ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 N0062

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34—Document Description and Processing Languages

Title:

Recommendations of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Meeting, Granada Spain, 19–23 April 1999

Source:

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34

Project:

All ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 projects

Project editor:

All ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 project editors

Status of document:

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 approved recommendations

Requested action:

For information

Date

23 April 1999

Distribution:

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 and liaisons

Recommendations of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 Meeting,
Granada Spain, 19–23 April 1999

Resolution 1: Approval of JTC 1/SC 34 Chairman

JTC 1/SC 34 approves Dr. James Mason as Chairman of JTC 1/SC 34 for a three-year term of office ending with the 2002 JTC 1/SC 34 Meeting.

Resolution 2: Approval of WG Conveners and Terms of Reference

JTC 1/SC 34 approves the following WG Conveners and Terms of Reference:

WG 1: Markup Languages

Convener: Charles Goldfarb

Terms of Reference:

SC34/WG1 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 TR 9573
  5. Conformance Testing for SGML System (DIS 13673)
  6. APIs for document processing

WG 2: Information Presentation

Convener: Yushi Komachi

Terms of Reference:

SC34/WG2 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. 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 3: Information Association

Convener: Steve Pepper

Terms of Reference:

SC34/WG3 shall perform its activities within the following scope and terms of reference:

To produce 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

Resolution 3: Liaison Statements

SC 34 Number

Topic

Recipient

N66

JTC 1/SC 34 Multimedia Issues

JTC 1/SC24, SC29

N80

ISO-IEC/UN-ECE MG on EC

JTC 1

 

Resolution 4: SC 34 Texts for Ballot

JTC 1/SC 34 approves the following texts for PDAM/FPDAM/CD/FCD registration and ballot:

ISO/IEC FCD 13240

Information Technology - Interchange Standard for Multimedia Interactive Documents (ISMID)

ISO/IEC 9541-1/PDAM 3

Information Technology - Font Information Interchange - Part 1: Architecture - Amendment 3: Multilingual Extensions to font resource architecture

ISO/IEC 9541-2/PDAM 1

Information Technology - Font Information Interchange - Part 2: Interchange Format - Amendment 1: Support for Font Technology Advances

ISO/IEC TR9573-13

Proposed Technical Corrigendum to SGML entity set ISOAMSB (ISO TR9573-13:1991

Resolution 5: Approval of Program of Work, Target Dates and Project Editor Assignments

JTC 1/SC 34 approves the Program of Work, Target Dates and Project Editor Assignments contained in SC 34 N 49, as revised at its Plenary.

Resolution 6: Cancellation of Projects

JTC 1/SC 34 cancels the following project and requests that the SC 34 Secretariat remove it from the Program of Work:

1.34.15.07.02.15

ISO/IEC 9573-15

IT- SGML Support Facilities – Techniques for Using SGML – Part 15: Public Entity Sets for Non-Latin Alphabets

Resolution 7: Approval of New Work Item Proposal

SC34 approves the New Work Item Proposal for Product Data Markup Language, SC34 N81 and transmits it to JTC1 for processing. SC 34 expects this project to be developed jointly with TC184/SC4, with editors from each group.

Resolution 8: Endorsement of WG Recommendations

JTC 1/SC 34 endorses the WG1, WG 2, and WG 3 Reports and Recommendations approved at the April 1999 Working Group meetings in Granada, Spain.

Resolution 9: JTC 1/SC 34 Future Meetings

SC 34 approves the following tentative meeting schedule:

Monday (p.m.), 29 November—3 December 1999

Philadelphia, PA

SC 34 Plenary and Working Group Meetings

June 2000

Europe

SC 34 Plenary and Working Group Meetings

 

Resolution 10: Position Papers for JTC1

SC34 requests that David Abrahamson and Roger Price draft a position paper on the issues of ownership of text, copyright, and access to texts and that Jerry Smith draft a position paper on the issues of collaboration with other organizations, particularly as it affects ownership of and access to texts. These documents should be distributed to the SC34 Chairman and Working Group Convenors over the course of the summer for the purpose of completing texts that can be submitted to the JTC1 Plenary.

Acclamations

Resolution A1: Hosting of Meeting

SC 34 expresses its appreciation to the Graphic Communications Association for hosting the Second SC 34 Plenary Meeting in Granada, Spain.

Resolution A2: Appreciation to SC 34 Chairman

JTC1/SC 34 thanks Dr. Jim Mason, the SC 34 Chairman, for the leadership and support he provided at the SC 34 meeting.

Resolution A3: Drafting Committee Appreciation

JTC1/SC 34 thanks its drafting committee, consisting of Yushi Komachi, Doris Bernardini and Marisa Topping for their effort in developing the SC 34 resolutions.