How To Submit A Paper or Extended Abstract For Extreme Markup Languages 2000

Notice: Extended abstracts or full proposed papers should be submitted in SGML or XML via email. Abstracts should be detailed enough to allow peer reviewers to judge the relevance of the topic, the interest of the results, and the quality and technical merit of presentation. Bibliographic references to relevant work should be provided; claims that there is not relevant published work may be cause for skepticism from peer reviewers.

Papers will be published in both the print and electronic proceedings of the conference, and off-prints will be available to authors. Talks, based on the accepted papers, will 30 minutes long, followed by 15 minutes for questions.

Instructions On Paper Submission

Please read and observe all the following instructions. (Print this page for reference while you are preparing your submission.) If you have difficulty understanding or following these guidelines, let us know and we will do our best to address your needs.

1. The SGML and XML DTDs

All papers must be prepared in SGML or XML using the GCA MetaMarkup DTD and the explicit file naming conventions listed below. Please cite your file name (which is also your tracking code) in all correspondence about the paper. (See file naming below.)

The conference DTDs are available at

sgmldtd [SGML]
xmldtd [XML]

The tag sets declared by the DTDs are identical (except for an exclusion in the SGML table model), so you may use your choice. The DTDs are heavily commented. Please read these comments; they are likely to answer many of your questions. Finally, ensure your paper validates against one of these DTDs before you send it to us.

If you have trouble downloading either DTD, let us know and we'll email it to you (let us know which one you want). If you are unable to create your paper in SGML or XML, please send e-mail and we will find someone to assist you.

Note: These DTDs declare almost the same tag set as last year's MTPAPER DTD and the GCAPAPER DTD used for the SGML/XML'97 conference (it is identical except for the root element). Any style sheets for MT'99, MT'98, or SGML/XML'97 papers should be compatible.

2. Due Date

We must receive your submission by 19 April, 2000. Especially if your paper contains complex formatting requirements (many graphics, unusual characters, large tables, equations), we urge you to get the paper to us as soon as possible. We will notify chosen speakers and provide peer comments by 28 May, 2000. Final papers will be due 30 June, 2000.

"A few Last Minute Presentations will also be accepted. Details are available here."

3. Paper Contents

Abstract and Bio

Be sure to include an abstract and biographical information for each author.

Keywords

Provide a few keywords that describe the topic(s) of your paper. Tag each important concept (word or phrase) as a keyword. Keywords will be used to create an index to the proceedings, and might be things such as: Architectural Forms, RDF, Case Study, Industry DTDs, Medicine, XML, DTDs, Schema, Authoring, Databases, or Training. There is no authority control for keywords, so use your best judgement.

Acronyms

If you use acronyms, please tag the first use of each as an acronym and provide the expansion. (In the form: <acronym.grp><acronym>XML</acronym> <expansion>Extensible Markup Language</expansion></acronym.grp>)

Graphics

The acceptable graphics formats will be:

EPS (embedded fonts, ASCII, no preview)
TIFF (uncompressed or LZW compression)

Graphic Sizes:

Maximum width to fit in column: 19.5 picas
Maximum width to fit on page: 41 picas
Maximum depth to fit on page: 53 picas

Please provide preferred sizing of your graphics for the print version of the proceedings; if your preferred size is not 100% of the size provided, use the SCALE attribute to indicate how the graphic should be resized (100% is the default on SCALE).

4. File Naming

Please send the text of your paper in a file named

XXXXMMDD.sgm

XXXXMMDD.xml

where

XXXX	Is the first four letters of your surname. If your surname is less than 4 letters, just use the complete surname.
MM	Is the two-digit number of the month of your birth.
DD	Is the two-digit day of your birth.

For example, if your name is George Washington and you were born on July 4, and you send an XML EXTREMEPAPER instance, your filename is wash0704.xml.

Any graphics should be named XXXXMMDDNN.YYY where NN is a two-digit number, and YYY indicates the format of the graphic: .TIF for TIFF images, .EPS for EPS images. A zipped file containing all of your text and images should be named XXXXMMDD.ZIP.

If you cannot handle file names longer than 8 characters, please contact us and we'll work something out.

5. Compression

We would prefer that all files of a submission were zipped (using a PKZIP-compatible compression utility) into one file. Name it XXXXMMDD.ZIP. If you cannot do that, we'd like each file zipped. If you send your paper via email you may UUENCODE or MIME encode them. Please do not use other compression techniques, even if you know of a better compression/encoding methodology!

6. Delivery And Receipts

Papers can be delivered either via email to Extreme@mulberrytech.com or via file transfer protocol. If you want to use ftp, contact us for instructions. When we receive your paper we will acknowledge it through e-mail, within one business day. If you do not receive such acknowledgment please assume your paper has gone astray and re-send or call us.

Instructions On Extended Abstract Submission

Abstracts should be detailed enough to allow peer reviewers to judge the relevance of the topic, the interest of the results, and the quality and technical merit of presentation. Bibliographic references to relevant work should be provided; claims that there is not relevant published work may be cause for skepticism from peer reviewers.

If the peer reviewers find that your extended abstract has insufficient detail to evaluate your presentation, there will not be time for you revise your submission before the end of the peer review period.

Extended abstract submissions should be marked up using the conference paper DTD and should follow the same file naming and other conventions as full papers, described above.

Questions/Problems

If you have any questions on any of the above, or any problem creating your paper, please send e-mail or call Debbie Lapeyre (+1 301/315-9633) or Tommie Usdin (+1 301/315-9634).

This year we expect more and better papers than ever, and look forward to seeing you in Montreal!