Information Technology Research and Standardization Center (INSTAC)
In 1985, the information technology industry and the government (AIST, a part of MITI) joined forces to establish INSTAC (Information Technology Research and Standardization Center) within the Japanese Standard Association (JSA) as they perceived a growing need to strengthen the ability to draft Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) relating to information technology in a more timely manner.
INSTAC, a non-profit organization, fulfilled the following responsibilities:
- Conducted research activities in the field of information technology with a view to identify the needs for standardization
- Drafted JIS in the field of information technology
- Promoted interchange between various standardization bodies, domestic or overseas, national or regional/international, with a view to smooth exchange and disseminate information
INSTAC XML specifications
- REgular LAnguage description for XML (RELAX). The RELAX NG specifications is now developed within?OASIS by the RELAX NG Technical Committeee.
More information: RELAX NG website.
Context for Information Technology Research and Standardization Center (INSTAC)
Related Articles for Information Technology Research and Standardization Center (INSTAC)
- Business Process Modeling Initiative (BPMI.org)
- Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Interest Group
- Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
- electronic business using eXtensible Markup Language (ebXML)
- Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
- Java Community Process (JCP)
- Liberty Alliance Project
- Object Management Group (OMG)
- Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGi)
- Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
- The Open Group
- Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
- RosettaNet
- Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I)
- Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- www.udef.com
- XBRL International
- XML/EDI Group
Author
Douglas K Barry
Principal
The Savvy Manager's Guide
Douglas K Barry is also the author of a book that explains Web Services, service-oriented architecture, and Cloud Computing in an easy-to-understand, non-technical manner.
Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures, and Cloud Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide (Second Edition)
by Douglas K Barry with David Dick
This is a guide for the savvy manager who wants to capitalize on the wave of change that is occurring with Web Services, service-oriented architecture, and—more recently—Cloud Computing. The changes wrought by these technologies will require both a basic grasp of the technologies and an effective way to deal with how these changes will affect the people who build and use the systems in our organizations. This book covers both issues. Managers at all levels of all organizations must be aware of both the changes that we are now seeing and ways to deal with issues created by those changes.