ISO/IEC /JTC 1 /SC 34
Part II: Administrative
1.- Title of SubCommittee
Document Description and Processing Languages
Chairman: Dr. James Mason
Secretariat: Ms. Marisa Peacock
2.- Area of Work
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 sturcutring language and application resources
-API's for document processing
3.- Membership
P National Body:
Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
Denmark
France
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands, The
Norway
USA
United Kingdom
O National Body:
Czech Republic
Germany
Sweden
Liaisons:
ISO TC 046 Information and
Documentation
ISO TC 184 SC 04 Industrial Data and Global
Manufacturing Languages
ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 32 Data Management and
Interchange
External Liaisons:
Category: A SGML U G SGML Users Group
Category: C W3C World Wide Web Consortia
4.- Working Group/Special Working Group Structure
WG 01 Markup Languages
Convener Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb
Markup Languages
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 02 Information Presentation
Convener Dr. Yushi Komachi
Information Presentation
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 processings
WG 03 Information Association
Convener Mr. Steve Pepper
Information Association
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 behavioural components in interactive documents