Where is SGML used?

• managing large amounts of valuable, (predominantly) textual data
• ensuring longevity of the texts
• enabling interchange of data between computer platforms
• facilitating interchange of data between people
• allowing multiple exploitation of texts

For example:

• industry: technical manuals
• publishers
• law firms
• libraries
• WWW
• language data for ``language technologies'':
  • corpora
  • dictionaries, lexicons
  • ...

Some important initiatives:

• Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
• EAGLES and other EU projects
• DocBook (computer manuals)