The following is the announcement and scheduled programme for SGML Belux' annual conference.
Venue:
Business Faculty
Sint-Lendriksdreef
61120 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)2 264 13 11
08h30-09h00
Registration and Coffee
9h00-09h05
Welcome
09h05-09h50
Keynote speech SGML on the Web: Too little too late, or too much too soon? by Lou Burnard (Oxford University Computing Services).
"A review of solutions, based on key SGML concepts, to problems currently facing web developers and users, plus an overview of the strategies being adopted in bringing full SGML applications to the Web".
09h50-10h30
Practical issues in SGML publishing by Liz Gower (Adobe Systems Europe Ltd.)
"Experiences and thoughts on using CALS and non-CALS table formatting, ID management, and generating multiple electronic delivery formats (besides SGML)".
10h30-11h10
Coffee and visit to exhibition
11h10-11h50
Electronic Databooks - a proof of concept by Norbert G. Mikula (Philips Semiconductors)
"Presentation of an advanced information dissemination solution via the Internet using Cappucino (an SGML parser written in Java) and Yade (Yet Another DSSSL Engine)".
11h50-12h30
The use of SGML by philologists: Experiences gained during the Medieval Slavic Manuscript Encoding Project by Milena P Dobreva (Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Sofia, Bulgaria)
"A discussion of practical experiences in using TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) based encoding of Medieval Slavic manuscripts".
12h30-14h00
Lunch and visit to exhibition
14h00-14h40
Using micro-documents and Hybrid Distributed DataBases for building uphypertext-rich content on-line servers by Erik Skinner (OmniMark Technologies)
"Presentation of the Hybrid Distributes Database: Modelling the information into information units (SGML micro-documents) in combination with RDBMS and full-text retrieval engines".
14h40-15h20
Questor: Publishing social law to different media by Paul Hermans (Pro Text)
"Practical experiences in designing DTD's extended with HyTime (Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language), editing SGML documents with HyTime extensions, and using products such as Synex ViewPort and FrameMaker + SGML".
15h20-15h50
Coffee and visit to exhibition
15h50-16h30
The SGML Tree Transformation Process (STTP): Processing SGML documents in an absolute standardised way by Jacques Deseyne (SEMA Group Belgium)
"An overview of document conversion and processing requirements which can easily be met by SGML delivery systems (browsers, convertors) supporting STTP."
16h30-17h10
DSSSL, the promise FOSI did not fulfil by RAF SCHIETEKAT (Fotek).
"An elaboration on how DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language) can link SGML information with graphical representation, what the DSSSL standard includes and what it leaves open, and how it can do more than FOSI (Formatting Output Specification Instance) ever achieved".
17h10-18h00
Cocktail reception and visit to exhibition
Parallel to the conference there is a vendor exhibition.
For more information, please contact:
Vincent Cappelle
Email: OFFIS NVvcp@offis.be
The fee for members of the International Users' Group is 4.000 BEF. For non-members the fee is 9000 BEF. To make your reservation before October 26th please contact:
SGML BeLux vzw/asblp.a.
Fotek NVJan
Cuyckens Entrepotstraat 39100 Sint-Niklaas
Tel: +32 3 760 11 20
Fax: +32 3 760 11 30
Email: jan@fotek.be
For more information on the conference contact:
Paul Hermans
Pro Text
Interleuvenlaan 62
3001 Leuven
Belgium
Tel: +32 16 40 66 81
Fax: +32 16 40 66 91
Email: Paul_Hermans@protext.be
WWW: http://www.protext.be/
Contact Robin Cover with corrections and updates, or to submit contributions to the ISUG online document database.
