ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N0294

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34

Information Technology --

Document Description and Processing Languages

Title: Secretariats Report 
Source: Sara Hafele
Project:
Project editors:
Status:
Action: For information and review.
Date: 03 March 2002
Summary:
Distribution: SC34 and Liaisons
Refer to:
Supercedes:
Reply to: Dr. James David Mason
(ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Chairman)
Y-12 National Security Complex
Information Technology Services
Bldg. 9113 M.S. 8208
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 U.S.A.
Telephone: +1 865 574-6973
Facsimile: +1 865 574-1896
E-mailk: mailto:mxm@y12.doe.gov
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/sc34oldhome.htm

Ms. Sara Hafele, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat
American National Standards Institute
25 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Tel: +1 212 642-4937
Fax: +1 212 840-2298
E-mail: shafele@ansi.org

 


ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34- Document Description and Processing Languages – Secretariats Report

Chairman – Dr. James D. Mason

Secretariat – Ms. Sara Hafele

1)     SC 34 Membership

          ‘P’ Member Bodies (13)  

Brazil

Japan

Canada

Korea, Republic of

China

The Netherlands

Denmark

Norway

France

USA

Ireland

United Kingdom

Italy

          ‘O’ Member Bodies (4)  

Australia

Germany

Czech Republic

Sweden

 

  2)      Liaisons            

Liaison

Title

Category  

ISO/TC 46

Information and Documentation

Internal

ISO/TC 184 SC 4

Industrial Data and Global Manufacturing Languages

Internal

JTC 1 SC 32

Data Management and Interchange

Internal

SGML UG

Standard Generalized Markup Language Users Group

A

W3C

World Wide Web Consortia

C

OASIS              Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

 

3)      Working Groups          

WG 1 – Markup Languages

Convenor – Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb

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.

1. SGML (ISO 8879)

2. SDIF (ISO 9069)

3. Registration Procedures for SGML Public Identifiers (ISO 9070)

4. Technical Reports 9573

5. Conformance Testing for SGML Systems (DIS 13673)

6. APIs for document processing

 

WG 2 – Information Presentation

Convenor – Dr. Yushi Komachi

SC 32/WG 2 is responsible for producing standards for languages and resources for the description and processing of compounds and hypermedia documents, including:

1. Document processing architecture and formatting for logical documents

2. Multilingual font information interchange and related services

3. Final-form document architecture and page information interchange

4. APIs for the above document processing

 

WG 3 – Information Association

Convenor – Mr. Steve Pepper

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:

1. Information linking and addressing

2. Time-based information management

3. Representation of knowledge structures, indexes, etc.

4. Management of behavioral components in interactive documents

 

4)     SC 34 DOCUMENT REGISTER

(documents posted since the last Secretariats Report)

N 275

Proposed CD Ballot on 19757-0 - DSDL Part 0 – Overview 

WG 1

2001-12-18

N 276

Proposed CD text of Part 2 of DSDL: Grammar-based Schema Languages

 

WG 1

2001-12-18

N 277

Differences between XTM 1.0 and the HyTime-based meta-data

 

M. Biezunski, S. Newcomb

2001-12-19

N 278

Topic maps, roadmap for further work

 

L.M. Garshol

2001-12-19

N 279

Report of SC34/WG2

 

Y. Komachi

2001-12-19

N 280

Report of ISO/IEC 10036 Registration

 

GLOCOM

2001-12-19

N 281

Disposition of comments on SC34 N0216: PDAM1 to ISO/IEC 10179:1996, Extensions to DSSSL

 

SC34/WG2

2001-12-19

N 282

WG2 Program of work revised in WG2 meeting, Dec. 2001

 

SC34/WG2

2001-12-19

N 283

WG2 Comments on Secretariats Report (SC34 N0273)

 

SC 34/WG2

2001-12-19

N 284

Recommendations of Dec. 2001 Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG2 in Orlando

 

SC 34/WG 2

2001-12-19

N 285

Recommendations of the SC34/WG1 Meeting, Orlando, 9–12 December 2001

 

SC34/WG1

2001-12-19

N 286

Resolutions of the SC34 Meeting, Orlando, 8–13 December 2001

 

SC 34

2001-12-19

N 287

Reserved for Recommendations of WG3, Orlando (not available)

 

 

 

N 288

Report of the Project for Revising ISO/IEC TR 9573-11

 

Y. Komachi

2002-1-23

N 289

December 2001 TMB Communique

 

ISO CS

2002-1-28

N 290

Summary of Voting on SC 34 N 236 - Draft Technical Corrigendum Ballot on ISO/IEC 15445:2000 – HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

 

