NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, is excited to let you know that they have been awarded the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1/ SC34, Document and processing languages.
This committee is responsible for 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
- API’s for document processing.
If you would like to be a member or want to nominate someone to be a member of this TAG, please email me at fanningba@hotmail.com by the end of the day on Friday, November 17. Be sure you have obtained agreement from the person if nominating a person and/or your organization. (To serve on this committee, you will need to be a member of NISO.) Include the person’s full contact information including organization name, email, phone number and regular mail address.
We will be holding our first U.S. TAG meeting on Monday, November 20 at noon Eastern. An agenda for the meeting and the virtual meeting details will be sent to you. We hope you or an expert you know will be joining us.
This committee works on such standards as EPUB and SGML.