SGML Workshop Announcememnt
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>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.
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>Introduction to SGML for Museums
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>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.
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>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
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>(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
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