Part II: Administrative

1.- Title of SubCommittee

Document Description and Processing Languages

Chairman: Dr. James Mason

Secretariat: Ms. Marisa Peacock

2.- Area of Work

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 sturcutring language and application resources

-API's for document processing

3.- Membership

P National Body:

Australia

Brazil

Canada

China

Denmark

France

Ireland

Italy

Japan

Netherlands, The

Norway

USA

United Kingdom

O National Body:

Czech Republic

Germany

Sweden

Liaisons:

ISO TC 046 Information and

Documentation

ISO TC 184 SC 04 Industrial Data and Global

Manufacturing Languages

ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 32 Data Management and

Interchange

External Liaisons:

Category: A SGML U G SGML Users Group

Category: C W3C World Wide Web Consortia

4.- Working Group/Special Working Group Structure

WG 01 Markup Languages

Convener Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb

Markup Languages

SC 34/WG 1 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 9573

5. Conformance Testing for SGML Systems (DIS 13673)

6. APIs for document processing

WG 02 Information Presentation

Convener Dr. Yushi Komachi

Information Presentation

SC 32/WG 2 is responsible for producing standards for languages

and resources for the description and processing of compounds 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 03 Information Association

Convener Mr. Steve Pepper

Information Association

SC 34/WG 3 is 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:

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