ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, Document description and processing languages is a subcommittee of the ISO/IEC JTC1 joint technical committee, which is a collaborative effort of both the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission, which develops and facilitates standards within the field of document description and processing languages. The international secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 is the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC) located in Japan. [1]
The scope of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 is as follows. Standardization in the field of document structures, languages and related facilities for the description and processing of compound and hypermedia documents, including:
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 is made up of four active working groups, each of which carries out specific tasks in standards development within the field of document description and processing languages. As a response to changing standardization needs, working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 can be disbanded if their area of work is no longer applicable, or established if new working areas arise. The focus of each working group is described in the group’s terms of reference. Active working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 are: [3] [4]
Working Group | Working Area |
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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG 4 | Office Open XML |
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG 6 | OpenDocument Format |
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/JWG 7 | Joint JTC 1/SC 34-ISO/TC 46/SC 4-IEC/TC 100/TA 10 WG: EPUB |
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG 8 | Document processing and presentation |
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 works in close collaboration with a number of other organizations or subcommittees, both internal and external to ISO or IEC, in order to avoid conflicting or duplicative work. Organizations internal to ISO or IEC that collaborate with or are in liaison to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 include: [5]
Some organizations external to ISO or IEC that collaborate with or are in liaison to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 include:
Countries pay a fee to ISO to be members of subcommittees. [6]
The 26 "P" (participating) members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 are: Armenia, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, and United States.
The 30 "O" (observing) members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 are: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, and Ukraine.
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 currently has 70 published standards within the field of document description and processing languages, including: [7]
Acronym or Common Name | Part | ISO/IEC standard | First public release date (First edition) | Title | Description |
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SGML | ISO 8879 | 1986 | Information processing—Text and office systems—Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) | ||
SGML support facilities | ISO 9069 | 1988 | Information processing—SGML support facilities—SGML Document Interchange Format (SDIF) | ||
SGML support facilities | ISO/IEC 9070 | 1991 | Information technology—SGML support facilities—Registration procedures for public text owner identifiers | ||
SGML support facilities | ISO/IEC TR 9573 | 1988 | Information processing—SGML support facilities—Techniques for using SGML | ||
SGML support facilities | Part 11 | ISO/IEC TR 9573-11 | 2004 | Information processing—SGML support facilities—Part 11: Structure descriptions and style specifications for standards document interchange | |
SGML support facilities | Part 13 | ISO/IEC TR 9573-13 | 1991 | Information technology—SGML support facilities—Techniques for using SGML—Part 13: Public entity sets for mathematics and science | |
SGML and Text-entry Systems | ISO/IEC TR 10037 | 1991 | Information technology—SGML and Text-entry Systems—Guidelines for SGML Syntax-Directed Editing Systems | ||
SGML - Conformance testing | ISO/IEC 13673 | 2000 | Information technology—Document processing and related communication—Conformance testing for Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) systems | ||
Font information interchange | Part 1 | ISO/IEC 9541-1 | 1991 | Information technology—Font information interchange—Part 1: Architecture | |
Font information interchange | Part 2 | ISO/IEC 9541-2 | 1991 | Information technology—Font information interchange—Part 2: Interchange format | |
Font information interchange | Part 3 | ISO/IEC 9541-3 | 1994 | Information technology—Font information interchange—Part 3: Glyph shape representation | |
Font information interchange | Part 4 | ISO/IEC 9541-4 | 2009 | Information technology—Font information interchange—Part 4: Harmonization to Open Font Format | (Harmonization to MPEG-4 Part 22, a.k.a. OpenType) |
Font information interchange | ISO/IEC 10036 | 1993 | Information technology—Font information interchange—Procedures for registration of font-related identifiers | ||
Font services | ISO/IEC TR 15413 | 2001 | Information technology—Font services—Abstract service definition | ||
