In 1984, CERN started the CERNDOC project, a document filing and retrieval system that would standardize CERN's manifold and mutually incompatible documentation practices. The project adapted an earlier documentation system developed at the
Rutherford Laboratory, a British particle physics research facility. and a SGML application created in 1986 by Anders Berglund, who was at the time responsible for text processing in the CERN data handling division. Berglund mapped a Waterloo
SCRIPT macro set onto SGML, basing his application on the document type defined in Annex E of
ISO 8879 and on
AAP DTD, the
American Association of Publishers' document type. Prior art also includes the
IBM GML starter set. The application features an extensive tag set for preparing foils, memos, letters, scientific papers, and manuals, amongst other use cases. CERN announced plans to discontinue its use of mainframe computing in 1994, and the CERNVM service eventually ended on 30 June 1996. ==Relevance for HTML==