****************** WELCOME TO SGML NEWSWIRE ****************** * * * To subscribe, send mail to sgmlinfo@avalanche.com. * * * * To receive a current table of contents and instructions * * for ordering back issues, specify "send toc" * * in the message body. * * * * (Please pass along to interested colleagues) * * * ************************************************************** COMPUTERWORLD DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT, SGML RESEARCH GRANTS ================================== The April 10, 1995 issue of COMPUTERWORLD magazine includes a guide on document management entitled "Going with the flow." Although SGML is discussed only briefly, the article covers how and why intelligence can be added to documents, and it gives a review of several compound document managers in which SGML is supported. SGML is presented as a "decade-old" standard, that is nevertheless necessary because it is the most widely accepted standard for tagging components in a complex document. The popularity of SGML is said to be a result of the fact that the government has adopted it, and that its subset, HTML, is growing rapidly. "Consequently, many vendors of document authoring software are building SGML converters into their products in an attempt to make the arcane standard easier to use. For instance, Microsoft began selling SGML Author for Word last month..." ***** Lynda Radosevich, Carl Frappaolo, Kevin Burden, "The CW Guide to Document Managment - Going with the flow," COMPUTERWORLD, April 10, 1995, pp.87-97. ***** EDUCATIONAL GRANT PROGRAM _________________________ SGML research has received a strong boost with the onset of a new educational grant program. Universities conducting research on open standards-based publishing on the Internet, may be eligible to receive free SGML tools for use in their efforts. The announcement, published in the Business Wire on April 11, 1995, describes the Educational Grant Program as designed to "advance the tools and practices available to publishers for utilizing vendor-, platform-, and application-independent online publishing models. Grant recipients are qualifying institutions conducting world-class research in online publishing. The Grant Program also aims to garner further support for ISO standards (SGML for electronic publishing and HyTime for hypermedia) by expanding their use in [the] international community..." The Computer Graphics Center in Darmstadt, Germany (ZGDV), and the University of California, Berkeley, are among the first to receive SGML grants from Electronic Book Technologies Educational Grant Program. ZGDV is conducting research on the World Wide Web and will be developing a Competence and Application Development Center (CADENCE) to "present working, real-life online publishing applications to the public." The University of California, Berkeley is conducting research into digital libraries in an effort to provide "...Internet access to primary source materials, such as text, photographs, manuscripts, maps and music scores, [so that] scholars will more often be able to work from their home institutions, rather than flying around the world to search special collections." ***** For more information, contact: Electronic Book Technologies, Providence Paul Lamoureux, 401-421-9550 or EBT S.A., Markus Wachsmuth, 44-22-788-6550 or ZGDV, Hans Holger Rath, 49-6151-155-152 ************************************************************** * SGML NEWSWIRE LIST MANAGER * * * * Kirsten Russell * * Avalanche * * 4999 Pearl East Circle * * Suite 100 * * Boulder, CO 80301 * * sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * krussell@avalanche.com * * Vox: (303) 449-5032 * * Fax: (303) 449-3246 * **************************************************************