ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N0180

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34

Information Technology --

Document Description and Processing Languages

Title: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat Report
Source: Sara Hafele, Secretariat, JTC1/SC34
Project: All SC34 Projects
Project editor: All SC34 Editors
Status: For review and discussion under Agenda Item 11 and 12 at the 02-08 December 2000 JTC 1/SC 34 Plenary Meeting in Washington, DC. Any corrections should be submitted to the SC 34 Secretariat.
Action:
Date: 17 November 2000
Summary:
Distribution: SC34 and Liaisons
Refer to: (Part 1 of the Secretariat's Report is the SC 34 Business Plan - SC 34 N172)
Supercedes:
Reply to: Dr. James David Mason
(ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Chairman)
Y-12 National Security Complex
Information Technology Services
Bldg. 9113 M.S. 8208
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 U.S.A.
Telephone: +1 423 574-6973
Facsimile: +1 423 574-1896
E-mailk: mailto:mxm@y12.doe.gov
http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/sc34oldhome.htm

Ms. Sara Hafele, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat
American National Standards Institute
11 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Tel: +1 212 642 4976
Fax: +1 212 840 2298
E-mail: shafele@ansi.org

Part I: Business Plan

Note: The SC 34 Business Plan is contained in SC 34 N172

Part II: Administrative

 

1. Title of Subcommittee

Document Description and Processing Languages

Chairman: Dr. James Mason

Secretariat: Ms. Sara Hafele

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:

3. Membership

P National Body:

O National Body:

Liaisons:

External Liaisons:

4. Working Group/Special Working Group Structure

WG 01 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 02 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 processings

WG 03 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 behavioural components in interactive documents

Part III: Future Meetings

Group Dates Location
SC34/WG2 29-30 November 2000 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
SC34 2-7 December 2000 Wanshington, DC, U.S.A.
SC34 19-24 May 2001 Berlin, Germany

Part IV: Project Editors

Dr. David Abrahamson                                                  

COMPANY:
Trinity College                                                       

ADDRESS:
Computer Science Department                       
Dublin 2,                                         
Ireland                                           

TELEPHONE:+ 353 1 702 1716    
FAX:      + 353 1 677 2204    
E-MAIL:   david@cs.tcd.ie                                   

Project Editor:       (71.00.00.00.00)                                       

Ms. Sharon Adler                                                      

COMPANY:
Inso Corp.                                                            

ADDRESS:
One Richmond Square                               
Providence, RI  02906                             
USA                                               

TELEPHONE:+ 1 401 421 9550    
FAX:      + 1 401 421 9551    
E-MAIL:   sca@eps.inso.com                                  

Project Editor:       (15.06.01.00.00)                                       

Ms. Barbara Beeton                                                    

COMPANY:
American Mathematical Society                                         

ADDRESS:
201  Charles Street                               
Providence, RI  02940                             
USA                                               

TELEPHONE:+ 1 401 455 4014    
FAX:      + 1 401 331 3842    
E-MAIL:   bnb@ams.org                                       

Project Editor:       (27.05.00.00.00)                                      
 
Dr. Anders Berglund                                                   

COMPANY:
Berglund Consulting & Type Foundry                                    

ADDRESS:
335 Shippee Road                                  
East Greenwich, RI  02818                         
USA                                               

TELEPHONE:+ 1 401 885 0471    
FAX:      + 1 401 885 0471    
E-MAIL:   alb@eps.inso.com                                  

Project Editor:       (15.07.02.11.00)                                       
                      (15.07.02.13.00)                                       

Mr. Martin Bryan                                                      

COMPANY:
The SGML Centre                                                       

ADDRESS:
29, Oldbury Orchard                               
Churchdown, Gloucester  GL3 2PU                   
United Kingdom                                    

TELEPHONE:+44 1452 714 029    
FAX:      +44 1452 714 029    
E-MAIL:   mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com                            

