From: Kathy Lang <klang@bellcore.com>
Subject: Electronic Documentation Conference
Organization: Bellcore
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 22:31:06 GMT


EDD '92 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

Bellcore's Information Management Services Division is 
sponsoring its third Bellcore/Bellcore Client Company (BCC) 
Conference on Electronic Document Delivery as a forum for 
progress in intercorporate exchange of technical 
documentation in electronic form, bringing together 
documentation specialists, information managers, 
researchers, software developers, and users.  A primary focus 
of the conference will be to examine progress made in the 
transition from a paper based environment to an automated 
electronic environment of information dissemination, retrieval 
and management.  Electronic document delivery topics 
encompass development of infrastructures to support 
electronic document handling, including systems to support 
authoring, production, presentation, transmittal, storage, and 
retrieval of information.

Last year's theme "How To Do It," reflected the desire for 
working applications and procedures to implement the 
delivery of technical documentation to BCCs.  This year's 
theme "EDD A Vehicle For Change" reflects the possibilities 
for change in basic business practices which EDD can 
facilitate.  The availability of information in electronic form 
empowers individuals with control of their information 
resources and provides opportunities to use the information 
in new, more effective ways.  The conference examines EDD 
opportunities for change in today's environment in addition to 
examining opportunities afforded by new computing tools 
and techniques which will be available in the near future.  The 
major issues raised at EDD '91 - cost, standards, usability and 
legal - will be investigated more deeply and new issues such 
as automatic information delivery and document management 
will be introduced. 


WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The conference is open to all employees of Bellcore and its 
client companies, and to individuals across industries and 
areas beyond telecommunications, including government, 
academic and manufacturing sectors.  

QUESTIONS TO BE ADDRESSED?

-     What are the most promising international standards for the 
electronic exchange of text and graphics in the 
telecommunications industry?

-     What have people learned from their first-hand 
experiences in producing electronic document 
management systems?

-   What are the legal considerations associated with the 
delivery of electronic documentation?

-   How can you cost-justify an electronic document 
management system?

-   What are some of the possibilities afforded by hypertext 
and hypermedia documents?

-   How will electronic documents be created? produced?  
What types of authoring environments will be required?

-   How do you develop an electronic library network?  What 
are the advantages to a user?



                              EDD 92 Schedule

TUESDAY, OCT. 13, 1992

Tutorials

8:45-10:45 a.m.
Business Aspects of Establishing an EDD Infrastructure (Jay 
Hamlin - U S West)

This tutorial will describe the steps to establishing an EDD 
system.  It will present important basic tasks necessary for 
implementation and discuss the pitfalls to avoid.  
Discussion will also touch on areas of critical concern once 
implementation takes place.  Topics covered include 
project design methodology, the business case, project 
team organization, financials, and functional and technical 
implementation issues.

11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
Technology to Support Electronic Document Authoring 
(Victor Gregg - Bellcore)

This tutorial provides an overview of hardware and software 
technology to support electronic document authoring.  
The tutorial will focus on the needs of the document 
author and manager.  This presentation will describe the 
authoring facilities provided in BASE, the Bellcore 
Advanced Software Environment.

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Creating an Electronic Office Experience (Jeffery Triggs - 
Oxford University Press)

This tutorial will consider some of the practical issues involved 
in conceiving and executing electronic equivalents for the 
time-honored procedures of an old-fashioned, paper 
editorial office.  These issues include dealing with people 
in scattered locations and with widely varying computer 
experience, standardizing different forms of document 
creation and delivery, error control, friendly SGML 
markup, text analysis, and text display.  Special software 
to be featured includes the University of Waterloos Pat 
search engine and Lector text display tool.

2:00-3:30 p.m.
Electronic Document Deliverables in the 
Telecommunications Industry 
(Mark Buckley and Dan Teibel - Bellcore)

Members of the telecommunications industry are attempting 
to exchange technical documentation in standardized 
electronic forms.  This tutorial will provide a description of 
the standardized electronic document forms currently 
being exchanged, the rationales behind them, and the 
problems being encountered with them.  It will also 
include a discussion of directions these document 
exchange forms and strategies are likely to take in the 
future.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14

9:00 - 10:30     Conference Introduction
                         Keynote Speaker

10:30-11:00     Break

11:00-12:00     Panel - Emerging Standards Relevant to EDD 
                             (Dennis Egan - Chair)
                             Standard Electronic Formats (Mark Buckley) 
                             GUI Guidelines  
                             Multimedia Standards (Nathaniel Borenstein)


PARALLEL SESSIONS

1:30-3:00     STANDARDS

1:30-2:00     Panel - Telecommunications Industry Forum 
                            (TCIF) Information
                            Products Interchange (IPI) Committee Status 
                            Report
                            TCIF-IPI Working Committee

2:00-2:30    Standards for Transporting Electronic Documents
                            Eloise Samuels - Bellcore

2:30-3:00     Demand Data Delivery
                            Richard Pasewark - Datalogics Inc.

1:30-3:00     ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES

1:30-2:00     A Real-Time Publishing Model: Network Delivery of 
                     Multimedia Documents
                         Gil Cruz, Thomas Judd, Darren New, Jonathan 
                         Rosenberg - Bellcore

2:00-2:30    Personalized Information Delivery: An Analysis of 
                   Filtering Methods
                            Peter Foltz & Sue Dumais
                            University of Colorado & Bellcore


2:30-3:00     Hypermedia Support to Intelligence Production
                            Michael Josephs - The MITRE Corporation

3:30-5:30     CASE STUDIES I

3:30-4:15     Panel - SGML Implementation in Ericsson 
                    Telecom Documentation
                            Linda Heather - Ericsson Network Systems

4:30-5:00     Case Study: Southwestern Bell Telephone
                            Diane Pickler - Southwestern Bell Telephone
Co.

