JTC 1/SC 34 - Document Description and Processing Languages

SC 34 Prague Resolutions, March 2009

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 is the  international standardization subcommittee for Document Description and Processing Languages standards and technical reports related to structured markup languages (specifically the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and the Extensible Markup Language (XML)) in the areas of information description, processing and association.

0. CHAIRMAN

At the JTC 1 Plenary Meeting held in Nara, Japan, November 2008, Dr. Sam Oh was appointed as the SC 34 Chairman for a three-year term of office.

Dr. Sam Gyun OH
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 37 Participating (P) Members, 19 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

Teleconferences Schedule and Agenda:

• WG 1: N 1346
• WG 4: N 1349
• WG 6: N 1340
  

2010-03-22/26: Stockholm, Sweden (Plenary & all WGs)

• Logistic Information: N 1333
• Plenary Agenda: N 1330
• WG 1 Agenda: N 1360
• WG 2 Agenda: N
• WG 3 Agenda: N
• WG 4 Agenda: N 1364
• WG 5 Agenda: N
• WG 6 Agenda: N

Stockholm meeting room allocation:

2010-09: South Africa (Plenary & all WGs)

3.2 Past Meeting

4. WORKING GROUPS

4.1 WG 1: Markup Languages

Convener: Dr. Alex BROWN (UK)

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 (Japan)

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 (USA)

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

4.4 WG 4: Office Open XML

Convener: Dr. MURATA Makoto (Japan)

Secretariat: Ecma International (designated by JISC)

Terms of Reference:

• Maintenance of, and projects directly and exclusively related to, ISO/IEC 29500

Working group home page: http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc34/wg4

Document repository (Private) https://members.ecma-international.org/login_page.php

4.5 WG 5: Document Interoperability

Convener: Dr. Jaeho LEE (Republic of Korea)

Terms of Reference:

• Develop principles of, and guidelines for, interoperability among documents represented using heterogeneous ISO/IEC document file formats. The initial work includes preparation of the Technical Report on ISO/IEC 26300 / ISO/IEC 29500 translation.

4.6 WG 6:OpenDocument Format

Acting Convener: Mr. Francis CAVE (UK)

Scope and Terms of Reference:

• All SC 34 projects and activities relating to the maintenance of ISO/IEC 26300 OpenDocument Format.
  Collaboration with the OASIS ODF TC in the maintenance of and other work exclusively related to ISO/IEC 26300, in accordance with the maintenance principles and procedures jointly agreed by OASIS and JTC 1 (documents N 1148 and N 1149). This includes all projects and activities related to ISO/IEC 26300 previously carried out by WG 1 and Ad Hoc Group 3.

5. PROJECTS

• Published standards
• Programme of Work
• Project summary
  

6. PERSONNEL

• Officers

7. BALLOTS

• List of open ballots

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