Project Editor:       (15.07.02.09.00)                                       
                      (67.00.00.00.00)                                       

Mr. Norm Chenard                                                      

COMPANY:
VicomMultimedia                                                       

ADDRESS:
2611 129 Ave.                                     
Edmonton, Alberta  T5A 3X7                        
Canada                                            

TELEPHONE:+1 403 452 4082     
FAX:      +1 403 452 4082     
E-MAIL:   nchenard@nereus.net                               

Project Editor:       (43.00.00.00.00)                                      
 
Mr. Mike Cowlishaw                                                    

COMPANY:
IBM UK Laboratories, Ltd.                                             

ADDRESS:
Mail Point 161, Hursley Park                      
Winchester, Hampshire  SO21 SJN                   
United Kingdom                                    

TELEPHONE:+ 44 962 844 433    
FAX:      + 44 1 962 842 327  
E-MAIL:   mfc@vnet.ibm.com                                  

Project Editor:       (15.05.01.00.00)                                       

Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb                                               

COMPANY:
Information Management Consulting                                     

ADDRESS:
13075 Paramount Court                             
Saratoga, CA  95070                               
USA                                               

TELEPHONE:+ 1 408 867 5553    
FAX:      + 1 408 867 5794    
E-MAIL:   charles@sgmlsource.com                            

Convener:             ISO/IEC / JTC 1 / SC 34 / WG 01                        
Project Editor:       (15.01.00.00.00)                                       
                      (15.01.01.00.00)                                       
                      (15.07.01.00.00)                                       
                      (15.07.03.00.00)                                       
                      (39.02.00.00.00)                                       

Mr. Eliot Kimber                                                      

COMPANY:
eliot@isogen.com                                                      

ADDRESS:
                                                  
,                                                 
                                                  

TELEPHONE:                    
FAX:                          
E-MAIL:   eliot@isogen.com                                  

Project Editor:       (39.01.00.00.00) - Co-Editor - Steve Newcomb          
 
Dr. Yushi Komachi                                                     

COMPANY:
Panasoni/MGCS                                                         

ADDRESS:
2-3-8 Shimomeguro                                 
Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8687                        
Japan                                             

TELEPHONE:+ 81 3 5434 7053    
FAX:      + 81 3 5434 7158    
E-MAIL:   komachi@y-adagio.com                              

Convener:             ISO/IEC / JTC 1 / SC 34 / WG 02                        
Project Editor:       (27.01.01.00.00)                                       
                      (27.01.02.00.00)                                       
                      (33.01.00.00.00)                                       

Dr. James Mason                                                       

COMPANY:
Lockheed Martin Energy Systems                                        

ADDRESS:
Information Mgmt. Services
                    
Oak Ridge, TN  37831-6480                         
USA                                               

TELEPHONE:+ 1 423 574 6973    
FAX:      + 1 423 574 0004    
E-MAIL:   masonjd@ornl.gov                                  

Chairman:             ISO/IEC / JTC 1 / SC 34                                

Mr. Terry O'Donnell                                                   

COMPANY:
Adobe Systems, Inc.                                                   

ADDRESS:
1585 Charleston Road                              
Mountain View, CA  94039-7900                     
USA                                               

TELEPHONE:+ 1 415 962 3836    
FAX:      + 1 415 961 3769    
E-MAIL:   odonnell@adobe.com                                

Project Editor:       (27.03.00.00.00)                                      
 
Mr. Akinori Okubo                                                     

COMPANY:
Ricoh Corp.                                                           

ADDRESS:
                                                  
,                                                 
                                                  

TELEPHONE:                    
FAX:                          
E-MAIL:   okubo@rdc.ricoh.co.jp                             

Project Editor:       (15.06.02.00.00)                                       

Ms. Sara Hafele                                                       

COMPANY:
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)                          

ADDRESS:
11 West 42nd Street                               
New York, NY  10036                               
USA                                               

