***HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS***
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING
JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC'97
June 3-7, 1997
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97
In conjunction with the Conference, a series of Workshops will be held
on Monday 2nd June. These provide excellent hands-on experience in
several aspects of textual analysis and hypermedia.
Workshop 1A
Topic: SGML texts and TACT: sgml2tdb
TACT is one of the most popular text analysis programs around. The session
is taught by the author of the program.
Instructor: John Bradley
Time: Monday, 9 am to noon
Cost: $30 CDN
Workshop 1B
Topic: TACTweb: Putting TACT databases on the Web
TACT is one of the most popular text analysis programs around. The session
demonstrates how TACT searches may be made available on the Web.
Instructors: John Bradley and Geoffrey Rockwell
Time: Monday, 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm
Cost: $30 CDN
Workshop 2
Topic: Text Encoding for Information Interchange
A basic introduction to SGML and text encoding, taught by the editors of
the Text Encoding Initiative standards.
Instructors: Lou Burnard, Nick Finke, Harold Short and C.M. Sperberg-McQueen
Time: Monday, 9 am to noon, 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm
Cost: $34 CDN
Workshop 3A
Topic: Introduction to HTML
Basic web authoring.
Instructor: Stefan Sinclair
Time: Monday, 9 am to noon
Cost: $30 CDN
Workshop 3B
Topic: Interactive HTML
Using Javascript to make web pages interactive.
Instructors: Stefan Sinclair
Time: Monday, 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm
Cost: $30 CDN
Each workshop will have a minimum of 10 participants and a maximum of 20,
first come first served.
Details of each workshop as well as a registration form are available on
the conference web page.