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Third GCA International HyTime Conference |
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| August 20 - 21, 1996 |
| Westin Hotel |
| Seattle, Washington, USA |
PROGRAM |
Tuesday, August 20 start time duration ------------------ ---------- -------- (Registration) 8:00 am n/a |
| Welcome |
9:00 am 0:15 |
 Steven R. Newcomb  | Steven R. Newcomb, Conference Chair |
| Conference Keynote: "Being There: The Power of the New Media" |
9:15 am 1:00 |
| Claude Len Bullard | Len Bullard, Computer Systems Analyst |
| Lockheed-Martin, Huntsville, Alabama |
| Claude Len Bullard | Abstract: The birthing time is over; childhood begins. Useful, working tools have emerged and with them have emerged the long-awaited new media. Now it is time to discover and test their power. We can integrate media at an unprecedented scale. We can create interactive worlds with nothing more than a PC and an ISP connection. We can distribute our personal visions via networks so large that few parts of our planet remain isolated from them. We can even integrate our worlds and visions with the worlds and visions of others. |
| The new media have arrived. The creative possibilities challenge us to explore them. It is finally time to start having some fun; let the good times roll! |
| (This presentation will include a demonstration of Len's recent VRML work, including the Talosian spaceport and the Kate Bush extravaganza.) |
| Claude Len Bullard | About the Keynote Speaker : Len Bullard has been extraordinarily influential in the design of HyTime, in the MID project, and in the long range planning of the Defense Department and its suppliers with respect to their handling of complex technical and business information. In 1989, he was initially responsible for alerting the DoD to the defense implications of what everyone else thought was merely a language for music representation. Soon thereafter he wrote his seminal and influential monograph, "Beyond the Book Metaphor," in which, among other things, he proposed that the modeling power of HyTime could be used to detect sources of noise -- reasons for chaotic, irrational, and superstitious behavior -- in organizational operations. Later, this same book was regarded as having sufficient strategic importance that it was listed by the U.S. government as non-exportable information. (Mr. Bullard is working on a revised version for publication now.) An accomplished singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter, Mr. Bullard operates a recording studio and record company, Blind 'Dillo Records. He is the creator of a remarkable and ground-breaking VRML document about the British musician Kate Bush, which is available to the public via the internet. Mr. Bullard is speaking primarily in his role as a VRML author/artist/composer, but also in his capacity as one of the most respected prophets of the SGML industry. |
| Carla Corkern | "I've Got an SGML Database - Why Do I Need Hytime?" |
10:15 am 0:30 |
| Carla Corkern, President, ISOGEN International Corp dba Highland Consulting, Dallas, Texas |
| Carla Corkern | Abstract: In 1994, we began work on a customer project to create a system for component-based information development. The customer's vision (and metaphor) was to create blocks of information and have documents built from these blocks. The goal of this information development system was to create pieces of information that were so generic and small that they could be assembled into custom documents by a database query system. However, the interlinking and mutual dependencies of these small fragments of data were unmanageable in current SGML database technology. This talk will focus on the difference between SGML ENTITY managers - SGML BLOB managers and SGML ELEMENT managers (the three kinds of current SGML Repository products) and provide a wish list of how these product designs can evolve to support the goals and promise of HyTime. |
(break) 10:45 am 0:15 |
| Steven R. Newcomb | "It's All About Architectures" |
11:00 am 0:45 |
| Steven R. Newcomb TechnoTeacher Web Site: http://www.techno.com | Steven R. Newcomb, President , TechnoTeacher, Inc., Rochester, New York, |
| Charles F. Goldfarb | Abstract: SGML has always been `object oriented' in some senses. Now ISO 10744 gives SGML extended facilities that support formal inheritance and subclassing mechanisms (described in the immediately following presentation by Charles Goldfarb). These facilities will change the way we use and think about SGML in surprising and even radical ways. They make information represented in SGML better able to describe itself, and even more flexible, reusable, and interchangeable. Here are some problems, questions, and requirements that the presenter thinks SGML architectures will solve, answer, and fulfill. |
| Charles F. Goldfarb | Technical Keynote, Part I: State of the HyTime Standard: "Architectural Form Definition Requirements in the ISO 10744 Technical Corrigendum" |
11:45 am 0:45 |
| Information Management Consulting Web Site: http://www.SGMLsource.com | Charles Goldfarb, Project Editor, ISO 8879 & 10744 , Information Management Consulting, Saratoga, California, |
| Charles F. Goldfarb | Abstract: The HyTime architecture pioneered the use of `architectural forms'. HyTime's architectural form mechanism allows, e.g., hyperlink elements to be recognized as hyperlink elements, even when their element type names might lead one to think otherwise. The HyTime Technical Corrigendum, among other `SGML Extended Facilities', provides the ability to create and recognize formal architectures other than (or in addition to) the HyTime architecture. |