SC 34 Secretariat

2002-1-28

N 291

National Body Comments on JCT 1 N 6599 - SC 34 Request for JTC 1 Approval of Category A Liaison Between the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and JTC 1/SC 34

 

JTC 1 Secretariat

2002-1-28

N 292

DISARM (Document Information Set Articulated Reference Model) Proposal

 

R. Jelliffe

2002-2-28

N 293

Meeting Announcement / Draft Agenda for the JTC 1/SC 34 Meeting, 18-22 May 2002, Barcelona, Spain

 

SC 34 Secretariat

2002-03-06

N 294

SC 34 Secretariats Report

 

SC 34 Secretariat

2002-03-08

 

5)     SC 34 ROSTER

Dr. David Abrahamson   
Trinity College            
Computer Science Department  
Dublin 2,                                
Ireland                             
TELEPHONE:+ 353 1 702 1716   
FAX:      + 353 1 677 2204   
E-MAIL:  david@cs.tcd.ie                            

Ms. Sharon Adler                                                      
Inso Corp.                                                           
One Richmond Square                              
Providence, RI  02906                            
USA                                              
TELEPHONE:+ 1 401 421 9550   
FAX:      + 1 401 421 9551   
E-MAIL:   sca@eps.inso.com             

 

Ms. Barbara Beeton   
American Mathematical Society                           
201  Charles Street                              
Providence, RI  02940                            
USA                                              
TELEPHONE:+ 1 401 455 4014   
FAX:      + 1 401 331 3842   
E-MAIL:   bnb@ams.org                                       
Dr. Anders Berglund                                                 
Berglund Consulting & Type Foundry                     
335 Shippee Road                                 
East Greenwich, RI  02818                         
USA                                              
TELEPHONE:+ 1 401 885 0471   
FAX:      + 1 401 885 0471   
E-MAIL:   alb@eps.inso.com                                 
Karl Best, Director of Technical Operations
OASIS
978.667.5115 x206
karl.best@oasis-open.org

Mr. Martin Bryan
The SGML Centre                                                      
29, Oldbury Orchard                              
Churchdown, Gloucester  GL3 2PU                  
United Kingdom                                   
TELEPHONE:+44 1452 714 029   
FAX:      +44 1452 714 029   
E-MAIL:   mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com  

                         
Mr. Norm Chenard                                                 
VicomMultimedia                                                      
2611 129 Ave.                                     
Edmonton, Alberta  T5A 3X7                       
Canada                                           
TELEPHONE:+1 403 452 4082    
FAX:      +1 403 452 4082    
E-MAIL:   nchenard@nereus.net                              
Mr. Mike Cowlishaw
IBM UK Laboratories, Ltd.                            
Mail Point 161, Hursley Park                     
Winchester, Hampshire  SO21 SJN                  
United Kingdom                                    
TELEPHONE:+ 44 962 844 433   
FAX:      + 44 1 962 842 327 
E-MAIL:   mfc@vnet.ibm.com              
                   
Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb                                          
Information Management Consulting                    
13075 Paramount Court                            
Saratoga, CA  95070                              
USA                                              
TELEPHONE:+ 1 408 867 5553   
FAX:      + 1 408 867 5794    
E-MAIL:   Charles@XMLHandbook.com     
                    
Ms. Sara Hafele
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
25 West 43rd Street                               
New York, NY  10036                              
USA                                              
TELEPHONE: +1 212 642 4937    
FAX:      +1 212 840 2298    
E-MAIL:   shafele@ansi.org             
                    
Mr. Eliot Kimber                                                      
eliot@isogen.com                                                     
TELEPHONE:                   
FAX:                         
E-MAIL:   eliot@isogen.
Dr. Yushi Komachi   
Panasoni/MGCS
2-3-8 Shimomeguro 
Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8687
Japan                                             
TELEPHONE:+ 81 3 5434 7053   
FAX:      + 81 3 5434 7158   
E-MAIL:   komachi@y-adagio.com

Dr. James Mason                                                      
Y-12 National Security Complex
Bldg. 9113, M.S. 8208
P.O. Box 2009
Oak Ridge, TN  37831-8208
USA                                              
TELEPHONE:   + 1 865 574 6973
FAX:      + 1 865 574 3868
E-MAIL:   mxm@y12.doe.gov

Mr. Terry O'Donnell                                
Adobe Systems, Inc.                           
1585 Charleston Road                             
Mountain View, CA  94039-7900                    
USA                                               
TELEPHONE:+ 1 415 962 3836   
FAX:      + 1 415 961 3769   
E-MAIL:   odonnell@adobe.com                               

Mr. Akinori Okubo                                                    
Ricoh Corp.                                                           
TELEPHONE:                   
FAX:                         
E-MAIL:   okubo@rdc.ricoh.co.jp                            

