ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N0349

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34

TITLE:	OASIS Liaison Report to JTC 1/SC 34
SOURCE:	K. Best
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ACTION:	For review and comment
DATE:	22 November 2002
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DISTRIBUTION:	SC34 and Liaisons
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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: +1 865 574-6973 Facsimile: +1 865 574-1896 E-mail: mailto:mxm@y12.doe.gov http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/sc34oldhome.htm Ms. Sara Hafele Desautels, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat American National Standards Institute 25 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Tel: +1 212 642-4937 Fax: +1 212 840-2298 E-mail: sdesaute@ansi.org

OASIS has a few TCs whose work applies to SC34, specificall the RELAX TC

and the three TopicMaps TCs. I was unable to get a status report from

RELAX; I suspect that James Clark will be at the SC34 meeting and will

be able to report himself. As to the TopicMap TCs I have received the

following from the TC chairs:

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Topic Maps Published Subjects Technical Committee (PubSubj TC) is

setting general recommendations for definition, documentation,

management and use of Published Subjects, as defined by Topic Maps ISO

13250, a standard developed by JTC1/SC34/WG3. The primary scope of use

of PubSubj TC work is therefore Topic Maps interoperability, secondary

targets being various Semantic Web applications.

Close coordination between SC34/WG3 and PubSubj TC is ensured by a wide

overlap between members of the two working groups.

PubSubj TC first recommendation is in the stage of final draft. This

draft has been designed to be as much conformant as possible with ISO

13250 concepts and terminology. The other way round, feedback from

PubSubj TC reflection has been taken into account in the current draft

of Topic Maps Standard Application Model, in discussion in SC34/WG3.

-Bernard Vatant

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The GeoLang TC is creating published subjects for geographical and

linguistic concepts based on existing sets of codes such as ISO 639

and ISO 3166. These published subjects are intended to be used in

topic map applications based on ISO/IEC 13250, but also in RDF

applications.

GeoLang is a user of some of the standards produced by SC34 (at the

moment, and probably also in the future, only ISO 13250). GeoLang does

not expect to provide any direct feedback to SC34 on these standards,

but may do so through the PubSubj TC.

- Lars Marius Garshol