(lunch) 12:30 pm 1:00 |
| Charles F. Goldfarb | Technical Keynote, Part II: State of the HyTime Standard: "The Rest of the Technical Corrigendum" |
1:30 pm 0:45 |
| Charles Goldfarb, Project Editor, ISO 8879 & 10744, Information Management Consulting, Saratoga, California |
| Eliot Kimber | Abstract: The architectural form definition requirements aspect of the Technical Corrigendum of ISO 10744 is complemented by a variety of other facilities that, in effect, extend the power of SGML. This talk includes an overview of these facilities, which include property sets and groves (which will be presented in more detail later in the conference by Eliot Kimber), and formal system identifiers and storage managers. The division of the HyTime architecture into separate architectures will be discussed, as will the enhancements to those architectures that have been welcome by-products of the Technical Corrigendum. |
| Michel Biezunski | "Invisible HyTime" |
2:15 pm 0:45 |
| High Text Web Site: http://www.hightext.com | Michel Biezunski, Director , High Text SARL, Paris, France, |
| Michel Biezunski | Abstract: HyTime's concepts are perhaps most useful when `hidden' from the end user. This paper will focus on the concept of independent linking, which opens new vistas unavailable in traditional hypertext architectures. Topic maps are presented as one example of something that is best done in the light of certain HyTime concepts. |
(break) 3:00 pm 0:15 |
| Lois Delcambre | "Topic Navigation Maps: Modeling Flexibility vs. Modeling Weirdness" |
3:15 pm 0:30, |
| Lois Delcambre, Associate Professor, Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, Oregon |
| Lois Delcambre | Abstract: This talk is the result of a systematic investigation of the information modeling options available in the topic map paradigm. Since, in HyTime, anything can be an anchor, it may be possible to create nonsensical topic map constructs, and to use the topic map formalism in suboptimal ways. An assessment of the various possibilities will be given. |
| Lois Delcambre | "Topic Map Research and Prototype Systems at the Oregon Graduate Institute" |
3:45 pm 0:30, |
| Lois Delcambre, Associate Professor, Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, Oregon |
| Lois Delcambre | Abstract: Two prototype systems that implement the topic map concept have been created at the Oregon Graduate Institute. The thinking that went into these systems, their design, related issues, and the lessons learned from them will be discussed. |
| Matthew Fuchs | SGML as a General Agent Communication Language" |
4:15 pm 0:45 |
| Matthew Fuchs, Senior Software Designer, Walt Disney Imagineering, Glendale, California |
| Matthew Fuchs | Abstract: How can interactive information be structured in such a way that the user can be either human or computational? User interfaces can be represented as a kind of document specifying the application's requirements. This approach provides new flexibility, and has implications for the design of network browsers operating in heterogeneous environments and providing access to heterogeneous documents. |
(adjourn) 5:00 pm |
Wednesday, August 21 start time duration -------------------- ---------- -------- |
| Eliot Kimber | "Property Sets and Groves" |
8:00 am 0:45 |
| Eliot Kimber | W. Eliot Kimber, Senior SGML Consultant and HyTime Specialist , Passage Systems Inc., Austin, Texas |
| Eliot Kimber | Abstract: ISO 10744 provides a formalism, the `Property Set', for describing the syntactic and semantic properties of such things as SGML documents and the constructs found in such documents. This is an extremely useful thing to do, not least because it allows a formal (and therefore queriable) name to be assigned to each construct and feature. A Property Set is a lot like an object model. A `grove' is a set of objects that conforms to a property set, and that is created by some process such as SGML parsing. |
| Eliot Kimber | "The SGML Property Set" |
8:45 am 0:30 |
| W. Eliot Kimber, Senior SGML Consultant and HyTime Specialist, Passage Systems Inc., Austin, Texas |
| Eliot Kimber | Abstract: Both ISO 10744 and ISO 10179 (DSSSL) contain the official, standard property set of SGML. All of the features and constructs of SGML, and the essential relations between them, are represented in this property set, and each has been given a set of names. In effect, the SGML property set describes in abstract terms the output of a conforming SGML parser. |
| Peter J. Newcomb | "The HyTime Property Set" |
9:15 am 0:45 |
| Peter J. Newcomb | Peter Newcomb, Senior Software Engineer, TechnoTeacher, Inc., Rochester, New York |
| Peter J. Newcomb | Abstract: The Technical Corrigendum of ISO 10744 includes an expanded formal property set for the HyTime and General Architectures. This talk will provide an overview of the HyTime property set, and it will focus especially on the properties of the hyperlinking and addressing facilities, and on the special features of property sets required by the HyTime architecture. |
(break) 10:00 am 0:15 |
| Peter J. Newcomb | "From Property Sets To Database Schemas" |
10:15 am 0:45 |
| Peter Newcomb, Senior Software Engineer, TechnoTeacher, Inc., Rochester, New York |
| Peter J. Newcomb | Abstract: This talk is about TechnoTeacher's development of database schemas from property sets, and particularly its development of a comprehensive database schema for SGML documents, based on the SGML property set, and expressed in an object description language. |
