JTC1/WG4 N1973

TITLE : Activity Report of JTC1/WG4 Japan

SOURCE : Y. Komachi
STATUS : Document for the JTC1/WG4 meeting in Paris
REQUESTED ACTION : For Information
DATE : May 11, 1998
DISTRIBUTION : JTC1/WG4

1. SPDL Webpage

The web page of SPDL/Japan was relocated to

http://www.y-adagio.com/public/committees/SPDL/spdl.html

from http://www.olu.info.waseda.ac.jp/office/kago/spdl/ due to the disbandment of olu project.

2. Discussion and Documents

Members of WG4 Japan met once in a month and discussed several topics of

• Font services
• ISMID
• AM to HyTime
• TR 9573-9
• etc.

to clarify Japanese positions for the related ballots.

3. Letter Ballots and Comments

WG8 Japan reviewed voting or comments-requesting documents to draft Japan's position to

• TC1 N5137: Request for a Workshop on Guidelines for Accessing Data and Metadata Represented in SGML from Database, Knowledge Bases, and Search Tools
• JTC1 N5121: Proposal for a new work item on Font Services
• JTC1 N5122: Proposal for a new work item on Interchange Standard for Modifiable Interactive Documents
• JTC1 N5123: PDAM1 to ISO/IEC 10744:1997, HyTime
• JTC1 N5138: PDTR 9573-9, Using SGML Public Identifiers for Specifying Data Notations
• JTC1 N5226: Request for National Body Input on the Future Structure and Operation of JTC 1/WG 4

For the last item, particularly, a number of discussions took place to submit the following Japanese comments:

The future structure of JTC1/WG4 should configure a new SC containing several WG's to satisfy increasing user requirements, in particular, for documents interchange in a web environment. The SC should perform its activities on the following scope and terms of reference:

To produce standards for languages and resources for the description and processing of compound and hypermedia documents, including:

• 1. languages for describing document logical structures and their support facilities
• 2. languages for describing document-like objects in web environments
• 3. document processing architecture and formatting for logical documents
• 4. languages for describing interactive documents
• 5. multilingual font information interchange and related services
• 6. final-form document architecture and page information interchange
• 7. hypermedia document structuring language and application resources
• 8. API's for document processing.

4. JIS's (Japanese Industrial Standards)

The following JIS's were published: