TITLE  :  Liaison Report from CJK DOCP (China/Japan/Korea Document Processing Meeting)

SOURCE :  Y. Komachi
STATUS :  Document for the SC18/WG8 meeting in Boston
REQUESTED ACTION :  For Information
DATE   :  Nov. 11, 1996
DISTRIBUTION     :  WG8


The 9th Meeting of CJK DOCP was held at Sydney, Australia, in Sept. 23-24, 1996, just before the SGML Asia Pacific '96. Nine members from Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Australia and U.S. 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
- Complicated hypermedia/multimedia documents, e.g., sutras,
- Japanese and Chinese representation of SGML terminology,
- Japanese and Chinese representation of Fonts terminology,
- SGML declaration (in particular, naming rule appropriate for East Asian characters), 
- SGML description for East Asian Tables,
- Treatment of Kanji components,
- Kanji and its Variants, and 
- Style specification for Japanese documents and other East Asian documents. 

The next CJK DOCP meeting will be held in the ROC, February 1997. The experts who are interested in East Asian document description/processing are expected to attend the meeting.

Attachments 
- CJK-DOCP/96-24, Resolutions of the 9th CJK DOCP Meeting
- CJK-DOCP/96-25, Distributed documents in the 9th CJK DOCP Meeting

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                                                        CJK-DOCP/96-24
Resolutions of the 9th CJK DOCP Meeting 
Sydney, Australia,  Sept.23-24, 1996 


Resolution 1. Extended naming rule
 CJK DOCP instructs Mr. R. Jelliffe to develop an example of SGML declaration of ISO/IEC 10646 characters with Prof. Hsieh's extension using the extended naming rule.

Resolution 2. Asian language text corpora
 CJK DOCP instructs Prof. J. Lehman to develop an example of TEI encoded document instance which includes ISO/IEC 10646 characters with Prof. Hsieh's extension and which includes, if possible, the use of extended ISO 639. 

Resolution 3. SGML terminology
 CJK DOCP instructs Prof. C. C. Hsieh to fill the Chinese column of CJK-DOCP/96-7.

Resolution 4. Fonts terminology
 CJK DOCP instructs Dr. Y. Komachi to draft CJK representation of Fonts terminology including completed Japanese column and instructs Prof. C. C. Hsieh to fill its Chinese column. 

Resolution 5. Table DTD
 CJK DOCP instructs Mr. R. Jelliffe to develop a new text of the "CJK recommendation on model/DTD of tables" according to the discussion of this meeting.

Resolution 6. Multilingual document interchange using SDATA and BUCS
 CJK DOCP instructs Mr. Y. Okui to revise CJK-DOCP/96-14 considering the suggestion of Prof. Hsieh. 

Resolution 7.
 CJK DOCP recognizes the importance of the character/glyph treatments proposed by 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 8. Style for CJK multilingual documents 
 CJK DOCP instructs Prof. C. C. Hsieh, Prof. J. Lehman, Mr. Li Longjiang and Mr. R. Jelliffe to provide their comments to Mr. Y. Okui, so that Mr. Okui may edit CJK DOCP/96-15 to be a CJK recommendation on the style of CJK multilingual documents.

Resolution 9. Typeface design grouping 
 CJK DOCP instructs Prof. C. C. Hsieh and Dr. Y. Komachi to provide more presice typeface design grouping than ISO/IEC 9541-1/DAM1 regarding Chinese typefaces and Japanese typefaces respectively.

Resolution 10. 10th meetings 
 The 10th CJK DOCP meeting will be held in the ROC in February, 1997. Prof. Hsieh is requested to arrange the meeting.

Resolution 11. Thanks for hosting the meeting 
 CJK DOCP thanks Allette Systems, Sydney hosting the meeting. Special thanks are due to Mr. R. Jelliffe of the Allette Systems for handling arrangements. 


Other action items
a. Prof. C. C. Hsieh sends Dr. Y. Komachi a revised text of the multilingual linguistic markup standard.
b. Dr. Y. Komachi sends his book of fonts users guide to Prof. J. Lehman, Mr. Li Longjiang and Ms. Hong Jiang.
c. Mr. Li Longjiang tries to report some Chinese activities in the next meeting.
d. Prof. J. Lehman sends CJK DOCP members his liaison report from EBTI.
e. All members review CJK-DOCP/96-21 and CJK-DOCP/96-22, and provide comments on them in the next meeting.

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                                                        CJK-DOCP/96-25 
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Distributed Documents in the 9th CJK DOCP Meeting 
Sydney, Australia,  Sept. 23-24, 1996
(*  distributed prior to the meeting) 

CJK-DOCP/96 
-1*, Draft agenda for the 9th CJK DOCP meeting 
-2*, Meeting notice of the 9th CJK DOCP
-3, Attendance list
-4, Minutes of the 8th CJK DOCP meeting
-5, Japanese activities in document processing standardization 
-6, Liaison report from ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 
-7, CJK representation of SGML terminology
-8, Japan's comments on ISO/IEC 9541-1/DAM1
-9, Comments on SC18 N5351, ISO/IEC 9541-1/PDAM2
-10, Hypertext and multimedia alternatives for Asian language text corpora
-11, “dŽqŒÃ�Ð’†“I㞎š–â‘è (Chinese)
-12, “dŽqŒÃ�Ð’†“I㞎š–â‘è (English, Missing character problem in electronic Chinese ancient documents)
-13, Computer services, Beijing Formax Co., Ltd
-14, Multilingual document interchange using SDATA entity, BUCS, and others
-15, General Japanese style for formatted documents 
-16, Non-western character sets, languages, and writing systems
-17, Study on standard proofreading markup language
-18, Working draft of ISO/IEC TR 15285, An operational model for characters and glyphs
-19, PANOSE 2.0 white paper
-20, PTC for extended naming rules and development principles for SGML
-21, ISO/IEC 9541-1/DAM1
-22, ISO/IEC 9541-1/PDAM2
-23, Table model (to be distributed by Rick)
-24, Resolutions of the 9th CJK DOCP meeting 
-25, Distributed documents in the 9th CJK DOCP Meeting