ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32

Title

Data Management and Interchange

Scope

Standards for data management within and among local and distributed information systems environments. SC32 provides enabling technologies to promote harmonization data management facilities across sector-specific areas. Specifically, SC32 standards include:

1. reference models and frameworks for the coordination of existing and emerging standards;
2. definition of data domains, data types and data structures, and their associated semantics;
3. languages, services and protocols for persistent storage, concurrent access, concurrent update and interchange of data;
4. methods, languages, services and protocols to structure, organize and register metadata and other information resources associated with sharing and interoperability, including electronic commerce.

SC32/WG1

Title

e-Business

Scope

Standardization in the field of generic information technology standards for open electronic data interchange needed to attain global interoperability among the information technology systems used by organizations. Such interoperability is viewed from both business and information technology perspectives. Within this context the scope includes:

1. establishment of methodology and framework for identification and modelling of business activities through business scenarios and their components, such as roles, information bundles, and semantic components;
2. identification and specification of formal description techniques for describing classes of business requirements and their contextual and semantic specifications;
3. identification and specification of formal description techniques for developing business scenarios and their components;
4. identification and specification of information technology services and service interfaces for accomplishing business transactions;
5. identification and specification of facilities to manage business scenarios and their.

Note: Priority is on work required to support the needs of electronic commerce, electronic administration, electronic business, etc. The basis of work is the Open-EDI Reference Model (ISO/IEC 14662).

SC32/WG2

Title

Metadata

Scope

Development and maintenance of standards that facilitate specification and management of metadata. Use of these standards will enhance the understanding and sharing of data, information and processes to support, for example, interoperability, electronic commerce and component-based development. The scope shall include:

1. establishment of a framework for specifying and managing metadata;
2. specification and management of data elements, structures and their associated;
3. specification and management of value domains, such as classification and code schemes;
4. specification and management of data about processes and behaviour;
5. development of facilities to manage metadata, for example: data dictionaries, repositories, information resource dictionary systems, registries and glossaries;
6. development of facilities to exchange metadata, including its semantics, over the Internet, intranets and other media.

SC32/WG3

Title

Database Languages

Scope

The terms of reference of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32/WG3 Database Languages are:

1. develop and maintain languages for the dynamic specification, maintenance and description of database structures and contents in multi-user environments. The specifications may include the data type, behaviour and any integrity constraints on the contents of the defined structures. The specifications may include mechanisms for the creation and generation of new data types and behaviours so as to support the specification of other international standards.
2. provide additional support for the integrity of database systems through transaction commitment, recovery, and security facilities.
3. develop and maintain languages which provide for the storage, access and manipulation of data in database structures by multiple concurrent users. These languages may be computationally complete and may contain features for the packaging and storage of modules and procedures in database structures.
4. provide interfaces for the languages developed to other standard programming languages.
5. provide interfaces or access to other standards describing data types, behaviour or database content to users of the languages developed.

SC32/WG4

Title

SQL Multimedia & Application Packages

Scope

Specification of packages of abstract data types for use in various application areas. Specify each package of abstract data type definitions using the facilities for user-defined type provided in the Database Language SQL/Foundation. This should include packages such as Full-Text, Spatial, Still Image, Still Graphic, Animation, Full Motion Video, Audio, Seismic, and Music.