ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34

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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]

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Scope

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:

Structure

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to changing standardization needs, working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 can be disbanded if their area of work is no longer applicable, or established if new working areas arise.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 GroupWorking Area
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 7Joint 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

Collaborations

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:

Member Countries

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.

Published Standards

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 currently has 70 published standards within the field of document description and processing languages, including: [7]

Some of the standards published and under development by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 [8]
Acronym or Common NamePartISO/IEC standardFirst public release date (First edition)TitleDescription
SGML ISO 8879 1986Information processing—Text and office systems—Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
SGML support facilities ISO 9069 1988Information processing—SGML support facilities—SGML Document Interchange Format (SDIF)
SGML support facilities ISO/IEC 9070 1991Information technology—SGML support facilities—Registration procedures for public text owner identifiers
SGML support facilities ISO/IEC TR 9573 1988Information processing—SGML support facilities—Techniques for using SGML
SGML support facilitiesPart 11 ISO/IEC TR 9573-11 2004Information processing—SGML support facilities—Part 11: Structure descriptions and style specifications for standards document interchange
SGML support facilitiesPart 13 ISO/IEC TR 9573-13 1991Information 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 1991Information technology—SGML and Text-entry Systems—Guidelines for SGML Syntax-Directed Editing Systems
SGML - Conformance testing ISO/IEC 13673 2000Information technology—Document processing and related communication—Conformance testing for Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) systems
Font information interchangePart 1 ISO/IEC 9541-1 1991Information technology—Font information interchange—Part 1: Architecture
Font information interchangePart 2 ISO/IEC 9541-2 1991Information technology—Font information interchange—Part 2: Interchange format
Font information interchangePart 3 ISO/IEC 9541-3 1994Information technology—Font information interchange—Part 3: Glyph shape representation
Font information interchangePart 4 ISO/IEC 9541-4 2009Information 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 1993Information technology—Font information interchange—Procedures for registration of font-related identifiers
Font services ISO/IEC TR 15413 2001Information technology—Font services—Abstract service definition
DSSSL ISO/IEC 10179 1996Information technology—Processing languages—Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL)
SPDL ISO/IEC 10180 1995Information technology—Processing languages—Standard Page Description Language (SPDL)
HyTime ISO/IEC 10744 1992Information technology—Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime)
Topic Maps ISO/IEC 13250 2000Information technology—SGML Applications—Topic Maps
Topic MapsPart 2 ISO/IEC 13250-2 2006Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 2: Data model
Topic MapsPart 3 ISO/IEC 13250-3 2007Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 3: XML syntax
Topic MapsPart 4 ISO/IEC 13250-4 2009Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 4: Canonicalization
Topic MapsPart 5 ISO/IEC 13250-5 2015Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 5: Reference model
Topic MapsPart 6 ISO/IEC 13250-6 2010Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 6: Compact Syntax
HTML ISO/IEC 15445 2000Information technology—Document description and processing languages—HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
DSDLPart 2 ISO/IEC 19757-2 2003Information technology—Document Schema Definition Language (DSDL) -- Part 2: Regular-grammar-based validation -- RELAX NG
DSDLPart 3 ISO/IEC 19757-3 2006Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 3: Rule-based validation -- Schematron
DSDLPart 4 ISO/IEC 19757-4 2006Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 4: Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language (NVDL)
DSDLPart 5 ISO/IEC 19757-5 2011Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 5: Extensible Datatypes
DSDLPart 7 ISO/IEC 19757-7 2009Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 7: Character Repertoire Description Language (CREPDL)
DSDLPart 8 ISO/IEC 19757-8 2008Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 8: Document Semantics Renaming Language (DSRL)
DSDLPart 9 ISO/IEC 19757-9 2008Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 9: Namespace and datatype declaration in Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
DSDLPart 11 ISO/IEC 19757-11 2011Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) -- Part 11: Schema Association
DSSSL library for complex compositions ISO/IEC TR 19758 2003Information technology—Document description and processing languages—DSSSL library for complex compositions
Document Container FilePart 1 ISO/IEC 21320-1 2015Information technology—Document Container File—Part 1: CoreBased on ZIP file format [9]
RELAX Part 1 ISO/IEC TR 22250-1 2002Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Regular Language Description for XML (RELAX) -- Part 1: RELAX Core
OpenDocument (ODF)v1.0 ISO/IEC 26300 2006Information technology—Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0
OpenDocument (ODF)v1.1 ISO/IEC 26300/Amd 1 2012Information 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 2015Information 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 2011Information 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 2008Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Office Open XML File Formats—Part 1: Fundamentals and Markup Language Reference
OOXMLPart 2 ISO/IEC 29500-2 2008Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Office Open XML File Formats—Part 2: Open Packaging Conventions
OOXMLPart 3 ISO/IEC 29500-3 2008Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Office Open XML File Formats—Part 3: Markup Compatibility and Extensibility
OOXMLPart 4 ISO/IEC 29500-4 2008Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Office Open XML File Formats—Part 4: Transitional Migration Features
Extensions of Office Open XML File FormatsPart 1 ISO/IEC CD 30114-1 Under developmentInformation 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 FormatsPart 2 ISO/IEC CD 30114-2 Under developmentInformation technology-Extensions of Office Open XML-Part 2: Character Repertoire Checking
EPUB3 Part 1 to 7 ISO/IEC TS 30135-1 2014Information 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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References

  1. ↑ "ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat". ISO. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
  2. ↑ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 (2014-10-13). SC34 Business Plan for the period covered October 2014 - September 2015 (Report).
  3. ↑ ISO. "JTC 1/SC 34 - Document description and processing languages". ISO. Retrieved 2009-12-25.
  4. ↑ ISO JTC1/SC34. "JTC 1/SC 34 - Document Description and Processing Languages". Archived from the original on 2014-05-06. Retrieved 2009-12-25.
  5. ↑ "ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Liaisons". ISO. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
  6. ↑ "ISO Technical Committee Participation". ISO. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
  7. ↑ "ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Standards Catalogue". ISO. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
  8. ↑ ISO. "JTC 1/SC 34 - Document description and processing languages". ISO. Retrieved 2009-12-25.
  9. ↑ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 N 1621 - Document Description and Processing Languages (PDF), 2011-04-06, archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-12, retrieved 2012-01-05
  10. ↑ ISO/IEC JTC 1 (2008-05-01), SC 34 Proposal for New Work Item on OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC26300) / Office Open XML (ISO/IEC 29500) Translation (PDF), retrieved 2009-12-25
  11. ↑ ISO/IEC JTC 1 (2009-09-26), SC 34 Business Plan, November 2008-September 2009 (PDF), ISO, retrieved 2009-12-25
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