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INCITS/L8 is an INCITS
Technical Committee that develops national
and international standards for
metadata and related technologies. INCITS is an Accredited Standards
Committee (accredited by ANSI)
that develops a variety
of information technology standards.
INCITS/L8 serves several purposes:
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A forum for developing and maintaining US national standards (see also INCITS/L8 org chart). |
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The US TAG (Technical Advisory Group, also known as a "national committee") to several international standards committees. US TAG committees formulate and represent US positions in international committees. See US TAG responsibilities below (see also organization chart for international activities). |
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Questions (FAQs) are available.
Note: See the Acronym page for help on
abbreviations and terminology.
INCITS/L8 is the US TAG to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 WG2 (Metadata). INCITS/L8 participates in all development and maintenance activities of SC32/WG2. INCITS/L8 makes recommendations to the JTC1 TAG on US positions regarding SC32/WG2.
INCITS/L8 is the US TAG to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 WG11 (Binding Techniques) for the ISO/IEC 11404 standard (General Purpose Datatype Specifications, formerly known as Language Independent Datatypes). INCITS/L8 participates in the development and maintenance of the ISO/IEC 11404 standard and its revision. INCITS/L8 makes recommendations to the JTC1 TAG on US positions regarding SC22/WG11.
Last Updated: 2002-06-20