----------------------------Original message---------------------------- SGML Workshop Announcememnt > >The Museum Computer Network and the CIMI Consortium are sponsoring the >following workshop that will be held before the AAM meeting. The workshop >will be on Friday, May 3. For information, please contact Kathy Jones-Garmil >or Margaretta Sander (902-826-2824). The speakers will be: Steve Dietz of >the National Museum of >American Art, John Perkins, Director of the CIMI Consortium, Thornton >Staples of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, Univ. >of Virginia, and Margaretta Sander. SGML Manager, CIMI Consortium. Other >speakers to be announced. > >Introduction to SGML for Museums > > >SGML makes in-depth museum information available and shareable >electronically, providing many more options than HTML for using museum >information. This workshop is important for policy making museum >management, curators and publications people to understand what SGML is, >its relevance to museum information, and why NEH,The US Department of >Communication, and a consortium of 16 institutions have supported research >on SGML use in museums. > >Teaching will focus on an overview of SGML; on the CIMI Document Type >Definitions (DTDs) and their use for museum publications, collections >databases, multimedia and hypermedia; demonstrations of SGML; and >discussion of case studies using SGML for museum information. Cost: US$200, Date: Friday, May 3, 1996, 9am-4 pm Location Hilton Hotel, Directors Row #2, Minneapolis, Mn Register with: Katherine Jones-Garmil >Assistant Director >Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology >Harvard University >11 Divinity Avenue >Cambridge, MA 02138 >[log in to unmask] >(617) 495-1969 >(617) 495-7535 (fax) Margaretta Sander RR1 252 Viewmount Tantallon, N.S. B0J 3J0 Canada voice: 902-826-2824 fax: 902-826-1337 [log in to unmask]