Date: 1999-10-24
-a taxonomy helps to identify all aspects of the domain in question which might be subject to standardization;
-a taxonomy helps to provide a logical structure for the standardization activity.
A taxonomy has been developed of relevant concepts in the domain of European localization requirements, based on user requirements for functionality, as discussed in Clause 4 of Part I of the CEN/TC304/PT01 report on User requirements on IT.
By way of an application, all known current standards and standardization
activities have been grouped according to this taxonomy, thus forming another
type of taxonomy, that of the standards themselves.
The taxonomy in clause 3.2 was based on references ISO/IEC TR 10000-1,
ISO TR 12382 and IEC 824 and the activities of appropriate standardization
bodies, but most notably the work of CEN/TC304 and ISO/IEC JTC 1.
The taxonomy in clause 3.2 takes the classic form of a tree structure, where two major classes are recognized; Locales and Characters. The former deals with the cultural environment of the user, the latter with the smallest divisible parts that make up the messages which are being electronically processed.
A taxonomy of whatever phenomena can be constructed in several ways, depending on its purpose and the aspects applied. (For instance, a number of persons may be grouped firstly according to age, then according to gender, then according to place of living -- or precisely the other way around, according to need.) A taxonomy for standardization purposes naturally has to take into account the most practical ways to group existing standards and standardization projects as well as the logical connections between them and any conceptual "holes" which may need to be filled in order to cover the full need for standardization.
The following taxonomy is thus intended to provide a map for almost all of the user requirements. Therefore the level of subordination in some cases go very deep -- this does not mean that the actual standardization projects need a taxonomy of the same complexity. When a sub-level is empty of existing or future standards, the entries in that sub-level are simply collapsed and only the level above remains.
Code | Title | Current standardization or research activity |
/ (no id) | TAXONOMY | CEN/TC304 |
L/ | LOCALES | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/1 | Specifications | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/11 | Languages | - |
L/111 | Natural languages | - |
L/1111 | Vocabulary | ISO/TC 37, ISO/IEC JTC1 |
L/11111 | Standard terminology | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC1, SC22/WG20 |
L/11112 | Thesauri | - |
L/11113 | Standard phrases | - |
L/11114 | Translation | LRE |
L/1112 | Grammar | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/1113 | Orthography | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/11131 | Alphabet | CEN/TC304, CEN/ISSS WS-Alpha |
L/11132 | Spelling | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/11133 | Use of special characters | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/11134 | Capitalization | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/11135 | Hyphenation | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/11136 | Punctuation | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/11137 | Transcription | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/11138 | Ordering | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20, ISO/TC46, ISO/TC37, CEN/TC304 |
L/11139 | Personal names and titles | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/1114 | Speech | LRE |
L/12 | Cultural conventions | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20, X/Open, CEN/TC304 |
L/121 | Cultural elements | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/1211 | Orthography | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/12111 | Date and time format | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/12112 | Numeric separators | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/12113 | Monetary format | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/12114 | Telephone number format | PTTs, CEPT, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/12115 | Payment number format | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/12116 | Mail address format | CEN/PC8, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/12117 | National places | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/1212 | Measurement system | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/1213 | Layout styles | - |
L/1214 | Paper sizes | ISO/TC6, CEN/TC172, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/13 | Operating system dependency | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15, IEEE, X/Open |
L/131 | POSIX | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15, IEEE, X/Open |
L/132 | Other X/open | X/Open |
L/2 | Registration | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/21 | Procedures | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/211 | Europe | CEN/TC304 |
L/2111 | National | NBs |
L/212 | World-wide | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
L/3 | Implementation | - |
L/31 | Fallback | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20, IETF |
C/ | CHARACTERS | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2 |
C/1 | Character information | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2, SC22 |
C/11 | Identification | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 |
C/111 | Characters | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2 |
C/1111 | Identifiers | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, SC22/WG20 |
C/1112 | Attributes | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20, Unicode |
C/112 | Repertoires | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2, SC22 |
C/1121 | Graphic characters | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2 |
C/11211 | Natural language alphabets | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
C/112111 | Europe | CEN/TC304, CEN/ISSS WS-Alpha |
C/1121111 | General | CEN/ISSS WS-Alpha |
C/1121112 | Elderly/disabled | ISO/TC173 |
C/112112 | World-wide | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
C/11212 | Programming language alphabets | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
C/11213 | Non-alphabetic symbols | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
C/112131 | General | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
C/112132 | Disabled/elderly | TIDE |
C/1122 | Control functions | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG3 |
C/1123 | Registration | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG3 |
C/113 | Glyphs | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 |
C/1131 | Registration | UNICODE |
C/1132 | Character correspondence | UNICODE |
C/114 | Glyph repertoires | UNICODE |
C/1141 | Registration | UNICODE |
C/1142 | Repertoire correspondence | UNICODE |
C/12 | Manipulation | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
C/121 | Transformation | CEN/TC304, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
C/1211 | Case conversion | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15, WG20 |
C/1212 | Transliteration | ISO TC46 (bibliographic) |
C/1213 | Fallback representation | CEN/TC304 , ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20, IETF |
C/2 | Input/output | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22, SC35 |
C/21 | Input | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC35 |
C/211 | Keyboard | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC35, CEN/TC304 |
C/212 | Other means | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC35 |
C/22 | Output | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22, SC35 |
C/221 | Character repertoires | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2, CEN/TC304 |
C/222 | Character attributes | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20, Unicode |
C/3 | Electronic processing | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
C/31 | Coding schemes | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2, SC22; CEN/TC304 |
C/311 | Encoding of graphic characters | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 (text layout) |
C/3111 | 7-bit method | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20; CEN/TC304 |
C/3112 | 8-bit method | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20; CEN/TC304 |
C/3113 | Multiple-octet method | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20, CEN/TC304 |
C/312 | Encoding of control functions | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2 |
C/313 | Code transformations | CEN/TC304 |
C/3131 | UCS--UCS | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 |
C/3132 | UCS--other coding schemes | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20, X/Open |
C/32 | Interchange/communication | IETF |
C/321 | 7-bit method | IETF |
C/322 | 8-bit method | IETF |
C/323 | Multiple-octet method | IETF |
C/33 | Internationalization support | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 and WG20 |
C/331 | Programming languages | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 |
C/3311 | Language-dependent | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 |
C/3312 | Language-independent | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 |
C/332 | Operating systems | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 |
C/333 | Communications | IETF, W3C |
C/3331 | Directory services | CEN/ISSS WS-DIR |
C/3332 | Telematics | IETF |