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Introducing ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34

• Steve Pepper
• pepper.steve_at_gmail.com
• SN/K185, 2007-09-20

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Agenda

• History
• Scope
• Membership
• Organization
• Working Groups
• Projects
• DSDL
• Topic Maps
• How to participate

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History

• ca. 1980 (?) Experts Group on Computer Languages
  for Processing Text (EGCLPT)
• Chartered by TC 97, forerunner of JTC 1
• 1984 TC 97 reorganized as JTC 1
• EGCLPT becomes JTC 1/SC 18/WG 8
• Main focus ISO 8879 SGML fonts
• (The ODF Wars)
• 1998 SC 18 broken up
• WG 8 becomes JTC 1/WG4 for a few months
• Then JTC 1/SC 34
• Main focus ISO 13250 Topic Maps fonts and,
  latterly, DSDL

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Scope

• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34
• Document Description and Processing Languages
• Scope
• 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 structuring language and
  application resources
• APIs for document processing

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Membership (as of 2007-09-16)

• P Member Bodies (38)
• Bulgaria (BDS)
• Brazil (ABNT)
• Canada (SCC)
• Chile (INN)
• China (SAC)
• Colombia (ICONTEC)
• Côte-d'Ivoire (CODINORM)
• Cyprus (CYS)
• Czech Republic (CNI)
• Denmark (DS)
• Egypt (EOS)
• Finland (SFS)
• France (AFNOR)
• Germany (DIN)
• India (BIS)
• Italy (UNI)
• Japan (JISC)
• Kazakhstan (KAZMEMST)

• O Member Bodies (12)

• Australia (SA)
• Greece (ELOT)
• Hong Kong (HKSARG)
• Croatia (HZN)
• Hungary (MSXT)
• Indonesia (BSN)
• Ireland (NSAI)
• Israel (SII)
• Lithuania (LSD)
• Mexico (DGN)
• Spain (AENOR)
• Ukraine (DSSU)

• Korea, Republic of (KATS)
• Lebanon (LIBNOR)
• Malta (MSA)
• Netherlands (NEN)
• Norway (SN)
• New Zealand (SNZ)
• Pakistan (PSQCA)
• Poland (PKN)
• Romania (ASRO)
• Sri Lanka (SLSI)
• Sweden (SIS)
• Switzerland (SNV)
• Thailand (TISI)
• Turkey (TSE)
• Trinidad and Tobago (TTBS)
• United Kingdom (BSI)
• USA (ANSI)
• Venezuela (FONDONORMA)
• South Africa (SABS)

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Organization

• Secretariat
• Mr. Ken Holman, Standards Council of Canada (SCC)
• Ms. Toshiko Kimura, Japanese Industrial Standards
  Committee (JISC)
• Chairman
• Dr. James D. Mason (ANSI)
• Prof. Sam Oh (KATS) (to be confirmed)
• Subcommittees
• WG1 Markup Languages
• WG2 Information Presentation
• WG3 Information Association
• Information
• Web site at http//www.jtc1sc34.org
  (Secretariats Report)
• Regular correspondence by email from the
  Secretariat

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WG1 Markup Languages

• Convenor
• Mr. Martin Bryan (BSI)
• Responsible for
• Information description languages, principally
  the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
  and auxiliary standards relating to SGML subsets,
  APIs, testing and registration.
• SGML (ISO/IEC 8879)
• SDIF (ISO/IEC 9069 )
• Registration Procedures for SGML Public
  Identifiers (ISO/IEC 9070)
• Technical Reports 9573
• Conformance Testing for SGML Systems (ISO/IEC
  13673)
• APIs for document processing
• Document Schema Definition Languages - DSDL -
  (ISO/IEC 19757)

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WG2 Information Presentation

• Convenor
• Dr. Yushi Komachi (JISC)
• Responsible for
• producing standards for languages and resources
  for the description and processing of compound
  and hypermedia documents, including
• Document processing architecture and formatting
  for logical documents (DSSSL, etc.)
• Multilingual font information interchange and
  related services
• Final-form document architecture and page
  information interchange
• APIs for the above document processing

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WG3 Information Association

• Convenor
• Mr. Steve Pepper (SN)
• 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
• Information linking and addressing
• Time-based information management
• Representation of knowledge structures, indexes,
  etc.
• Management of behavioral components in
  interactive documents

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ISO 19757 DSDL

• Document Schema Description Languages
• Objective
• To bring together different validation-related
  tasks and expressions to form a single extensible
  framework
• Allow technologies to work in series or in
  parallel to produce a single or a set of
  validation results
• Accommodates validation technologies not yet
  designed or specified
• Project web site
• http//dsdl.org/
• Editors
• James Clark, Rick Jelliffe, Murata Makoto, Jeni
  Tennison, Martin Bryan, Alex Brown, a.o.

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ISO 19757 DSDL (cont.)

