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:

• 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) is scheduled for the week of February 25-29, 2008 at the International Conference Centre Geneva http://www.cicg.ch/en/index.php. Only representatives of those national bodies who responded to the ballot that closed September 2 are eligible to attend, and, therefore, only those national bodies are permitted to change their registered vote on DIS 29500 with their membership status as recorded in ballot summary. No additional votes can be cast in this matter; P-member/O-member membership status in SC34 is irrelevant to the BRM. Within 30 days after the BRM, national bodies will indicate if their original vote stands or if they wish to change their original vote; there is no new vote per se on approving the DIS. In accordance with the JTC 1 Directives, the progress of the specification will depend on the revised status of all previously-received votes after the BRM. Observers, press and national bodies not voting in the September 2, 2007 ballot are prohibited from attending the BRM. Please see SC 34 N 932: Frequently Asked Questions regarding DIS-29500 Ballot Resolution Meeting for more details.
  
  

• Convener:
  Dr. Alex Brown (E-mail: alexb at griffinbrown.co.uk )
  
  
• Relevant Documents:
  Draft Agenda: SC 34 N 933(Rev 2)
  Proposed Dispostion of Comments: SC 34 N 980
  Frequently Asked Questions regarding DIS-29500 Ballot Resolution Meeting: SC 34 N 932
  
  
• Logistical information:
  Venue:
  Room 5&6 on the 3rd floor,
  International Conference Centre Geneva
  http://www.cicg.ch/en/index.php
  
  List of Hotels: Liste des hotels 2008.pdf  
  Hotel Reservation form: ISO_hotel_reservation_form.pdf
  List of Nearby Restaurants: RESTAURANTS - 2008.pdf
  
  
• Information for On-site Registration:
  - Registration will take place from 8:00am to 12:00pm on the 1st day of the meeting (2008-02-25). (Note: the meeting starts at 9:00 am)
  - The registration desk will be located at the main entrance hall on the ground floor. (There will be a sign with the meeting. )
  - The participants are kindly requested to bring their identity card (passport, etc...) as badges will be provided only with the presentation of their ID.
  - Only badge holders can access the meeting room, Room 5&6 on the 3rd floor.
  - Any replacement must be announced by 2008-02-21 by email to takahashi@iso.org, and replacement without advance notice will not be accepted.
  - The registration desk will close at 12:00pm on 2008-02-25. Any registration after this time will take place at Room 19 on the 3rd floor.
  
  Host contact:
  Maho Takahashi (Ms.)
  ISO/IEC Information Technology Task Force
  ISO Central Secretariat
  1, ch. de la Voie-Creuse
  Case postale 56
  CH-1211 Geneva 20
  Switzerland
  Tel: +41 22 749 73 70
  Fax: +41 22 749 73 49
  E-mail: takahashi@iso.org

The next SC34 plenary session is scheduled for 2008-04-05/09 in Oslo, Norway.
The first draft agenda is contained in SC 34 N 976.

• Meeting venue:
  Håndverkeren Course and Conference Centre
  Rosenkrantzgate 7
  Oslo, Norway
  http://www.norwegianpress.no/webconle/firma/26/artikkel.asp?artid=392
  
  Logistical information is contained in SC 34 N 984.

Past 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

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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