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Subject: Invitation to a Workshop on Scientific Document Interchange


Please feel free to forward this to others who you believe may be interested.

Marvin Sirbu
CMU
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            WORKSHOP ON SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENT INTERCHANGE 

                         September 3-4, 1987
                     Carnegie Mellon University
                      Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

                            Sponsored by
                     Carnegie Mellon University
                       University of Michigan
                     National Science Foundation

Electronic  mail  is  increasingly  being  used within the scientific
community for the exchange  of  working  papers,  articles,  research
proposals  and  more  informal  communication.   Technology presently
available to most researchers limits such interchange to simple  text
documents.

With   the   advent  of  more  powerful,  graphics-oriented  personal
computers and workstations,  a  demand  is  growing  to  be  able  to
exchange  documents  containing  equations,  line  drawings,  scanned
images, and more sophisticated text incorporating multiple fonts  and
type  sizes.    The  National Science Foundation, throught its EXPRES
project  (Experimental  Research   in   Electronic   Submission)   is
supporting the development and trial deployment of systems capable of
exchanging "compound documents," such as  NSF  proposals,  containing
information in multiple formats.

Key  to  the success of the EXPRES project is the eventual support by
users and software developers of a standard format  for  representing
compound  documents,  so  that  they  may  be exchanged among diverse
computer and software systems.

The purpose of this workshop on Scientific Document Interchange is to
explore   emerging  international  standards  for  compound  document
interchange; assess the suitability of these  standards  for  meeting
the  needs  of  the  scientific community; and to formulate an agenda
for: the  further  development  of  document  interchange  standards,
influencing  vendors  to  support  standards,  and experiments in the
exchange of  documents  using  these  standards.    Invitees  to  the
workshop will include representatives of :

   - academic   institutions  actively  involved  in  developing
     compound document editing systems,

   - vendors of hardware and software  systems  widely  used  by
     academic researchers,

   - representatives   of   groups   concerned  with  electronic
     submission of scientific manuscripts for publication.

The workshop will be designed  to  encourage  active  discussion  and
exchange of views among the participants.

            AGENDA                            PARTICIPANTS

Thursday, Sept 3                    The  following is a partial list
                                    of institutions invited to  send
a.m.    Welcome and introduction    representatives.

        Overview by each            Universities  
        participant of relevant          CMU
        activities underway              University of Michigan
                                         Berkeley
        Emerging ISO standards           Brown
                                         MIT
p.m.    Content types:  text,            Stanford
        graphics, images,                Texas Tech
        spreadsheets, equations     Companies 
                                         BBN
        Issues in document               Apple
        conversion                       Digital Equipment Corp.
                                         IBM
        Application profiles:            Microsoft
        NBS Implementors'                Soft Switch
        Workshop                    Other  
                                         NSF
        Small group discussions          American Mathematical Soc.
                                         American Physical Society
Friday, Sept 4                           Oak Ridge National Labs

a.m.    Key requirements for
        interchange of
        scientific documents

        Potential cooperative
        interchange experiments

        Next steps

End at noon


If you are interested in attending, please contact:
Marvin Sirbu
Department of Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
tel:  412 268 3436
email:  sirbu@andrew.cmu.edu