The InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) recently established a new technical committee on Data Management and Interchange.  The new technical committee, INCITS/DM32, will serve as the US TAG to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 Data Management and Interchange.  The INCITS/DM32 area of work will address standardization in the areas assigned to JTC 1/SC 32:

 

Standards for data management within and among local and distributed information systems environments. SC 32 provides enabling technologies to promote harmonization data management facilities across sector-specific areas. Specifically, SC 32 standards include:

 

·         reference models and frameworks for the coordination of existing and emerging standards;

·         definition of data domains, data types and data structures, and their associated semantics;

·         languages, services and protocols for persistent storage, concurrent access, concurrent update and interchange of data;

·         methods, languages, services and protocols to structure, organize and register metadata and other information resources associated with sharing and interoperability, including electronic commerce.

 

INCITS/DM32 has two task groups:

• INCITS/DM32.2, Database, develops standards for the syntax and semantics of database languages. These languages are used by computer processes and human users to store, retrieve, update and administer large structured data collections.  Task Group DM32.2 coordinates its work with related projects of JTC 1/SC 32/WG 3 (Database Languages) and WG 4 (SQL Multimedia and Application Packages).

• INCITS/DM32.8, Metadata, is responsible for the development and coordination of proposed National standards and guidelines which address the representation of data in the form of data elements and the tools necessary for the accomplishment of this work. Task Group DM32.8 coordinates its work with related projects of JTC 1/SC 32/WG 1 (e-Business) and WG 2 (Metadata).

 

The organizational meeting of INCITS/DM32 – Data Management and Interchange, will be held September 23, 2009 by teleconference:

 

10:00 AM to 2:30 PM (Pacific)

 

The draft agenda and documents for the upcoming meeting are available at:

 

          http://www.incits.org/dm32/0909_dm32_1.zip

 

Membership in INCITS/DM32 is open to all directly and materially affected parties in accordance with the INCITS membership rules.  To find out more about participating in the organizational meeting of INCITS/DM32, please contact Ms. Jennifer Garner at jgarner@itic.org or 202-626-5737.