Products and Services: Graphic Communications Association

Extensible HTML for Web Publishing

GCA announces its support for XML -- a new, extensible "HTML" to support emerging Web publishing requirements. XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is being developed under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium and is currently a W3C Working draft. The XML working draft has been on a fast track for the past six months and will be formally presented to W3C in April 1997.

1997 Board of Directors

GCA announces its 1997 Board of Directors and officers who represent top management from printing, publishing, paper manufacturing, list management and fulfilment, computer systems integration, information systems management and software development industries.

The new slate of officers comprises:

Chair: Pam Gennusa, Managing Director, Database Publishing Systems Ltd
Vice Chair Information Technologies: Freelon Hunter, Systems Manager, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
Vice Chair Print Media: Diane Romano, President, Applied Graphics Technologies
Secretary: Craig Hutchinson, President and CEO, Perry Graphic Communications
Treasurer: Steve Brown, President, InfoObjects, Inc.
Immediate Past Chair: Edward Lane, President, Specialized Publication Services, R.R. Donnelley & Sons

Scheduled Events for 1997

Conferences

11th - 16th May 1997

SGML Europe '97, Princess Sofia Intercontinental Hotel, Barcelona, Spain.

23rd - 25th September 1997

SGML Asia-Pacific '97, Sydney, Australia

8th - 11th December 1997

SGML '97, The Sheraton Hotel, Washington, DC

Ms Julie Morrison, Tel: +1 703 519 8174; Fax: +1 703 548 2867; Email: jmorrison@gca.org; WWW: http://www.gca.org/