TELEPHONE:+1 212 642 4937     
FAX:      +1 212 840 2298     
E-MAIL:   shafele@ansi.org                                  

Secretariat:          ISO/IEC / JTC 1 / SC 34                                

Mr. Steve Pepper                                                      

COMPANY:
STEP Infotek A.S.                                                     

ADDRESS:
Gjerdrum's vei 12                                 
Oslo, N-0486                                      
Norway                                            

TELEPHONE:+47 2202 1680       
FAX:      +47 2202 1681       
E-MAIL:   pepper@infotek.no                                 

Convener:             ISO/IEC / JTC 1 / SC 34 / WG 03                       
 
Dr. Lynne Price                                                       

COMPANY:
Text Structure Consulting, Inc.                                       

ADDRESS:
17225 San Franciscan Drive                        
Castro Valley, CA  94552                          
USA                                               

TELEPHONE:+1 510 583 1505     
FAX:      +1 510 583 1505     
E-MAIL:   1price@txstruct.com                               

Project Editor:       (36.00.00.00.00)                                       

Dr. Hans Holger Rath                                                  

COMPANY:
STEP Sturz Electronic Publishing GmbH                                 

ADDRESS:
Technologiepark Wurzburg-Rimpar                   
Pavillion 7, D-97222 Rimpar                       
Germany                                           

TELEPHONE:+49 936 58 062 63   
FAX:      +49 936 58 062 66   
E-MAIL:   hhr@step.de                                       

Project Editor:       (15.07.02.13.01)                                       

Dr. Richard Strehlow                                                  

COMPANY:
Termco, Inc.                                                          

ADDRESS:
5120 Kingston Pike                                
Knoxville, TN  37919                              
USA                                               

TELEPHONE:+1 615 584 8739     
FAX:                          
E-MAIL:   strehlow@usit.net                                 

Project Editor:       (15.03.00.00.00)

Part V: Project Staus

                                             
  Committee and WG                     Target & Actual Dates
  Project #                            NP      CD     FCD    DIS/FDIS   IS
  ISO Designation
  Document N #
  Title
  Project Editor

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.01.00.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  86.10
  ISO 8879 : 1986
  Information Processing - Text
  and office systems - Standard
  Generalized Markup Language
  (SGML)
  Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.01.01.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  88.06
  ISO 8879 : 1986/AMD 1 : 1988
  Information Processing - Text
  and office systems - Standard
  Generalized Markup Language
  (SGML) - Amendment 1
  Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.01.02.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  96.06
  ISO 8879 : 1986/TC 1 : 1996
  Information Processing - Text
  and office systems - Standard
  Generalized Markup Language
  (SGML) - Technical Corrigendum
  1

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.01.03.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  99.06
  ISO 8879 : 1986/TC 2 : 1999
  Information Processing - Text
  and office systems - Standard
  Generalized Markup Language
  (SGML) - Technical Corrigendum
  2

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.03.00.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  88.07
  ISO TR 9544 : 1988
  Information Processing - Text
  and office systems -
  Computer-assisted publishing -
  Vocabulary (Type 2 TR)
  Dr. Richard Strehlow

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.05.01.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  91.03
  ISO/IEC TR 10037 : 1991
  Information technology - SGML
  and Text-entry systems -
  Guidelines for SGML
  Syntax-directed editing
  systems (Type 3 TR)
  Mr. Mike Cowlishaw

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.07.01.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  88.09  
  
  ISO 9069 : 1988
  Information processing - SGML
  Support facilities - SGML
  Document Interchange Format
  (SDIF)
  Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.07.02.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  88.06
  ISO/IEC TR 9573 : 1988
  Information Processing - SGML
  Support Facilities -
  Techniques for Using SGML
  (Type 3 TR)

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00    96.07   97.06   98.05  98.12
  15.07.02.09.00                       0.00    96.11    0.00    0.00   0.00
  ISO/IEC PDTR 9573-9
  Information technology - SGML
  Support Facilitiess -
  Techniques for using SGML -
  Part 9:  Using SGML for
  Computer to Computer
  Interchange
  Mr. Martin Bryan

