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Scope

Standardization in the field of document structures, languages and related facilities for the description and processing of compound and hypermedia documents, including:

  • languages for describing document logical structures and their support facilities
  • languages for describing document-like objects in web environments facilities
  • document processing architecture and formatting for logical documents facilities
  • languages for describing interactive documents facilities
  • multilingual font information interchange and related services facilities
  • final-form document architecture and page information interchange facilities
  • hypermedia document structuring language and application resources facilities
  • API's for document processing

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76

Published ISO standards *

5

ISO standards under development *

13
Participating members
39
Observing members

* number includes updates

Reference Title Type
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/AHG 1   Continuously Scrollable Comics (CSC) format for packaging and protection Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/JWG 7   Joint JTC 1/SC 34-TC 46/SC 4/WG: EPUB Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG 4   Office Open XML Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG 6   OpenDocument Format Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG 9   Document semantics support Working group
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34/WG 10   Schematron Working group
Liaison Committees to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34

The committees below can access the documents of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34:

Reference Title ISO/IEC
IEC/TC 100 Audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 Coded character sets ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35 User interfaces ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36 Information technology for learning, education and training ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Artificial intelligence ISO/IEC
ISO/TC 46 Information and documentation ISO
ISO/TC 171/SC 2 Document file formats, EDMS systems and authenticity of information ISO

 

Liaison Committees from ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 can access the documents of the committees below:

Reference Title ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information technology ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 Coded character sets ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 36 Information technology for learning, education and training ISO/IEC
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Artificial intelligence ISO/IEC
ISO/TC 46 Information and documentation ISO
ISO/TC 46/SC 4 Technical interoperability ISO
ISO/TC 171 Document management applications ISO
ISO/TC 171/SC 2 Document file formats, EDMS systems and authenticity of information ISO

 

Organizations in liaison (Category A and B)
Acronym Title Category
Ecma International Ecma International A
OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) A
PDF Association e.V. PDF Association e.V. A

Organizations in liaison (Category C)

C liaisons participate at the level of a Working Group

Acronym Title Category
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute C
Readium Foundation Readium Foundation C
W3C World Wide Web Consortium C
Date Month Location TC/SC Note
8-12 September 2025 Redmond (United States) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 *
  September 2026 () ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 **

* Information definite but meeting not yet formally convened
** Provisional

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 - Secretariat

JISC (Japan)

Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
Technical Regulations, Standards & Conformity Assessment Policy Unit
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
1-3-1, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100 - 8901
Japan

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