ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, Document description and processing languages is a subcommittee of the ISO/IEC JTC 1 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 located in Japan.
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:- languages for 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
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to changing standardization needs, working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 can be disbanded if their area of work is no longer applicable, or established if new working areas arise.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:| Working Group | Working 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 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 |
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:- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2, Coded character sets
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29, Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36, Information technology for learning, education and training
- ISO/TC 46, Information and documentation
- ISO/TC 171, Document management applications
- ISO/TC 171/SC 2, Application issues
- ISO/TC 184/SC 4, Industrial data
- IEC/TC 100, Audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment
Member Countries
Countries pay a fee to ISO to be members of subcommittees.The 26 "P" 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" 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:| Acronym or Common Name | Part | ISO/IEC standard | First public release date | Title | Description |
| SGML | 1986 | Information processing—Text and office systems—Standard Generalized Markup Language | |||
| SGML support facilities | 1988 | Information processing—SGML support facilities—SGML Document Interchange Format | |||
| SGML support facilities | 1991 | Information technology—SGML support facilities—Registration procedures for public text owner identifiers | |||
| SGML support facilities | 1988 | Information processing—SGML support facilities—Techniques for using SGML | |||
| SGML support facilities | Part 11 | 2004 | Information processing—SGML support facilities—Part 11: Structure descriptions and style specifications for standards document interchange | ||
| SGML support facilities | Part 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 | 1991 | Information technology—SGML and Text-entry Systems—Guidelines for SGML Syntax-Directed Editing Systems | |||
| SGML - Conformance testing | 2000 | Information technology—Document processing and related communication—Conformance testing for Standard Generalized Markup Language systems | |||
| Font information interchange | Part 1 | 1991 | Information technology—Font information interchange—Part 1: Architecture | ||
| Font information interchange | Part 2 | 1991 | Information technology—Font information interchange—Part 2: Interchange format | ||
| Font information interchange | Part 3 | 1994 | Information technology—Font information interchange—Part 3: Glyph shape representation | ||
| Font information interchange | Part 4 | 2009 | Information technology—Font information interchange—Part 4: Harmonization to Open Font Format | ||
| Font information interchange | 1993 | Information technology—Font information interchange—Procedures for registration of font-related identifiers | |||
| Font services | 2001 | Information technology—Font services—Abstract service definition | |||
| DSSSL | 1996 | Information technology—Processing languages—Document Style Semantics and Specification Language | |||
| SPDL | 1995 | Information technology—Processing languages—Standard Page Description Language | |||
| HyTime | 1992 | Information technology—Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language | |||
| Topic Maps | 2000 | Information technology—SGML Applications—Topic Maps | |||
| Topic Maps | Part 2 | 2006 | Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 2: Data model | ||
| Topic Maps | Part 3 | 2007 | Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 3: XML syntax | ||
| Topic Maps | Part 4 | 2009 | Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 4: Canonicalization | ||
| Topic Maps | Part 5 | 2015 | Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 5: Reference model | ||
| Topic Maps | Part 6 | 2010 | Information technology—Topic Maps—Part 6: Compact Syntax | ||
| HTML | 2000 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—HyperText Markup Language | |||
| DSDL | Part 2 | 2003 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Language -- Part 2: Regular-grammar-based validation -- RELAX NG | ||
| DSDL | Part 3 | 2006 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages -- Part 3: Rule-based validation -- Schematron | ||
| DSDL | Part 4 | 2006 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages -- Part 4: Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language | ||
| DSDL | Part 5 | 2011 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages -- Part 5: Extensible Datatypes | ||
| DSDL | Part 7 | 2009 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages -- Part 7: Character Repertoire Description Language | ||
| DSDL | Part 8 | 2008 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages -- Part 8: Document Semantics Renaming Language | ||
| DSDL | Part 9 | 2008 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages -- Part 9: Namespace and datatype declaration in Document Type Definitions | ||
| DSDL | Part 11 | 2011 | Information technology—Document Schema Definition Languages -- Part 11: Schema Association | ||
| DSSSL library for complex compositions | 2003 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—DSSSL library for complex compositions | |||
| Document Container File | Part 1 | 2015 | Information technology—Document Container File—Part 1: Core | Based on ZIP file format | |
| RELAX | Part 1 | 2002 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Regular Language Description for XML -- Part 1: RELAX Core | ||
| OpenDocument | v1.0 | 2006 | Information technology—Open Document Format for Office Applications v1.0 | ||
| OpenDocument | v1.1 | 2012 | Information technology—Open Document Format for Office Applications Amendment 1: Open Document Format for Office Applications v1.1 | ||
| OpenDocument | v1.2 | 2015 | Information technology -- Open Document Format for Office Applications v1.2 – Part 1: OpenDocument Schema; Part 2: Recalculated Formula Format; Part 3: Packages | ||
| ODF / OOXML Translation Guidelines | 2011 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Guidelines for translation between ISO/IEC 26300 and ISO/IEC 29500 document formats | |||
| Office Open XML | Part 1 | 2008 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Office Open XML File Formats—Part 1: Fundamentals and Markup Language Reference | ||
| OOXML | Part 2 | 2008 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Office Open XML File Formats—Part 2: Open Packaging Conventions | ||
| OOXML | Part 3 | 2008 | Information technology—Document description and processing languages—Office Open XML File Formats—Part 3: Markup Compatibility and Extensibility | ||
| OOXML | Part 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 | Under development | Information technology-Extensions of Office Open XML File Formats-Part 1: Guidelines | ||
| Extensions of Office Open XML File Formats | Part 2 | Under development | Information technology-Extensions of Office Open XML-Part 2: Character Repertoire Checking | ||
| EPUB3 | Part 1 to 7 | 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 |