ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N0273

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34

Information Technology --

Document Description and Processing Languages

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)  

          ‘O’ Member Bodies (4)  

  2)      Liaisons            

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)