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 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 was originally made up of five working groups (WGs).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:
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:
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