DSSSL | ISO/IEC 10179 | 1996 | Information technology—Processing languages—Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL) | ||
SPDL | ISO/IEC 10180 | 1995 | Information technology—Processing languages—Standard Page Description Language (SPDL) | ||
HyTime | ISO/IEC 10744 | 1992 | Information technology—Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime) | ||
Topic Maps | ISO/IEC 13250 | 2000 | Information technology—SGML Applications—Topic Maps | ||
Topic Maps | Part 2 | ISO/IEC 13250-2 | 2006 | Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 2: Data model | |
Topic Maps | Part 3 | ISO/IEC 13250-3 | 2007 | Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 3: XML syntax | |
Topic Maps | Part 4 | ISO/IEC 13250-4 | 2009 | Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 4: Canonicalization | |
Topic Maps | Part 5 | ISO/IEC 13250-5 | 2015 | Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 5: Reference model | |
Topic Maps | Part 6 | ISO/IEC 13250-6 | 2010 | Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 6: Compact Syntax | |
HTML | ISO/IEC 15445 | 2000 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—HyperText Markup Language (HTML) | ||
DSDL | Part 2 | ISO/IEC 19757-2 | 2003 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL) -- Part 2: Regular-grammar-based validation -- RELAX NG | |
DSDL | Part 3 | ISO/IEC 19757-3 | 2006 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 3: Rule-based validation -- Schematron | |
DSDL | Part 4 | ISO/IEC 19757-4 | 2006 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 4: Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language (NVDL) | |
DSDL | Part 5 | ISO/IEC 19757-5 | 2011 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 5: Extensible Datatypes | |
DSDL | Part 7 | ISO/IEC 19757-7 | 2009 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 7: Character Repertoire Description Language (CREPDL) | |
DSDL | Part 8 | ISO/IEC 19757-8 | 2008 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 8: Document Semantics Renaming Language (DSRL) | |
DSDL | Part 9 | ISO/IEC 19757-9 | 2008 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 9: Namespace and datatype declaration in Document Type Definitions (DTDs) | |
DSDL | Part 11 | ISO/IEC 19757-11 | 2011 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 11: Schema Association | |
DSSSL library for complex compositions | ISO/IEC TR 19758 | 2003 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—DSSSL library for complex compositions | ||
Document Container File | Part 1 | ISO/IEC 21320-1 | 2015 | Information technology—Document Container File—Part 1: Core | Based on ZIP file format [9] |
RELAX | Part 1 | ISO/IEC TR 22250-1 | 2002 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Regular Language Description for XML (RELAX) -- Part 1: RELAX Core | |
OpenDocument (ODF) | v1.0 | ISO/IEC 26300 | 2006 | Information technology—Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0 | |
OpenDocument (ODF) | v1.1 | ISO/IEC 26300/Amd 1 | 2012 | Information technology—Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Amendment 1: Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.1 | |
OpenDocument (ODF) | v1.2 | ISO/IEC 26300-1/3 | 2015 | Information technology -- Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.2 – Part 1: OpenDocument Schema; Part 2: Recalculated Formula (OpenFormula) Format; Part 3: Packages | |
ODF / OOXML Translation Guidelines [10] [11] | ISO/IEC TR 29166 | 2011 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Guidelines for translation between ISO/IEC 26300 and ISO/IEC 29500 document formats | ||
Office Open XML (OOXML) | Part 1 | ISO/IEC 29500-1 | 2008 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Office Open XML File Formats—Part 1: Fundamentals and Markup Language Reference | |
OOXML | Part 2 | ISO/IEC 29500-2 | 2008 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Office Open XML File Formats—Part 2: Open Packaging Conventions | |
OOXML | Part 3 | ISO/IEC 29500-3 | 2008 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Office Open XML File Formats—Part 3: Markup Compatibility and Extensibility | |
OOXML | Part 4 | ISO/IEC 29500-4 | 2008 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Office Open XML File Formats—Part 4: Transitional Migration Features | |
Extensions of Office Open XML File Formats | Part 1 | ISO/IEC CD 30114-1 | Under development | Information technology-Extensions of Office Open XML File Formats-Part 1: Guidelines | (previous title: Safe extensions of office open XML file formats) |
Extensions of Office Open XML File Formats | Part 2 | ISO/IEC CD 30114-2 | Under development | Information technology-Extensions of Office Open XML-Part 2: Character Repertoire Checking | |
EPUB3 | Part 1 to 7 | ISO/IEC TS 30135-1 | 2014 | Information technology - Digital publishing - EPUB3 - Part 1: EPUB3 Overview; Part 2: Publications; Part 3: Content Documents; Part 4: Open Container Format; Part 5: Media Overlay; Part 6: EPUB Canonical Fragment Identifier; Part 7: EPUB3 Fixed-Layout Documents |
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HyTime is a markup language that is an application of SGML. HyTime defines a set of hypertext-oriented element types that, in effect, supplement SGML and allow SGML document authors to build hypertext and multimedia presentations in a standardized way.
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