ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 Data management and interchange is a standardization subcommittee of the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), which develops and facilitates standards within the field of data management and interchange. The international secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) located in the United States.
History ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 was formed in 1997, as a combination of the following three ISO/IEC JTC 1 subgroups: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21/WG 3, Database; ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 14, Data elements; and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 30, Open-edi. The new subcommittee was established with the intention of developing, and facilitating the development of, standards for data management within local and distributed information system environments. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 was originally made up of five working groups (WGs). ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 5, Database access and interchange, was disbanded in March 2002. WG 4, SQL multimedia and application packages, was disbanded in May, 2018. The three other original working groups of the subcommittee are currently active, although the title of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 1 was changed from Open-edi to its current title, e-Business. A new working group, WG 6 Data usage, was added in 2020.
Scope The scope of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 is “Standards for data management within and among local and distributed information systems environments. SC 32 provides enabling technologies to promote harmonization of data management facilities across sector-specific areas. Specifically, SC32 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 and 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
Structure ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 is made up of four active working groups, each of which carries out specific tasks in standards development within the field of data management and interchange. As a response to changing standardization needs, working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 can be disbanded if their area of work is no longer applicable, or established if new working areas arise. The focus of each working group is described in the group’s terms of reference. Active working groups of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 are: Working Group Working Area ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 1 e-BusinessISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 2 MetadataISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 3 Database languagesISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 6 Data usage
Collaborations ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 works in close collaboration with a number of other organizations or subcommittees, both internal and external to ISO or IEC, in order to avoid conflicting or duplicative work. Organizations internal to ISO or IEC that collaborate with or are in liaison to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 include: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7, Software and systems engineering ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25, Interconnection of information technology equipment ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38, Cloud Computing and Distributed Platforms ISO/TC 12, Quantities and units ISO/TC 37, Terminology and other language and content resources ISO/TC 37/SC 2, Terminographical and lexicographical working methods ISO/TC 37/SC 3, Systems to manage terminology, knowledge and content ISO/TC 37/SC 4, Language resource management ISO/TC 46/SC 4, Technical interoperability ISO/TC 46/SC 11, Archives/records management ISO/TC 68/SC 2, Financial Services, security ISO/TC 127, Earth-moving machinery ISO/TC 154, Processes, data elements and documents in commerce, industry and administration ISO/TC 184, Automation systems and integration ISO/TC 184/SC 4, Industrial data ISO/TC 204, Intelligent transport systems ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics ISO/TC 215, Health informatics ISO/TC 232, Learning services outside formal education
Some organizations external to ISO or IEC that collaborate with or are in liaison to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 include: International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) EUROSTAT International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO) ITU Infoterm Object Management Group (OMG) Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) UN/CEFACT United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) World Meteorological Organization (WMO) W3C
Member countries Countries pay a fee to ISO to be members of subcommittees.
The 14 "P" (participating) members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 are: Canada, China, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Portugal, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, and United States.
The 22 "O" (observing) members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Ghana, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey.
Published standards ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 standards are meant to structure, organize, and register metadata and other information resources associated with sharing and interoperability, including electronic commerce. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 currently has 74 published standards within the field of data management and interchange, including: ISO/IEC Standard Title Status Description WGISO/IEC 14662 free Information technology – Open-edi reference model Published (2010) Specifies the framework for coordinating the integration of existing International Standards and the development of future International Standards for the interworking of Open-edi parties through Open-edi 1ISO/IEC 15944-1 free Information technology – Business Operational View – Part 1: Operational aspects of Open-edi for implementation Published (2011) Allows constraints, including legal requirements, commercial and/or international trade and contract terms, public policy, and laws and regulations, to be defined and integrated into Open-edi through the business operational view (BOV) 1ISO/IEC 11179-3 free Information technology – Metadata registries (MDR) – Part 3: Registry metamodel and basic attributes Published (2013) Specifies the structure of a metadata registry in the form of a conceptual data model and specifies basic attributes which are required to describe metadata items 2 ISO/IEC TR 20943-1 free Information technology – Procedures for achieving metadata registry content consistency – Part 1: Data elements Published (2003) “Describes a set of procedures for the consistent registration of data elements and their attributes in a registry.” 2 ISO/IEC 20944-1 Information technology – Metadata Registries Interoperability and Bindings (MDR-IB) – Part 1: Framework, common vocabulary, and common provisions for conformance Published (2013) Contains the overview, framework, common vocabulary, and common provisions for conformance for the ISO/IEC 20944 series, which provides the bindings and their interoperability for MDRs 2ISO/IEC 19502 Information technology – Meta Object Facility (MOF) Published (2005) Defines a metamodel using MOF, and a set of interfaces using Open Distributed Processing (ODP) that can be used to define and manipulate a set of interoperable metamodels and their corresponding models 2ISO/IEC 19773 Information technology – Metadata Registries (MDR) modules Published (2011) Specifies small modules of data to be used or reused in applications 2ISO/IEC 9075-1 free Information technology – Database languages – SQL – Part 1: Framework (SQL/Framework) Published (2011) Defines the conceptual framework to specify the grammar of SQL and the result of processing statements in that language by an SQL-implementation 3ISO/IEC 13249-3 Information technology – Database languages – SQL multimedia and application packages – Part 3: Spatial Published (2011) “Defines spatial user-defined types, routines, and schemas for generic spatial data handling.” 4
SQL
The committee is responsible for the SQL standard, which has seen ten revisions since its initial publication in 1986. As of 2023, the most recent update is SQL:2023.
See also ISO/IEC JTC 1 List of ISO standards American National Standards Institute International Organization for Standardization International Electrotechnical Commission
References
External links ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 page at ISO