<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>We are posting short blurbs on <a href="http://hwww.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 <a href="http://hwww.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.</div><div><br></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>"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 (structured query language)</b> standards. This is how relational databases percolated from IBM (which had donated SEQUEL) out into the wider world. "X3H3 records" hardly captures that. See <<a href="http://purl.umn.edu/40837">purl.umn.edu/40837</a>></li><li>"<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">purl.umn.edu/41474</a>></li><li>"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 <<a href="http://purl.umn.edu/42431">purl.umn.edu/42431</a>></li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>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 <<a href="http://www.cbi.umn.edu/research/ntravelfund.html">http://www.cbi.umn.edu/research/ntravelfund.html</a>>.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best, Tom Misa</div><div>===========================</div></body></html>