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Cont. Ed.: Electronic Documents Seminar (TX)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David T. Terry)
Mon Jul 6 20:07:11 1998
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 16:28:52 -0500
From: "David T. Terry" <dterry@uts.cc.utexas.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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CROSS-POSTED
CREATING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS FOR THE NEXT CENTURY
August 6-7, 1998
The University of Texas at Austin, Thompson Conference Center
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This seminar is for professionals whose organization
counts on them to provide solutions to the problems
posed by the management of electronic documents and
records.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this seminar is twofold: to explore the
new technologies we will be using to create documents
inthe coming years, and to examine how those standards
may be the antidote to the jumble of fractious and
proprietary competing formats that threaten to make
modern electronic documents inaccessible to future
generations.
With the advent of the web, the alphabet soup of
acronyms to remember =97 such as SGML, DSSSL, HTML,
XML, XSL, and EAD=97 has exploded. This two-day seminar
will present a view of the emerging standards that
will be used for creating and managing documents in
the twenty-first century. Many of the technical details
involved in the Standardized General Markup Language
(SGML) and its cousin, the Extensible Markup
Language (XML), will be examined to understand why
they are so powerful and how they are meant to be
implemented. To demonstrate some real-world applications,
we will look at some specific implementations of
these markup languages, including Encoded Archival
Description (EAD), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and
others.
This seminar will provide insight as to how and why
these standards evolved, and how they will provide a
framework for the long-term preservation of electronic
records. Special emphasis will be placed on the
fundamental concepts involved in these document
description languages and how they can be used. In
addition, the seminar will study many of the policy
and organizational decisions that must be made when
new document standards are adopted, with examples
ranging from government to private industry.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Stan Gunn is a network manager in charge of Internet
services for the Texas Youth Commission. He earned
his master's degree in Library and Information Science
from The University of Texas at Austin in 1997 with a
specialization in archives and records management. He
is currently working on his Ph.D. at the Graduate
School of Library and Information Science at The
University of Texas at Austin. Stan serves as co-chair
of a workgroup writing electronic records functional
requirements for state agencies in Texas.
COST OF SEMINAR
Regular registration fee is $175. Include a $20.00 late
fee if registration is not postmarked by July 23, 1998.
Check, Visa and Mastercard are accepted. Fee includes
refreshments, handouts and lunch. Fees are used to
support the UT-Austin GSLIS continuing education program.
For more information or for a registration form, contact
David Terry (dterry@uts.cc.utexas.edu). or call the GSLIS
office, (512) 471-8806 for registration information.
Registrations can be faxed, with payment to follow, to
avoid the late fee.
