HyTime(ID:1632/hyt001)

A hypermedia extension of SGML, based on SDML
Related languages
SDML => HyTime   Evolution of
HyTime => SMIL   Influence
References:
  • Newcomb, S. et al, "The HyTime Hypermedia/Time-based Document Structuring Language" pp67-83 view details
          in [ACM] CACM 34(11) Nov 1991 view details
  • Goldfarb, C "A Brief History of the Development of SMDL and HyTime" SGML SIGhyper 1994 (28 June 1994) view details Abstract: HyTime, the Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (ISO/IEC 10744:1992), was developed in conjunction with the development of SMDL, the Standard Music Description Language (ISO/IEC CD 10743). Although space permits only the inventors and principal developers to be named here, several hundred others contributed to the work through meeting participation and written contributions over a ten-year period. Extract: Origins
    Origins
    The first effort to combine descriptive markup, hypertext, and multimedia began in 1984 when Charles F. Goldfarb of IBM Research, the inventor of SGML, proposed an ANSI project to standardize music representation in SGML. He convened an ANSI study group on May 7-8, 1985, co-hosted by IBM and Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), in which 32 people from the music and music software communities participated. They reviewed and endorsed the proposal (ANSI X3 SD3-542D, 1985/06/21), which describes several music and hypermedia applications:

    Music publishing using modern text processing technology, including the integration of music with text and graphics.
    Business presentations involving customized text, graphics and music.
    Computer-assisted instruction with music and sound effects employed to enhance communication and to sustain the student's interest.
    Music education systems that sense the student's playing, provide feedback, and adapt the course materials to the student's rate of progress.
    Inclusion of musical performances and soft-copy "sheet music" as part of the product mix for electronic information distribution via teletext and videotex, as well as enhancement of non-musical product (and advertisements) by musical accompaniment.
    After approval by ANSI (1985/11/22), the first meeting of what is now ANSI X3V1.8M took place in July, 1986, in Half Moon Bay, California; the meeting was hosted by Passport Designs. The committee was (and still is) chaired by Goldfarb, who invented SMDL and HyTime and was Project Editor and technical leader of the standards development effort in both ANSI and ISO. He was joined at that first meeting by Steven R. Newcomb, then with the Florida State University Center for Music Research, and now President of TechnoTeacher, Inc., who serves as Co-Project Editor and Vice-Chairman in ANSI. Goldfarb and Newcomb were the principal designers of both standards, although others made notable design contributions that are described in this history.


          in [ACM] CACM 34(11) Nov 1991 view details