• Overview
• Regular-grammar-based validation RELAX NG
• Rule-based validation Schematron
• Namespace-based validation dispatching language
  NVDL
• Data Type Library Language DTLL
• Path-based integrity constraints
• Character Repertoire Description Language CRDL
• Document Schema Renaming Language DSRL
• Datatype- and Namespace-aware DTDs
• Validation Management

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Topic Maps

• Current work items
• ISO 13250 Topic Maps (7 parts)
• ISO 18048 Topic Maps Query Language
• ISO 19756 Topic Maps Constraint Language
• ISO TR 29111 Representing Dublin Core using
  Topic Maps
• Purpose
• To define the representation and interchange of
  knowledge structures used for indexing
  information
• Project web site
• http//www.isotopicmaps.org/

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ISO 13250 Topic Maps

• ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps
• Part 1 Overview and Basic Concepts
• Part 2 Data Model
• Part 3 XML Syntax
• Part 4 Canonicalization
• Part 5 Reference Model
• Part 6 Compact Syntax
• Part 7 Graphical Notation
• ISO/IEC 18048 Topic Maps Query Language
• ISO/IEC 19756 Topic Maps Constraint Language
• ISO/IEC TR 29111
• Expressing Dublin Core Metadata Using Topic Maps

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Plans for additional work items

• RDFTM Interoperability
• Published Subjects
• Remote Access Protocol
• RDBMS mapping
• ...
• Editors
• Robert Barta, Patrick Durusau, Lars Marius
  Garshol, Lars Heuer, Gabriel Hopmans, Jaeho Lee,
  Graham Moore, Motom Naito, Steve Newcomb, Sam Oh,
  Steve Pepper, a.o.

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Topic Maps in Norway

• Norwegian experts have played a leading role
• Norwegian market among the most advanced
• public sector portals, knowledge management
• Active users group in DND
• Regular meetings next one
• Topic Maps, Dublin Core and Subject-centric
  Computing
• Sep 25 2007, 16.00 at Bouvet AS, Sandakerveien
  24c (D11)
• Annual conferences since 2002
• Next conference Topic Maps 2008
• The Second International Topic Maps Users
  Conference
• April 2-5 2008, Oslo

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How to participate in SC34

• Get involved in the Working Groups
• Next WG3 meeting Leipzig, October
  1314(collocated with TMRA 2007, see
  http//www.tmra.de)
• Attend Plenary and Working Group Meetings
• Next SC34 plenary Kyoto, December 811
  (collocated with Asian Topic Maps Summit, AToMS
  2007)
• Provide feedback on Drafts
• Read the regular updates from the Secretariat
• Help promote SC34s standards
• For example, by sponsoring Topic Maps 2008
• K185 members are cordially invited to join the
  organizing and program committees

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Topic Maps 2008

• The Oslo Topic Maps conference now in its 6th
  year
• Organized by DND (Norwegian Computer Users
  Society)
• April 2-5 2008, Hotel Bristol, Oslo (300
  participants expected)
• Currently looking for a high-powered keynote
  speaker
• Join the Organizing Committee!
• Marketing expertise particularly sought after
• Meeting Sep 25 1400, Bouvet AS, Sandakerveien
  24c (D11)
• Or join the Program Committee!
• Meeting Week 39 http//www.doodle.ch/9k6v335ep6d
  fz69a
• Or at least become a sponsor!
• Contact Sylvia Schwab (sylvia.schwab_at_gmail.com)

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Upcoming ballots

• 2007-10-04 IS 19757-22003
• N0872 (DCOR) DSDL Part 2 Regular-grammar-based
  validation -- RELAX NG
• 2007-10-04 FDIS 19757-4
• N0874 (DCOR) DSDL Part 4 Namespace-based
  Validation Dispatching Language (NVDL)
• 2007-11-06 PDAM TR 9573-11/Amd.1
• N0901 (PDAM) SGML support facilities - Part 11
  Structure descriptions and style specifications
  for standards document interchange Amendment 1
  Authoring structure and style specification
• 2007-11-10 Ballot
• N0907 (Letter) Category A Liaison with the XML
  Guild
• 2007-11-16 Second FCD 19757-8
• N0894 (FCD) DSDL Part 8 Document Schema Renaming
  Language (DSRL)
• 2007-12-05 FCD 19757-9
• N0898 (FCD) DSDL Part 9 Namespace- and
  datatype-aware DTDs
• 2007-12-09 CD 13250-6
• N0905 (CD) Topic Maps - Compact Syntax (CTM)
• 2007-12-10 PDTR 29111
• N0906 (PDTR) Expressing Dublin Core Metadata
  using Topic Maps

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Summary of dates

• September
• 2007-09-25 Board meeting, Topic Maps Users Group,
  Oslo
• 2007-09-25 Member meeting, Topic Maps Users
  Group, Oslo
• 2007-09-?26 Program Committee meeting, TM2008,
  Oslo
• October
• 2007-10-01 Ballot comment deadline RELAX NG,
  NVDL, 9573-11
• 2007-10-13/14 WG3 meeting, Leipzig
• November
• 2007-11-01 Ballot comment deadline DSRL, XML
  Guild
• December
• 2007-12-01 Ballot comment deadline CTM, DCTM,
  DTD
• 2007-12-08/11 SC34 plenary and WG meetings, Kyoto
• 2008-04-02/4 Topic Maps 2008 Conference, Oslo