5:00-5:30     SFQL - Standard Full Text Query Language
                            Ed Deveau - Northern Telecom Inc.

3:30-5:30     MANAGING ELECTRONIC INFORMATION

3:30-4:15     Panel - Interactive Electronic Libraries: A New 
                          Publishing Model 
                            Jeff Beegle - BellAtlantic - DocuSource

4:30-5:00     Precision Document Delivery: The 
                     Telecommunications Faceted
                      Classification Scheme
                            Kathy Lang, Virginia Meade, & Don Pratt
                            Bellcore

5:00-5:30     An Approach to Non-Linear Document 
                    Management
                            John Gawkowski - SGML/CALS Product 
                            Development - Information Dimensions Inc.

THURSDAY, OCT. 15

9:00 - 10:30     Introduction to Day 2
                        Keynote Speaker

11:00-12:00     Liability Issues:  What's Worth Worrying About 
                         and What's Not -  Pamela Samuelson, 
                          University of Pittsburgh, School of Law

12:00-12:30     Legal Perspectives of EDD - Post Feist
                                  Leonard Suchyta - Bellcore

PARALLEL SESSIONS

2:00-3:00     CASE STUDIES II

2:00-2:30     The Devil is in the Details
                            Mark Gross & Michel Vulpe
                            Data Conversion Laboratory & SoftQuad

2:30-3:00     An Alliance for Transitioning to Electronic 
                     Documentation in the Bellcore TEC 5ESS
                      Switch Maintenance Curriculum
                            E.L. Campbell & A.M. Williams - 
                            Bellcore

2:00-3:00     ENTERPRISE RE-ENGINEERING

2:00-2:30     Re-engineering through the crystal ball
                            Peter Clitherow - Bellcore

2:30-3:00     Experiences with the SuperFormsTM  System
                            Anthony Dayao, Kamran Rafieyan, Kathy Lang
                            Cindy Jiang, Amelia Howard - Bellcore

3:30-4:30     AUTHORING

3:30-4:00     SGML is a data exchange standard, not a 
                    database
                            Pat Byrne- AGFA

4:00-4:30     Integrative Electronic Document Delivery
                            Larry Bohn - Interleaf


3:30-4:30     ENTERPRISE RE-ENGINEERING II

3:30-4:00     A Quality Approach to Standardizing 
                     Electronic Document Production
                            John Jeandron - Bellcore

3:30-4:00     TAFI - A Production Tool for Gathering and 
                    Reporting Information 
                            Relating to Technical Analysis
                            B.S. Fox, N. Jasinski, & J.G. Wiatrak
                            Bellcore

4:30-5:00     Closing


GENERAL INFORMATION


Conference Hotel Information

Bellcore has reserved a block of rooms at the Sheraton Tara 
Hotel in Parsippany, New Jersey for attendees and 
participants of EDD '92.  Those wishing to stay at the hotel 
should make their reservations by September 25th to 
guarantee accommodations by calling the hotel directly at 
(201) 515-2000 and identifying yourself as an EDD'92 
registrant.  Bellcore negotiated a rate of $109 for single or 
double occupancy for attendees.

The Sheraton Tara Hotel has a contract with State Shuttle to 
provide transportation to and from Newark Airport.  The cost 
per person  is $40 roundtrip.  Reservations must be made 24 
hours in advance.  This is the only  discounted transportation 
that is offered by the Sheraton Tara Hotel. The drive is 30 
minutes and ordinarily costs about $80. Conference 
attendees can reach State Shuttle at (201) 729-0030 to 
make reservations. 


Meals/Reception

We have structured the conference to allow ample time for the 
informal exchange of information and ideas during the Get-
Acquainted Reception on Wednesday night, the daily 
continental breakfasts, and lunches on Wednesday and 
Thursday.


Fees

Fees cover the conference proceedings, continental 
breakfasts, lunches for two days, the Get-Acquainted 
Reception, admission to the tutorials, and all tutorial materials.

For all BCCs including Southern New England Telephone 
and Cincinnati Bell, there are no fees associated with the 
conference.  The fee for Bellcore employees is $275 (for 
registration applications received by September 25th) and 
$375 (for registration applications received after September 
25th).  Bellcore fees will be charged back to employees' 
organizations.  A check is not required. 

For all other attendees (non-affiliates), the conference is $375 
(for registration applications received by September 25th) and 
$475 (for registration applications received after September 
25th), payable by check or credit card with registration.


Questions/Information

If you have any questions, require additional information or 
would like to receive a copy of the Advance Program please 
contact:  

          Kathy Lang  (201) 829-5215
          email: klang@bellcore.com  or  bcr!bellcore!klang

FAX:  (201) 829-5883


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I will be attending the following tutorials on Oct 13:
(please note: tutorial space is limited and will be taken on
a first come first serve basis)

Morning Sessions (choose all that apply)

_____Business Aspects of Establishing an EDD
          Infrastructure (8:45-10:45 a.m.)

_____Technology to Support Electronic Document
           Authoring (11:00-12:30)

Afternoon Sessions (choose only ONE)
                (2:00-3:30)

_____Creating an Electronic Office Experience

_____Electronic Document Deliverables in the
          Telecommunications Industry


_____I will not be attending the tutorials


MAIL REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT TO:

Bellcore c/o Patricia Fay
60 New England Avenue, Room 1A-234
Piscataway, NJ  08854-4196
FAX:  908-336-2559



Kathy Lang
Information Technology
(201) 829-5215
Bellcore
MRE 2F-033
445 South Street
Morristown, NJ 07960
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