars, Documation, SGML & XML conferences. L.A. Burman Associates is an active member of OASIS. She previously chaired the Marketing Research Committee of SGMLOpen and also served as a founding member of the Advisory Board for Documation.

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The role of documentation in electronic commerce

Young. - Electronic Information Commerce
Hajagos. - XML and Electronic Commerce: But What About Documents?

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The role of SGML and XML in the interchange of commercial data

Bryan. - Introduction
Elsaleh. - General presentation of the EDIAUDIT tool
Vijghen. - Cost-Effective EDI Using XML?
Guide. - Guidelines for using XML for Electronic Data Interchange

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Technical documentation case studies

Chair