Mr. Steve Pepper                      
STEP Infotek A.S.                   
Gjerdrum's vei 12                                
Oslo, N-0486                                     
Norway                                           
TELEPHONE:+47 2202 1680      
FAX:      +47 2202 1681      
E-MAIL:   pepper@ontopia.net  

                       
Dr. Lynne Price                                                      
Text Structure Consulting, Inc.                               
17225 San Franciscan Drive                       
Castro Valley, CA  94552                         
USA                                              
TELEPHONE:+1 510 583 1505    
FAX:      +1 510 583 1505    
E-MAIL:   1price@txstruct.com            
                  
Dr. Hans Holger Rath                           
STEP Sturz Electronic Publishing GmbH                                
Technologiepark Wurzburg-Rimpar                  
Pavillion 7, D-97222 Rimpar                      
Germany                                          
TELEPHONE:+49 936 58 062 63  
FAX:      +49 936 58 062 66  
E-MAIL:   hhr@step.de                  
                    
Dr. Richard Strehlow                                               
Termco, Inc.   
5120 Kingston Pike                               
Knoxville, TN  37919                             
USA                                              
TELEPHONE:+1 615 584 8739    
FAX:                         
E-MAIL:   strehlow@usit.net                                 

 

6)      SC 34 Status Log          

ISO Reference Number

W G

Pub.

Status

P*

Title/Subject

Comments

Due Date

Project Editor/

Expert

8879: 1986

1

1986

90.93

 

Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

 

 

                               Charles Goldfarb

8879: 1986 / Amd 1

1

1986

60.60

 

Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

 

 

Charles Goldfarb

9069: 1988

1

1988

90.20

 

SGML support facilities - Document Interchange Format (SDIF)

Under JTC 1 Periodic Review

 

Charles Goldfarb

8879: 1986 / Cor 1: 1996

1

1996

60.60

 

Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) - Corrigendum 1

 

 

Charles Goldfarb

8879: 1986 / Cor 2: 1999

1

1999

60.60

 

Text and office systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) - Corrigendum 2

 

 

Charles Goldfarb

9070: 1991

1

1991

90.93

 

SGML support facilities - Registration procedures for public text owner identifiers

 

 

Charles Goldfarb

9541- 1: 1991

2

1991

90.93

 

Font information interchange - Part 1: Architecture

 

 

  Alan Greffee

9541- 1: 1991/ Cor 1: 1992

2

1992

60.60

 

Font information interchange - Part 1: Architecture -- Technical Corrigendum 1

 

 

Alan Greffee

9541- 1: 1991/ Cor 2: 1994

2

1994

60.60

 

Font information interchange -- Part 1: Architecture -- Technical Corrigendum 2

 

 

Alan Greffee

9541- 1: 1991/ Cor 3: 1995

2

1995

60.60

 

Font information interchange -- Part 1: Architecture -- Technical Corrigendum 3

 

 

Alan Greffee

9541- 1: 1991/ Amd 1

2

2001

60.60

 

Font information interchange - Part 1: Architecture -- Amendment 1: Typeface design grouping

 

 

Yushi Komachi

9541- 1: 1991/ Amd 2: 1998

2

1998

60.60

 

Font information interchange -- Part 1: Architecture -- Amendment 2: Minor enhancements to the architecture to address font technology advances

 

 

Yushi Komachi

9541- 1: 1991/ Amd 3: 2000

2

2000

60.60

 

Font information interchange -- Part 1: Architecture -- Amendment 3: Multilingual extensions to font resource architecture

 

 

Yushi Komachi

9541- 2: 1991

2

1991

90.93

 

Font information interchange - Part 2: Interchange Format

 

 

Yushi Komachi

9541- 2: 1991/ Cor 1: 1993

2

1993

60.60

 

Font information interchange -- Part 2: Interchange Format -- Technical Corrigendum 1

 

 

Alan Greffee

9541- 2: 1991/ Cor 2: 1995

2

1995

60.60

 

Font information interchange -- Part 2: Interchange Format -- Technical Corrigendum 2

 

 

Alan Greffee

9541- 2: 1991/ Amd 1: 2000

2

2000

60.60

 

Font information interchange -- Part 2: Interchange Format -- Amendment 1: font technology advances

 

 

Yushi Komachi

9541- 3: 1994

2

1994

90.60

 

Font information interchange -- Part 3: Glyph shape representation

 

 

Terry O’Donnell

9541- 3: 1994/ PWI Amd 1

2

00.00

 

Font information interchange -- Part 3: Glyph shape representation -- Amendment 1

 

 

