File updated 2 April 2007
Note: This site is maintained by the SC34 Chairman. Another site related to SC34 is maintained by the Secretariat at http://www.jtc1sc34.org. The Secretariat's site contains the most current version of the Secretariat Manager's Interim Report: http://www.jtc1sc34.org/document/secretariat_temp.html
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 is a component of ISO/IEC JTC1, which is a collaborative effort of both the International Organization for Standards and the International Electrotechnical Commission. ( JTC1 data at ISO site)
Standardization in the field of document structures, languages and related facilities for the description and processing of compound and hypermedia documents, including
SC34 has established three working groups.
Working Group 1 -- Information Description
Working Group 2 -- Information Presentation
Working Group 3 -- Information Association
For further information, please contact:
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Chairman
Dr.
James D. Mason
Y-12 National Security Complex
Building 9113, M.S.
8208
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 U.S.A.
Telephone: +1 865 574-6973
Facsimile: + 1 865 574-6784
Network: mailto:masonjd@y12.doe.gov
The SC34 Secretariat is hosted by the Standards Council of Canada for JTC1.
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Secretariat manager
Mr. G. Ken Holman
Crane Softwrights
Ltd.
1605 Mardick Court, Box 266
Kars, Ontario
Canada K0A-2E0
Telephone: +1 (613) 489-0999
Facsimile+1 (613) 489-0995 (Fax)
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http://www.jtc1sc34.org
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 and its prececesors ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 and ISO/IEC JTC1/WG4 have made parts of their library of documents, going back to the time WG8 was brought into ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18, available over the Internet. Many of the earliest documents are encoded in troff; later documents are in Microsoft Word. WG8 developed a DTD for its internal documents and made them available in SGML according to this application of SGML until a move was made to HTML. Some documents were also made available in the HTML application or in Word.
JTC1/SC34 is beginning operations with the assumption that documents will be made available in the HTML application of SGML.
SC34 also has a template in HTML for a standard SC34 document.
Notice: Some materials in the SC34 collection are under copyright by ISO, which expects them to be used only for the purposes of standards development. However, because the U.S. Department of Energy, has supported the development of SC34's standards and maintains this Web site (under contract DE-AC05-00OR22800), it makes the following assertion:
The U.S. Government retains a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of these documents, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, or to allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes.
Not all documents are available in electronic form. The Convenor maintains historical files of paper documents which are available for inspection. (SC34 no longer produces paper documents.)
These documents are available for downloading:
Master register (historical listing prior to July 1995) (Word 6, 218K), (HTML, 401K) (This register contain few links to document files because early documents were distributed in paper form only.)
Current registers (documents not yet in historical compilation, with some links to document files)
WG8 and SC34 documents (when available) are available as archives:
The Secretariat Manager's Interim Report will be updated from time to time between meetings. An official, numbered snapshot document will be made for SC34 Plenary meetings and entered into the register. The most immediate copy can be found at http://www.jtc1sc34.org/document/secretariat_temp.html.
SC34 N253
The Bloomingdale (Chicago) meeting was the first and organizational plenary of SC34.
The Paris meeting was the last meeting as JTC1/WG4.
The next Plenary of SC34 has been proposed for Kyoto, Japan, for November 2007. In the interim, meetings of WG1 and WG3 have been proposed in connection with Extreme Markup Languages in Montréal, the first week of August 2007.
The March 2007 meeting of SC34 will be held in Oslo, Norway, 22-24 March 2007. The Agenda N795 Draft for the meeting is available with additional site information. The Secretariat's site has additional information..
Not all the documents from SC34 and its predecessor organizations exist in electronic form. The collection of paper documents is being transferred to the Scholarly Technology Group at Brown University. How that collection will be made available will be subject to future announcements. Some documents (primarily meeting agendas and reports) do exist in electronic form. The Chairman's collection of electronic documents from JTC1/SC18/WG8 and JTC1/WG4 and from JTC1/SC34 is available online.
The current membership list is available at http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/membership/full.htm.
Final Text of ISO/IEC 19757-2 Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) — Part 2: Grammar-based validation — RELAX NG.
This site includes the final text of the second edition of HyTime. It is being made available with the understanding that it does not replace the printed document, which is available from ISO and the JTC1 National Bodies. The U.S. Department of Energy, having paid part of the expenses for the development of this standard, reserves a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to make these materials available for its purposes, including the promotion of the standard. (See the copyright statement, above.)
The source materials are in SGML This source takes precedence over all other forms of the document, including published paper versions of the standard.
The PostScript version has also been distilled into Acrobat format: N1920.pdf. Formatted from the SGML using Framemaker+SGML with the ISO Publishing system application.
This is the final text of DSSSL. It is being made available with the understanding that it does not replace the printed document, which is available from ISO and the JTC1 National Bodies. The U.S. Department of Energy, having paid part of the expenses for the development of this standard, reserves a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to make these materials available for its purposes, including the promotion of the standard. (See the copyright statement, above.)
The source materials are in SGML, with a DTD modified from that in ISO/IEC TR 9573-11. Graphics are in EPS.
The PostScript version has also been distilled into Acrobat format: ISO/IEC 10179 Front Matter and ISO/IEC 10179 Body