| Michael Anderson | "Report on the MID Project" |
11:00 am 0:15 |
| M. Michael Anderson, President, Antech Systems, Inc., Chesapeake, Virginia |
| Michael Anderson | Abstract: This talk is a brief overview of the state of the MID (Metafile for Interactive Documents) project of the US Navy, and an introduction to the presentation by Dave Cooper which immediately follows this one. The objectives of the MID, how they have been achieved so far, and the products now available to the public will be discussed. |
| David W. Cooper | "HyMID Relationships" |
11:15 am 0:45 |
| Dave Cooper, Antech Systems, Inc., Durham, North Carolina |
| David W. Cooper | Abstract: This presentation will focus on the implementation of HyTime in the MID <relationship> element. The operation of <relationship>s will be illustrated using the prototype MID Reader software, HyMID, which is now available to the public at http://navycals.dt.navy.mil/mid/midprod.html. |
(lunch) 12:00 pm 1:00 |
| Kurt Conrad | "SoftQuad Panorama Version 2" |
1:00 pm 0:20 |
| Kurt Conrad, The Sagebrush Group, Pasco, Washington |
| Kurt Conrad | Abstract: Panorama was one of the first commercial applications to use and support the HyTime Standard. SoftQuad is completing a major revision of the package. This presentation will provide an overview of Panorama Pro version 2, now in beta release, and highlight the changes from the previous version. |
| Brian L. Johnson Jeffrey Bradshaw | "AECMA 1000-D Specifies HyTime" |
1:20 pm 0:20 |
| Brian L. Johnson, with Jeffrey Bradshaw, Boeing Defense and Space Group, The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington |
| Brian L. Johnson Jeffrey Bradshaw | Abstract: The technical documentation for certain European aircraft will be represented using HyTime. This report will provide some details about the AECMA 1000-D standard. |
| Derek Denny-Brown | "Strongly Typed Hyperlinks" |
1:40 pm 0:20 |
| Derek Denny-Brown, Software Engineer, TechnoTeacher, Inc., Rochester, New York |
| Derek Denny-Brown | Abstract: The typing strength of HyTime hyperlinks provide an extensible way to reuse existing data without having to copy or alter it, and to make it a sharable resource. Strong typing of hyperlinks has some interesting implications. |
| Eliot Kimber | "Defaulting Rules for the HyTime Architecture" |
2:00 pm 0:30 |
| W. Eliot Kimber, Senior SGML Consultant and HyTime Specialist, Passage Systems Inc., Austin, Texas |
| Eliot Kimber | Abstract: Good defaulting rules can make it much easier to learn and use many specification languages; HyTime can benefit from this. The author proposes that the ISO 10744 Technical Corrigendum have several enhancements to its defaulting rules, so that saying less will be more meaningful more often. |
| "Product Announcements" |
2:30 pm 0:15 |
| (Those who have product announcements should make arrangements with Steve Newcomb to make those announcements during this time slot.) |
(break) 2:45 pm 0:15 |
| Christopher William Higgins | "Requirements for Activity Policy Applications" |
3:00 pm 0:45 |
| Chris Higgins, School of Law, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington |
| Christopher William Higgins | Abstract: Today, activity policies are usually expressed on paper, and they take the form of licensing agreements between information asset owners and their licensees, written in natural language. In written agreements, however, the conventions of natural language often interfere with the total formality and precision that must characterize such agreements, and this is much of the reason why legal jargon is regarded as gibberish by much of the general population. (Ironically, computers generally can't understand it, either.) However, it seems inevitable that someday the degree of detail and nuance that can be expressed and enforced by information delivery systems acting as brokers and escrow agents on behalf of owners and licensees will ultimately approach that of natural language. What are some of the requirements that such systems must fulfill, and, particularly, what are the expressive requirements of the languages that will describe policies of information owners with respect to their assets? |
| Alan D. Talbot | "Standard Music Description Language -- Ten Years Later, an ISO 10743 Standard" |
3:45 pm 0:45 |
| Alan D. Talbot, Graphire Corporation |
| Alan D. Talbot | Abstract: The speaker, who was the first Secretary of the SMDL committee that eventually created HyTime, as well as the founder of an important supplier of music typesetting systems to the professional music publishing industry, will summarize the SMDL standard and discuss its significance for the music industry. |
| Catherine Hamon Michel Biezunski | "A Topic Map of This Conference's Proceedings" |
4:30 pm 0:30 |
| Michel Biezunski and Catherine Hamon, High Text SARL, Paris, France |
| Catherine Hamon Michel Biezunski | Abstract: Some (and with luck, eventually all) of the speakers at this conference have provided their papers to High Text SARL in support of an experiment in quick topic mapping, using High Text's unique EnLighteN software and topic mapping services. If the experiment succeeds, conference participants will receive the Proceedings of this conference in electronic form, accompanied by a topic map, which will make the contents of the Proceedings much more useful and handy for later reference. |
(adjourn) 5:00 pm |
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