Please distribute the attached information concerning the September 23, 2009 organizational meeting for the new Technical Committee on Data Management and Interchange (INCITS/DM32) to any interested parties in your committees or organizations.  Responses to the call for members are requested by September 16, 2009 and contributions are requested by September 7, 2009.

Best regards -

NOTE:  New mailing address effective June 1, 2009

Jennifer T. Garner
Director, Standards Programs
INCITS/Information Technology Industry Council
1101 K Street NW  Suite 610
Washington, DC 20005
T:   202.626.5737
E:   jgarner@itic.org
W:  www.incits.org

 

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INCITS
InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
INCITS Secretariat, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
1101 K Street NW, Suite 610, Washington, DC 20005
Telephone 202-737-8888; Fax 202-638-4922

 

Date:  August 20, 2009
Contributions Due:  September 7, 2009
Membership Requests and RSVPs Due:  September 16, 2009
Reply to:  Jennifer T. Garner
Phone:  (202) 626-5737
email:  jgarner@itic.org

 

Subject:	Meeting Announcement for the Organizational Meeting of INCITS/DM32 - Data Management and Interchange, Call for Members and Call for Contributions

 

The organizational meeting of INCITS Technical Committee DM32 - Data Management and Interchange*, will be held September 23, 2009 by teleconference:

 

September 23, 2009
10:00 AM - 2:30 PM (Pacific)
Teleconference Logistics:
US Toll-free Call-in Number:  (866) 346-0549
International Call-in Number:  (763) 391-1436
Conference Code:  6265737

 

The meeting will be called to order at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, by the INCITS Executive Board appointed Chairman, Dr. Donald Deutsch of Oracle.

The draft agenda and meeting documents are available at:

 

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

 

Membership on INCITS/DM32 is open to all directly and materially affected interests.  The committee will operate under the ANSI-accredited procedures of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS).  All organizations that attend the first meeting or second meeting and request voting membership will attain voting rights immediately.  A second meeting of INCITS/DM32 is tentatively scheduled as an October 27, 2009 or October 28, 2009 face-to-face meeting in northern California.

*The approved reorganization plan for the US TAG to JTC 1/SC 32 is detailed in document dm32-2009-00002.

Requested Action

Please send requests for membership and RSVPs for the organizational meeting to Jennifer Garner (jgarner@itic.org) not later than September 16, 2009.  Contributions should also be addressed to Jennifer Garner (jgarner@itic.org) not later than September 7, 2009 for posting to the two-week draft agenda.

 

* Scope for INCITS/DM32, Data Management and Interchange

INCITS/DM32, Data Management and Interchange, serves as the US TAG to JTC 1/SC 32 (Data Management and Interchange).  The scope of JTC 1/SC 32 is as follows:

 

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).