ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 18/WG8 N1912

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 18

Document Processing and Related Communication --

Document Description and Processing Languages

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The 10th Meeting of CJK DOCP was held at Taipei, ROC, in Feb. 20-21, 1997, just after the PNC(Pacific Neighborhood Consortium) meeting. Members from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Germany and US attended to discuss about East Asia specific topics for actual applications of WG8 developed standards, in particular SGML, HyTime and Font Information Interchange.

Major discussion were carried out on
- Treatment of semi-graphical forms (table, list, equation, etc.) and inter-linear texts,
- Japanese and Chinese representation of SGML terminology,
- Japanese and Chinese representation of Fonts terminology,
- Character processing model,
- Treatment of Kanji variants and components,
- Style specification for Japanese documents and other East Asian documents.

The next CJK DOCP meeting will be held in the Kyoto/Japan, in Oct. 6-7, 1997. The experts who are interested in East Asian document description/processing are expected to attend the meeting.

Attachments
- CJK-DOCP/97-28, Resolutions of the 10th CJK DOCP Meeting
- CJK-DOCP/97-7, Distributed documents in the 10th CJK DOCP Meeting

Resolutions of the 10th CJK DOCP Meeting
Taipei, ROC, Feb.20-21, 1997

Resolution 1. DTD for semi-graphical forms

CJK DOCP instructs Mr. R. Jelliffe to develop a new text of "CJK Recommendation on model/DTD for semi-graphical forms (table, list, equation, etc.)", making his document (CJK-DOCP/97-14) more generic.

Resolution 2. Inter-linear texts

CJK DOCP recognizes the importance of inter-linear texts and instructs all the members to provide their requirements and examples (see CJK-DOCP/97-26) to the next meeting.
CJK DOCP creates a new project of inter-linear text and appoints Dr. C. Wittern and Prof. E. Matsuoka as project editors.

Resolution 3. CJK multilingual linguistic markup

CJK DOCP accepts the document CJK-DOCP/97-9 as a CJK Recommendation on multilingual linguistic markup and instructs the editor to submit it to the Chair. in an electronic form.

Resolution 4. Markup for CJK multimedia documents

CJK DOCP authorizes the TEI approach to representation of multimedia documents and instructs Prof. J. Lehman to complete the text of "CJK Recommendation on markup for CJK multimedia documents".

Resolution 5. Liaison to/from PNC

CJK DOCP appoints Prof. L. Lancaster as a liaison representative to/from PNC.

Resolution 6. General character processing model

CJK DOCP accepts the model proposed in 2. and 3. of CJK-DOCP/97-16 as a CJK general character processing model and instructs Mr. Y. Okui to draft a text of "CJK Recommendation on general character model".

Resolution 7. New scheme of character treatment

CJK DOCP appreciates the Dr. C. Wittern's proposal in the agenda item 8.4 and instructs him to draft new text of the scheme in the form of CJK Recommendation.

Resolution 8. CJK DOCP home page

CJK DOCP accepts the proposal of CJK-DOCP/97-13 and instructs Dr. Y. Komachi to establish a CJK DOCP home page according to his plan. CJK DOCP instructs editors to submit their documents to him in an electronic form.

Resolution 9. BUCS

CJK DOCP appreciates the report of BUCS and instructs Prof. E. Matsuoka to provide a full list of BUCS in the next meeting.

Resolution 10. Character/glyph treatment

CJK DOCP accepts the character/glyph treatments proposed by CJK-DOCP/97-27 (CJK-DOCP/96-11 and CJK-DOCP/96-12), and instructs Prof. C. C. Hsieh and Prof. Lehmen to edit them to be structured in the form of CJK Recommendation.

Resolution 11. Style of CJK multilingual documents

CJK DOCP instructs all the members to provide their requirements and examples for styles of CJK multilingual documents to Mr. Y. Okui, so that he may edit CJK DOCP/97-17 to be a CJK Recommendation on the style of CJK multilingual documents.

