Pragmatic Applications for TC 37 Standards:
Who is the audience?
How are they using the standards?

A one-day conference held in conjuction with the 2007 annual plenary meetings of ISO TC 37/Terminology and other language and content resources

Date:

Monday, 2007-08-13, 8:30 - 5:30

Venue:
Courtyard by Marriott
1600 N Freedom Blvd
Provo, UT 84604

Languages of the conference: English and French

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: March 25, 2007
Submission per email to Sue Ellen Wright
sellenwright@gmail.com

Submission form

Background:

Although TC 37 was originally founded for the purpose of providing guidance to ISO standardizers preparing standardized vocabularies for treatment in ISO standards, the scope and application of TC 37 standards has expanded dramatically in the last decade. All-too often, the drafters of standards may be unaware of the impact that the standards have now and will have in the future with respect to a wide variety of applications, particularly in the areas of information technology, e-commerce, and the development of semantic resources in a wide variety of areas. This conference is designed to bring together the various communities for meaningful dialog concerning the development and the pragmatic application of standards.

Suggested standards for discussion:

Individual presentations or suggestions for panels are invited for the following topics. Suggestions for the treatment of other TC 37 standards are also very welcome.

ISO 704 and 1087

These core TC 37 standards provide the fundamental basis for work in the creation of metadata registries (MDRs) and other knowledge representation resources.

ISO 639 family of standards

The second fundamental group of standards from TC 37 that has a wide-ranging impact on a truly vast number of user is the ISO 639 family of standards for language codes. Recent efforts on the part of the and the new IETF work on language tags (RFC 4646 Tags for Identifying Languages) combines country, script, and variant codess, among others, to provide a powerful environment for tagging content with locale-specific language identification.

Other new initiatives are enlisting world-wide expert participation in the identification and normalization of dialect and regional codes.

ISO 12620 and the remodeled Data Category Registry

Recent efforts to redesign the TC 37 Data Category Registry as a more sophisticated, user-friendly metadata registry for use by all members of TC 37 and the general public are intended to result in the launch of the new ISO-CATS DCR.

SC 4 standards and the NLP Community

A growing number of standards are evolving in TC 37/SC 4, Language Resources Management. Many of these standards have their origins in various national and international projects related to natural language processing and provide powerful tools for use in information manipulation and semantic data processing.

Submitters are cordially invited to propose additional standards or families of standards for discussion.

Sponsors

ANSI Technical Advisory Group (TAG) 37
Infoterm
TermNet

Organizers

Sue Ellen Wright
Alan Melby


Deadline for abstracts: March 25, 2007
Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2007
Extended abstracts: June 1, 2007

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