<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Two misplaced "H's snuck into the first message . . . . no more, 'enry 'iggins . . . . TJM</div><div>--------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005192">Hi all,<br><br>We are posting short blurbs on https://<a href="http://www.facebook.com/babbageinstitute">www.facebook.com/babbageinstitute</a> profiling some of our newer and/or interesting collections. Sometimes, the collection's formal title (visible at http://<a href="http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/archmss.html">www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/archmss.html</a>) does not adequately describe the collection's content. We hope these FB postings, continuing now through August (<i>each Tuesday morning</i>), might help get the word out.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005192"><br></font><div><ul><li><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005192">"American National Standards Institute. X3H2 records" is pretty cryptic . . . its 11 boxes come direct from the committee's secretary (1978--) documenting the NDL (network database language) and <b>SQL</b> (structured query language) standards. This is how relational databases percolated from IBM (which had donated SEQUEL) out into the wider world. "X3H3 records" hardly captures that. See <http://<a href="http://purl.umn.edu/40837">purl.umn.edu/40837</a>></font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005192">"<b>Ada Programming</b> Language Materials, 1981-1990" is not quite so cryptic. Three boxes contain product literature, project reports, technical reports, working papers, newsletters; and user group information. Ada Lovelace was born 200 years ago with the bicentennial coming up 10 December 2015. See <<a href="http://purl.umn.edu/41474">http://purl.umn.edu/41474</a>></font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005192">"SC34 committee records" is also somewhat cryptic . . . this collection documents <b>SGML</b>, the ur-standard from which HTML, XML, and much else derives. Ten boxes document development of SGML and current XML tools . . . early drafts of SGML administrative materials, documentation, working group papers, and standards for computer languages. See <http://<a href="http://purl.umn.edu/42431">purl.umn.edu/42431</a>></font></li></ul></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005192"><br>Please contact CBI's archivist-curator Arvid Nelsen <<a href="mailto:nels0307@UMN.EDU">nels0307@UMN.EDU</a>> for more information about using these or other CBI collections. CBI's collections are open to the public, without charge. We have a modest travel grant program with a deadline each January. Five researchers are supported this year <http://www.cbi.umn.edu/research/ntravelfund.html>.<br><br>All the best, Tom Misa<br>===========================</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>