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.07.02.11.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  91.07
  ISO/IEC TR 9573-11 : 1992
  Information technology - SGML
  Support Facilitiess -
  Techniques for using SGML -
  Part 11:  Application at ISO
  Central Secretariat for
  International Standards and
  Technical Reports
  Dr. Anders Berglund

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.07.02.13.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  91.07
  ISO/IEC TR 9573-13 : 1991
  Information technology - SGML
  Support Facilitiess -
  Techniques for using SGML -
  Part 13:  Public Entity Sets
  for Mathematics and Science
  Dr. Anders Berglund

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.07.02.13.01                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  ISO/IEC TR 9573-13 : 1991/DTC
  1
  SC 34 N63
  Information Technology - SGML
  Support Facilities -
  Techniques for Using SGML -
  Part 13:  Public Entity Sets
  for Mathematics and Science -
  Technical Corrigendum 1
  (Summary of Voting - SC 34 N
  93)
  Dr. Hans Holger Rath

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.07.03.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  91.04
  ISO/IEC 9070 : 1991
  Information Processing - SGML
  Support Facilities -
  Registration Procedures for
  Public Text Owner Identifiers
  Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb

  SC 34 / WG 01                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  36.00.00.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  00.04
  ISO/IEC 13673 : 2000
  Information Technology -
  Conformance Testing of SGML
  Systems
  Dr. Lynne Price

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.06.01.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  96.04
  ISO/IEC 10179 : 1996
  Information Technology - Text
  Composition - Document Style
  Semantics and Specification
  Language (DSSSL)
  Ms. Sharon Adler

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  Amendment 1 to                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  ISO/IEC 10179 : 1996
  Information Technology - Text
  Composition - Document Style
  Semantics and Specification
  Language (DSSSL)- Extensions to DSSL
  Mr. Shigeru Kaida

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  DTC 1 to                             0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  ISO/IEC 10179 : 1996 / SC 34 N 175
  Information Technology - Text
  Composition - Document Style
  Semantics and Specification
  Language (DSSSL)- Extensions to DSSL
  Mr. Shigeru Kaida
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  15.06.02.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  95.12
  ISO/IEC 10180 : 1995
  Information Technology - Text
  Composition - Standard Page
  Description Language (SPDL)
  Mr. Akinori Okubo

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  DTC 1 to	                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  ISO/IEC 10180 : 1995 / DTC 1 
  Information Technology - Text
  Composition - Standard Page
  Description Language (SPDL)
  Mr. Akinori Okubo

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  27.01.00.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  91.09
  ISO/IEC 9541-1 : 1991
  Information Technology - Font
  Information Interchange - Part
  1:  Architecture

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00    99.05    0.00   99.11  00.04
  27.01.01.00.00                       0.00    99.05    0.00    0.00   0.00
  ISO/IEC 9541-1 : 1991/DAM 1
  Information Technology - Font
  Information Interchange - Part
  1:  Architecture - Amendment
  1:  Typeface Design Grouping
  Dr. Yushi Komachi
  
  SC 34 / WG 02
  27.01.02.00.00
  ISO/IEC 9541-1 : 1991/AMEND 2
  : 1998
  Information Technology - Font
  Information Interchange - Part
  1:  Architecture - Amendment
  2:  Minor Enhancements to the
  Architecture to Address Font
  Technology Advances
  Dr. Yushi Komachi

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00    99.05   99.11   00.05   0.00
  27.01.03.00.00                       0.00     0.00   99.05   99.12   0.00
  ISO/IEC 9541-1 : 1991/PDAM 3
  SC 34 N115
  Information Technology - Font
  Information Interchange - Part
  1:  Architecture - Amendment
  3:  Multilingual extensions to
  font resource architecture
  (FDAM Text sent to ITTF on 20
  December 1999)