Yushi Komachi and

Juergen Willrodt

TR 9544: 1988 (type 2)

1

1988

60.60

 

Computer- assisted publishing - Vocabulary

 

 

R. Strehlow

TR 9573: 1988 (type 3)

1

1988

60.60

 

SGML support facilities -- Techniques for using SGML

 

 

 

TR 9573- 11: 1992 (type 3)

1

1992

60.60

 

SGML support facilities -- Techniques for using SGML -- Part 11: Application at ISO SGML -- Central Secretariat for International Standards and Application Technical reports

 

 

Yushi Komachi

TR 9573- 13: 1991 (type 3)

1

1991

60.60

 

SGML support facilities -- Techniques for using SGML -- Part 13: Public entity sets pour SGML -- for mathematics and science

 

 

Anders Berglund

10036: 1996

2

1996

60.60

 

Font information interchange -- Procedures for registration of font- related identifiers

 

 

Yushi Komachi

10036: 1996/ Cor 1

2

2001

60.60

 

Font information interchange -- Procedures for registration of font- related identifiers-- Technical Corrigendum 1

 

 

Yushi Komachi

TR 10037: 1991 (type 1)

1

 

60.60

 

SGML and Text- entry Systems -- Guidelines for SGML Syntax- Directed Editing Systems

 

 

Mike Colishaw

10179: 1996

2

1996

60.60

 

Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL)

 

 

Sharon Adler

10179: 1996/ Cor 1

2

2001

60.60

 

Document Style Semantics and Specification Language -- (DSSSL) -- Technical Corrigendum 1

 

 

Shigeru Kaida

10179: 1996/ CD Amd 1

2

2001

20.99

*

Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL) -- Amendment 1: Extensions to DSSSL

PDAM approved      (N 258). Disposition of comments N 281.

 

Shigeru Kaida

10180: 1995

2

1995

90.60

 

Standard Page Description Language (SPDL)

Steve Strasen

10180:  1995 / COR 1: 2001 2 2001

60.60

  Standard Page Description Language (SPDL)   Published 2001-10-15   Akinori Okubo

DIS 10743

3

 

40.60

*

Standard Music Description Language (SMDL)

Pending cancellation from ISO if no progression. Rec'd notice 2001/07

 

Steve Newcomb and Eliot Kimber

10744: 1997

3

1997

90.20

 

Hypermedia/ Time- based Structuring Language (HyTime)

Under JTC 1 Systematic Review

 

Charles Goldfarb

10744: 1997/ CD Amd 1

3

30.60

*

 Hypermedia/ Time- based Structuring Language (HyTime) -- Amendment 1

Pending cancellation from ISO if no progression. Rec'd notice 2001/07

 

Charles Goldfarb

13240: 2001

3

2001

60.60

 

Information technology -- Interchange Standard for Multimedia Interactive Documents (ISMID)

 

 

Norm Chenard

13250: 2000

3

2000

60.60

 

SGML Applications -- Topic Maps

 

 

Martin Bryan

13250:   Cor 1

3

 

30.92

*

Draft Technical Corrigendum Ballot on ISO/IEC 13250:2000 - Topic Maps Many comments received in summary of voting N260. Project leader requested to address all comments received when drafting revised text.  

WG3

13673: 2000

1

2000

60.60

 

Conformance testing for Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) systems

 

 

Lynn Price

TR 15413: 2001 (type 1)

2

2001

60.60

 

Font Services -- Abstract Services Definition

 

 

Yushi Komachi

15445: 2000

3

 

60.00

 

 HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

 

 

David Abrahamson

CD 18048

3

 

30.20

*

SGML Applications -- Topic Map Query Language (TMQL)

NP (N183) and PDTR (N186) were approved.  Comments received (N210) were forwarded on to the project leader to take into consideration when drafting the DTR.

Ann Wrightson

CD TR 18049

3

 

40.00

*

SGML Applications -- Topic Map Conceptual Model

NP (N184) and PDTR (N185) were approved.  Comments received (N209) were forwarded on to the project leader to take into consideration when drafting the DTR.

D. Rivers-Moore

CD 19756 3   30.00     Topic Map Constraint Language

NP approved N 256.  

WG 3

CD 19757 1   30.00     Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL) NP approved N 257.  

WG 1

TR 22250- 1

2

 

60.00

*

Text and office systems -- Regular Language Description for XML (RELAX) -- Part 1: RELAX Core

Document to be published, pending editorial issues within ISO.

 

Makoto Murata

TR 22250- 2 (fast track)

2  

00.20

  Regular Language Description for XML (RELAX)- Part 2: RELAX Namespace Balloted within JTC 1 - closes 2002-05-8  

Makoto Murata