Resolution 12. Extension to CJK document interchange

CJK DOCP acknowledges the need and importance of handling missing characters in electronic document exchange. Prof. Ju's specification for electronic form exchange and rendering, and Prof. Hsieh's mechanism for treating missing characters provides a foundation for further research and application in the multilingual area. CJK DOCP instructs CJK DOCP project leader, Prof. Ju, to include these efforts into the subproject - Multilingual DTD, and make a report in the next CJK DOCP meeting.

Resolution 13. 11th meetings

The 11th CJK DOCP meeting will be held in Kyoto, Japan in Oct. 6-7, 1997. Dr. Y. Komachi and Mr. Y. Okui are requested to arrange the meeting.

Resolution 14. Thanks for hosting the meeting

CJK DOCP thanks Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica and National Institute of Technology at Kaohsiung, hosting the meeting. Special thanks are due to Prof. C. C. Hsieh and Prof. S. M. Ju for handling arrangements and The Behavior Technology Corporation for making a donation to the meeting.

Distributed Documents in the 10th CJK DOCP Meeting
Taipei, Taiwan/ROC, Feb. 20-21, 1997

(* distributed prior to the 10th meeting)

CJK-DOCP/96
-26*, CJK representation of "Font Info Interchange" terminology
-27*, Draft agenda for the 10th CJK DOCP meeting

CJK-DOCP/97
-1*, Draft agenda (revised) for the 10th CJK DOCP meeting
-1 rev2, Draft agenda (revision 2) for the 10th CJK DOCP meeting
-2*, Meeting notice of the 10th CJK DOCP meeting
-3, Introduction to the CJK DOCP meeting
-4, Minutes of the 9th CJK DOCP meeting
-4 attach, Minutes of the 9th CJK DOCP meeting
-5, Japanese activities in document processing standardization (Y.Komachi)
-6, Liaison report from ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 (Y.Komachi)
-7, Distributed documents
-8, Attendance list
-8 rev, Attendance list
-9, CJK DOCP recommendation: CJK multilingual linguistic markup (J.S.Chang)
-10, Kanji database and input method of "Itaiji" (E.Matsuoka)
-10 attach, "BUCS" now on developing (E.Matsuoka)
-11, Disposition of comments on DAM1/9541-1 and Editing instructions to create AM1/9541-1: typeface design grouping
-12, Table of replies on ISO/IEC 9541-1/DAM1: typeface design grouping
-13, Proposal for establishing a CJK DOCP home page (Y.Komachi)
-14, On the mixture of different types of semi-graphical text forms in Japanese technical documents (R.Jelliffe)
-15, Overview of updated version of SPML: Standard Proofreading Markup Language (Y.Komachi and M.Hiyama / to be distributed)
-16, Multilingual document interchange using SDATA entity, BUCS, and others (Y.Okui)
-17, General Japanese style for formatted documents (Y.Okui)
-18, Pacific Neighborhood: the past and future (L.Lancaster)
-19, Multimedia elements in TEI documents (J.Lehman)
-20, Font information interchange —pŒê (C.C.Hsieh)
-21, Guidelines for electronic text encoding and interchange (C.Wittern)
-22, Electronic form exchange and rendering (S.M.Ju)
-23, A survey of full-text data bases and related techniques for Chinese ancient documents in Academia Sinica (C.C.Hsieh)
-24, Core text identification for full-text databases (L.Lehman)
-25, SGML êŽŒ’†–ó (R.Lai)
-26, •Ù–¾‹å“Ç - from ’†‘ŒÃ‘ãŽjÐZ“Ç–@ - (C.C.Hsieh)
-27, "blue book" (C.C.Hsieh)
-28, Resolution of the 10th CJK DOCP meeting
-29, The IRIZ Kanjibase (C.Wittern)
-30, Proposals concerning the processing of rare and variant characters (C.Wittern)