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  27.02.00.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  91.09
  ISO/IEC 9541-2 : 1991
  Information Technology - Font
  Information Interchange - Part
  2:  Interchange Format

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00    99.05   99.11   00.05   0.00
  27.02.01.00.00                       0.00    99.05   99.05   99.12   0.00
  ISO/IEC 9541-2 : 1991/PDAM 1
  SC 34 N116
  Information Technology - Font
  Information Interchange - Part
  2:  Interchange Format -
  Amendment 1:  Support for font
  technology advances
  (FDAM Text sent to ITTF on 20
  December 1999)

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  27.03.00.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  93.11
  ISO/IEC 9541-3 : 1993
  Information Technology - Font
  Information Interchange - Part
  3:  Glyph Shape Representation
  Mr. Terry O'Donnell

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00    96.06    0.00   96.12  97.05
  27.03.01.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  Information Technology - Font
  Information Interchange - Part
  3:  Glyph Shape Representation
  - Amendment 1:  Additional Shape Representation
  Dr. Yushi Komachi
  (Mr. Juergen Willrodt - co-editor)
  of Original Work to Define
  Multiple Shape Representation
  Technologies, including Bit
  Maps

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  27.04.00.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  96.06
  ISO/IEC 10036 : 1996
  Information Technology - Font
  Information Interchange -
  Procedure for Registration of
  Font-Related Identifiers

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  DTC 1 to 	                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  ISO/IEC 10036 : 1996
  Information Technology - Font
  Information Interchange -
  Procedure for Registration of
  Font-Related Identifiers - SC 34 N 174
  Dr. Yushi Komachi

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00    95.08    0.00   96.12  97.06
  27.05.00.00.00                       0.00    95.08    0.00    0.00   0.00
  ISO/IEC CD 9541-4
  Information Technology - Font
  Information Interchange - Part
  4:  Application-specific
  requirements (SC 18 N 5160 -
  last text)
  Ms. Barbara Beeton

  SC 34 / WG 02                        0.00     0.00    0.00   98.12  99.11
  33.01.00.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00   98.11   0.00
  ISO/IEC DTR 15413
  Information Technology - Font
  Services - Part 1:  Abstract
  Service Definition
  (Final Text sent to ITTF - SC
  34 N 108 - 24 November 1999)
  Dr. Yushi Komachi

  SC 34 / WG 03                        0.00    91.04    0.00   95.04  96.08
  39.01.00.00.00                       0.00    91.04    0.00   95.08   0.00
  ISO/IEC DIS 10743
  SC 34 N5165
  Information Technology -
  Standard Music Description
  Language (SMDL) (SC 18 N 5165
  - last text, WG 8 N 1799 -
  DoC)
  Steve Newcomb/Eliot Kimber

  SC 34 / WG 03                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  39.02.00.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  92.11
  ISO/IEC 10744 : 1997
  Information Technology -
  Hypermedia/Time-based
  Structuring Language (HyTime)
  Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb

  SC 34 / WG 03                        0.00     0.00   99.01   99.12  00.06
  43.00.00.00.00                       0.00     0.00   99.05    0.00   0.00
  ISO/IEC FCD 13240
  SC 34 N60
  Information Technology -
  Interchange Standard for
  Multimedia Interactive
  Documents (ISMID) (Co-Editor:
  David Cooper)
  (Summary of Voting - SC 34 N
  98)
  Mr. Norm Chenard

  SC 34 / WG 03                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  67.00.00.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  00.04
  ISO/IEC 13250 : 2000
  Information Technology - SGML
  Applications - Topic
  Navigation Maps

  Mr. Martin Bryan

  SC 34 / WG 03                        0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00
  71.00.00.00.00                       0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00  00.05
  ISO/IEC 15445 : 2000
  Information Technology -
  ISO-HTML


  Dr. David Abrahamson