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Two new ISO items: Terminology markup and Statistical data and Metadata Exchange

Cindy Hepfer, ALA Voting representative to NISO, has forwarded two additional items for comment. First is a systematic review ballot of ISO 116642 : 2003, Computer applications in terminology –Terminological markup framework. She notes that our vote options on this ballot are Confirm (as is), Revise/Amend, Withdraw (the standard), or Abstain (from the vote). Comments are required for all votes other than Confirm. The scope statement in the standard states: ‘This International Standard specifies a framework designed to provide guidance on the basic principles for representing data recorded in terminological data collections. This framework includes a meta-model and methods for describing specific terminological markup languages (TMLs) expressed in XML. The mechanisms for implementing constraints in a TML are defined in this International Standard, but not the specific constraints for individual TMLs, except for the three TMLs defined in Annexes B to D.” “This International Standard is designed to support the…