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 me or Marg
Sander.  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.

Margaretta Sander
RR1 252 Viewmount
Tantallon, N.S. B0J 3J0 Canada
voice: 902-826-2824
fax: 902-826-1337
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Katherine Jones-Garmil
Assistant Director
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Harvard University
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02138

(617) 495-1969
(617) 495-7535 (fax)