JTC 1/ SC 32
Title: Data Management and
Interchange
Area
of Work: Standards for data
management within and among local and distributed information
systems environments. SC 32
provides enabling technologies to promote
harmonization of data management
facilities across sector-specific areas.
Specifically,
SC 32 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.
JTC 1/ SC 32/WG 01
Title: eBusiness
Area
of Work: 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 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
components.
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).
JTC 1/ SC 32/WG 02
Title: Metadata
Area
of Work: To develop and maintain
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:
a) a framework for
specifying and managing metadata;
b) specification and
management of data elements, structures and their associated
semantics;
c) specification and
management of value domains, such as classification and code
schemes;
d) specification and
management of data about processes and behaviour;
e) facilities to manage
metadata, for example: data dictionaries, repositories,
information resource dictionary
systems, registries and glossaries;
f) facilities to
exchange metadata, including its semantics, over the Internet, intranets
and other media.
JTC 1/ SC 32/WG 03
Title: Database Languages
Area
of Work: The terms of reference
of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32/WG3 Database Languages are:
1. To 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. To provide additional
support for the integrity of database systems through
transaction commitment, recovery,
and security facilities.
3. To 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. To provide interfaces
for the languages developed to other standard programming
languages.
5. To provide interfaces
or access to other standards describing data types, behaviour
or database content to
users of the languages developed.
JTC 1/ SC 32/WG 04
Title: SQL Multimedia &
Application Packages
Area
of Work: To specify 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.