JTC 1/SC 34 - Document Description and Processing Languages

0. CHAIRMAN

At the SC 34 Plenary Meeting held in Kyoto, Japan, 2007-12-08/11, SC 34 endorsed the Secretariat's nomination of Dr. Sam Oh as the new chairman. This nomination will be sent to the JTC 1 plenary meeting to be held in Nara, Japan, 2008-12 for appointment.

Dr. Sam Gyun OH
Department of Library & Information Science
Sungkyunkwan University, Faculty Hall 40314
Myungryun-dong 3-Ga, 53
Jongro-Gu, Seoul, Korea, 110-745

Telephone: +82-2-760-0327;
Facsimile: +82-2-760-0326;
E-mail: samoh21 at gmail.com

1. The SCOPE of this committee is:

Standardization in the field of document structures, languages and related facilities for the description and processing of compound and hypermedia documents, including:

• languages for describing document logical structures and their support facilities
• languages for describing document-like objects in web environments
• document processing architecture and formatting for logical documents
• languages for describing interactive documents
• multilingual font information interchange and related services
• final-form document architecture and page information interchange
• hypermedia document structuring language and application resources
• API's for document processing

2. MEMBERSHIP:

SC 34 has 40 Participating (P) Members, 13 Observers (O) Members, 6 Liaison members Internal to ISO and IEC, and 4 External Liaison members.
See the lists for the details.

• P-members
• O-members
• Liaisons

3. MEETINGS:

3.1 Future Meeting:

The next SC34 plenary session is scheduled for 2008-04-05/09 in Oslo, Norway.

Draft Agenda:

Plenary: SC 34 N 976
 Zip file containing agenda and linked reference documents

WG 1: SC 34 N 991
WG 2: SC 34 N 986
WG 3: SC 34 N 996

Meeting venue :

Plenary, WG 1 and WG 3 (2008-04-05/09)

Håndverkeren Course and Conference Centre
Rosenkrantzgate 7
Oslo, Norway

WG 2 (2008-03-31/04-01)

Standard Norway
Strandveien 18
1326 Lysaker, Norway

Logistical information is contained in SC 34 N 984.

3.2 Past Meeting:

DIS 29500 BRM:

• In regard to the September 2, 2007 JTC 1 ballot on the fast track DIS 29500 based on Ecma 376, the ballot resolution meeting (BRM) was held in the week of February 25-29, 2008 at the International Conference Centre Geneva.
  Meeting Report: N 997
  
  
• Convener:
  Dr. Alex Brown (E-mail: alexb at griffinbrown.co.uk )
  

SC 34 Plenary Meeting:

• The last SC 34 plenary session was held 8-11, 2007 in Kyoto, Japan. The adopted Resolutions are available as SC 34 N 968rev.
  

4. WORKING GROUPS

Convener: Dr. MURATA, Makoto (E-mail: eb2m-mrt at asahi-net.or.jp)

SC 34/WG 1 is responsible for information description languages, principally the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and auxiliary standards relating to SGML subsets, APIs, testing and registration.

• SGML (ISO/IEC 8879)
• SDIF (ISO/IEC 9069)
• Registration Procedures for SGML Public Identifiers (ISO/IEC 9070)
• Technical Reports 9573
• Conformance Testing for SGML Systems (ISO/IEC 13673)
• APIs for document processing
• Document Schema Definition Languages - DSDL - (ISO/IEC 19757)
  • Project page: http://dsdl.org

4.2 WG 2: Information Presentation

Convener: Dr. KOMACHI, Yushi (E-mail: komachi at y-adagio.com)

SC 34/WG 2 is responsible for producing standards for languages and resources for the description and processing of compound and hypermedia documents, including:

• Document processing architecture and formatting for logical documents
• Multilingual font information interchange and related services
• Final-form document architecture and page information interchange
• APIs for the above document processing

Working group home page: http://www.y-adagio.com/public/sc34wg2

Registration Authority of ISO/IEC 10036 http://10036ra.org/

4.3 WG 3: Information Association

Convener: Dr. Patrick DURUSAU (E-mail: patrick at durusau.net)

SC 34/WG 3 is responsible for producing standard architectures for information management and interchange based on ISO 8879, Standard Generalized Markup Language and related standards, including, but not limited to:

• Information linking and addressing
• Time-based information management
• Representation of knowledge structures, indexes, etc.
• Management of behavioral components in interactive documents

5. PROJECTS

• Published standards
• Programme of Work
• Project summary

6. PERSONNEL

• Officers

  7. BALLOTS

  • List of open ballots
  • E-balloting (access by P-members only)
    Log-in information is provided to the national body contacts by the SC 34 Secretariat. Comments on ballot texts from O-members and Liaisons should be sent to the SC 34 Secretariat via e-mail.

  8. DOCUMENTS

  All the SC 34 documents are available from the following repository.

  SC 34 Document Repository: http://lucia.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/itscj/servlets/ScmDoc10?Com_Id=34

  Note: According to the JTC 1 Directives Annex H, some documents are protected by Password. To obtain the password information, please contact your national body.

  9. CONTACTS

  Secretariat contact: Ms. Toshiko KIMURA

  IPSJ/ITSCJ (Information Processing Society of Japan/Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan)*
  Room 308-3, Kikai-Shinko-Kaikan Bldg., 3-5-8, Shiba-Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011 Japan
  *Standard Organization Accredited by JISC
  

  Telephone: +81-3-3431-2808; Facsimile: +81-3-3431-6493; E-mail: kimura at itscj.ipsj.or.jp
  

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