ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 N1897

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8

Document Processing and Related Communication—

Document Description and Processing Languages

Title:

Meeting Notice and Draft Agenda, Regular Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8, Document Description and Processing Languages, 5 May–9 May 1997, Barcelona Spain

Source:

WG8

Project:

All WG8 projects

Status of Document:

Official meeting notice and draft agenda

Requested action:

For information

Summary of major points:

The First meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 in 1997 will be held at the Princesa Sofia Intercontinental Hotel in Barcelona, Spain.

This meeting will be after the SC18 Plenary in Istanbul (29 April–2 May) and before the GCA conference "SGML Europe" (Barcelona: see http://www.gca.org/conf/europe97/index.htm).

We do not yet know whether it will be necessary to collect a meeting fee.

Hotel and travel information is enclosed. Please make hotel reservations as soon as possible

There will be SWGs for SGML and Hypermedia at this meeting. This document also serves as the calling notice for those meetings.

Those bringing documents to the meeting should bring 25 copies.

Distribution:

WG8 and liaisons

Draft Agenda for May 1997

Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8

Document Description and Processing Languages

Dates: 5 May–9 May 1997

Location: Barcelona

Princesa Sofia Intercontinental Hotel

Plaça de XII, 0004

Barcelona, Spain

Telephone: +34 3 330 7111

Telefax: +34 3 330 7621

1. Opening Plenary (0900h–1100h, 5 May, Barcelona)

A. Opening of meeting

i. Roll call of delegates

ii. Convenor's remarks

B. Presentation of liaison reports

C. Presentation of national activity reports

D. Status reports on current projects

Project JTC1.18.15 Computer Languages for Processing Text

Work Item JTC1.18.15.1 ISO 8879 Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

Project Editor: Charles F. Goldfarb

Work Item JTC1.18.15.6 Text Composition

JTC1.18.15.6.1: ISO DIS 10179 Document Style Semantics and Specification Language

Project Editor: Sharon Adler

JTC1.18.15.6.2: ISO DIS 10180 Standard Page Description Language

Project Editors: Steve Zilles and Steve Strasen

Work Item JTC1.18.15.7 SGML Support Facilities—

General Editor: Charles F. Goldfarb

JTC1.18.15.7.1: ISO 9069 SGML Document Interchange Format (SDIF)

Project Editor: Charles F. Goldfarb

JTC1.18.15.7.2: TR 9573 Techniques for Using SGML

Project Editor: Anders Berglund

JTC1.18.15.7.3: ISO 9070 Registration Procedures for Public Text Owner Identifiers

Project Editor: Charles F. Goldfarb

Project JTC1.18.27 Description and Identification of Glyph Fonts

General Editor: Alan Griffee

Project JTC1.18.33 Font Services

Project Editor: Yushi Komachi

Project JTC1.18.36 ISO 13673 Conformance Testing for SGML Systems

Project Editor: Lynne Price

Project JTC1.18.39.1 DIS 10743 Standard Music Description Language (SMDL)

Project Editor: Charles Goldfarb

Project JTC1.18.39.2 ISO/IEC 10744 Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime)

Project Editor: Charles Goldfarb

Project JTC1.18.67 Topic Navigation Maps

Project Editor: Martin Bryan

Project JTC1.18. Standard HTML

Project Editor: David Abrahamson, Roger Price

E. Assignments to draft responses to liaison statements

2. Division into technical discussions (Monday, Barcelona)

Work Item JTC1.18.15.1 Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and related projects

Work Item JTC1.18.15.6 Text Composition—

JTC1.18.15.6.1 Document Style Semantics and Specification Language

JTC1.18.15.6.2 Standard Page Description Language

Work Item JTC1.18.27 Description and Identification of Glyph Fonts

3. Document distribution for closing plenary (optional: 1700 h, Thursday)

4. Closing plenary (0830–1200 h, 9 May)

A. Review of recommendations and documents for circulation to SC18 and liaisons

B. Review of priorities and schedules

C. Assignment of liaisons and editors

D. Review of meeting and assignment of work for next meeting

E. Place and date of next meeting

NOTE: Convenors of RGs should have documents which will be needed for the closing plenary ready for duplication at noon on Thursday and should be ready to indicate to the full working group at that time what items will be presented for decision (recommendations, liaison statements).

Hotel Information for Barcelona, May 1997

Hotel:

Princesa Sofia Intercontinental Hotel

Plaça de Pius XII, 0004

Barcelona, Spain

Telephone: +34 3 330 7111

Telefax: +34 3 330 7621

http://www.bcn.es/cgi-bin/dades/eqpkgAng.eq_veure('75990303345','E')

There is a map of the area linked to this page.

Room Rate:

A block of rooms is reserved under GCA, and the conference rate of 17,000 Ptas for single room, 19,000 Ptas for double room applies.

Please per night mention our host, the Graphic Communications Association and the conference "SGML Europe," when making reservations to get this rate.

Please also contact Mr. Marion Elledge (Graphic Communications Association, 100 Daingerfield Rd., Alexandria, VA 22314, U.S.A., Telephone: +1 703 519-8160, Facsimile: +1 703 548-2867, Internet: mle@gca.org) if you want more information about the conference.

Parking:

The hotel has parking available (or at least there is a parking facility showing nearby on the map).

Shuttle service:

At this point I do not have full details about transportation. The map appears to show a subway stop near the hotel.

General

For more information, try two Web sites on Barcelona:

The official city government site (in Catalan, but with a link to an English version): http://www.bcn.es/

The Spanish Tourist Agency site: http://www.spaintour.com/barcelona.html

There is a general site with information on Spain at http://www.DocuWeb.ca/SiSpain/ (Sponsored by the Spanish Embassy in Ottawa).