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Announcements
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
- PSI sets for
ISO 639
(languages)
and
ISO 3166-1 (countries)
- PSI set for
ISO 3166-2 (regions)
- PSI set for
the UN
code set for geographic regions
- PSI set for
UN/LOCODE
(cities, towns, ports, and airports)
- PSI set for
ISO 15924
(scripts)
- 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
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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
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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