Standards for text and hypermedia processing

Working Group 8 of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee I Subcommittee 18 (JTC1/SC18/WG8) is tasked with developing Information Technology (IT) standards for use in Text and Office Systems. The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) introduced by WG8 in 1986 is now widely recognized as one of the key standards in developing systems for Open Information Interchange (OII). In November 1992 WG8 published an important new standard, based on SGML, for the interchange of multimedia and hypermedia data. The Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime) detailed in ISO 10744 provides hypermedia and multimedia systems developers with a standardized way of representing their data sets when interchanging information with other systems