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Updated 18 August 2002 
  OASIS Topic Maps Published Subjects for Geography and Languages (GeoLang) TC

Advancing the XML Topic Maps specification (ISO/IEC 13250:2000) for navigating information resources by defining published subjects for languages, countries, and regions

Announcements

  • Draft available: A draft of the published subject set for ISO 639 is now available.
  • Minutes available: Minutes from the Baltimore meeting are now available.
  • Next F2F meeting: In conjunction with XML Europe 2003 in London; Friday 9th 1100-1300.

Charter

This Technical Committee will define sets of published subjects for language, country, and region subjects, in accordance with the guidelines for published subjects to be laid down by the Published Subjects TC.

Languages, countries, and regions are subjects that occur frequently across a wide range of topic maps. In order to promote maximum reusability, interchangeability and mergeability, standardised sets of published subjects are required to cover these domains.

Two such PSI sets (for country and language) were published as part of the XML Topic Map 1.0 Specification. The task of this TC will be to update and extend those PSI sets using existing code sets defined by recognised standards bodies such as the ISO and the UN.

The TC will not produce mappings between these PSI sets, except to the extent that such mappings are already defined in the code sources. In general, any assertions made about the subjects published by this TC, including names and mappings, will be restricted to those made in the code sources.

Proposed list of deliverables, in expected order

  1. PSI sets for ISO 639 (languages) and ISO 3166-1 (countries)
  2. PSI set for ISO 3166-2 (regions)
  3. PSI set for the UN code set for geographic regions
  4. PSI set for UN/LOCODE (cities, towns, ports, and airports)
  5. PSI set for ISO 15924 (scripts)
  6. PSI set for IANA charset registry (character encodings)

These deliverables depend on work to be done by the PubSubj TC, and their completion may be affected by delays (if any) in the work of this TC.

The TC will not produce mappings between these PSI sets, but leave this for third parties to do. The assertions made about these subjects will be restricted to those made in the code sources.

Language in which the TC will conduct business: English. Speakers of other languages are encouraged to participate.

[Original charter]


Membership

Current members

  • Mary Nishikawa, OASIS individual member
  • Steve Pepper, OASIS individual member
  • Bernard Vatant, Mondeca
  • Motomu Naito, Synergy Incubate
  • Thomas Bandholtz, OASIS individual member
  • Peter Pappamikail, European Parliament
  • Eric Freese, ISOGEN

TC Chair: Lars Marius Garshol, OASIS individual member

Prospective members

  • Patrick Durusau, Society of Biblical Literature

Mailing Lists

Discussion Mail List

This TC has both private and public email lists. The private lists are for the use of TC members and other OASIS members only. The public list is for the use of the public to make comments on the work of the TC. For all lists you must be a subscriber in order to post a message to the list. In order to subscribe to or unsubscribe from any TC list go to http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl, enter your email address, then select which lists you want to subscribe to or unsubscribe from. The following are the email lists for this TC:

Private TC List: geolang

Public Comment List: geolang-comment

In keeping with OASIS' policy of open discussions, the archives of all TC lists may be viewed by the public; go to http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/


Documents

Base specifications

  • XTM 1.0
  • ISO 13250
  • ISO 13250, new edition
  • Published subjects

Working material

All working documents are available from the Documents Index


Schedule and Minutes

Minutes and attendance follow-up

Provisional schedule for 2002

  • Face-to-face: May 2003, in conjunction with the XML Europe conference in London. Details to be decided.

Press

OASIS Adds New XML, Geography Committees
Internet.com, 13 Feb 2002

OASIS Technical Committee to Define Published Subjects for Geography and Languages
The XML Cover Pages, 02 Feb 2002

OASIS Expands Topic Maps Development: New Technical Committees Formed to Define Published Subjects for XML Standards and Geography and Languages


This OASIS Topic Maps Published Subjects for Geography and Languages (GeoLang) TC web page is maintained by Lars Marius Garshol

 

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