IEC 62605:2011

Multimedia systems and equipment - Multimedia e-publishing and e-books - Interchange format for e-dictionaries

IEC 62605:2011 specifies the interchange format for e-dictionaries among publishers, content creators and manufacturers. It does not address the following aspects:
- data formats for reading devices;
- elements necessary for final print reproduction only;
- rendering issues related to physical devices;
- security issues such as DRM for document.

Systèmes et équipements multimédia - Publication et livres électroniques multimédia - Format d'échange pour les dictionnaires électroniques

La IEC 62605:2011 spécifie un format d'échange de dictionnaires électroniques entre les éditeurs, les créateurs de contenu et les fabricants. Elle ne traite pas des aspects suivants:
- les formats de données des appareils de lecture;
- les éléments nécessaires uniquement à l'impression finale;
- les questions de rendu liées aux dispositifs physiques;
- les questions de sécurité (la gestion des droits numériques d'un document, par exemple).

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 10-Jul-2011
• ICS: 33.160.60 - Multimedia systems and teleconferencing equipment
• ICS: 35.240.20 - IT applications in office work
• ICS: 35.240.30 - IT applications in information, documentation and publishing
• Technical Committee: TC 100 - Audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment
• Current Stage: DELPUB - Deleted Publication
• Completion Date: 10-Feb-2016

Relations

• Revised: IEC 62605:2016 - Multimedia systems and equipment - Multimedia e-publishing and e-books - Interchange format for e-dictionaries
• Effective Date: 05-Sep-2023

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IEC 62605
®

Edition 1.0 2011-07
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE


Multimedia systems and equipment – Multimedia e-publishing and e-books –
Interchange format for e-dictionaries

Systèmes et équipements multimédia – Publication et livres électroniques
multimédia – Format d’échange pour les dictionnaires électroniques

IEC 62605:2011

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IEC 62605
®

Edition 1.0 2011-07
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE


Multimedia systems and equipment – Multimedia e-publishing and e-books –
Interchange format for e-dictionaries

Systèmes et équipements multimédia – Publication et livres électroniques
multimédia – Format d’échange pour les dictionnaires électroniques

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
PRICE CODE
INTERNATIONALE
CODE PRIX XF
ICS 33.160.60; 35.240.20; 35.240.30 ISBN 978-2-88912-552-4

® Registered trademark of the International Electrotechnical Commission
Marque déposée de la Commission Electrotechnique Internationale

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 5
INTRODUCTION . 7
1 Scope . 8
2 Normative references . 8
3 Terms and definitions . 8
4 Position and requirements for interchange format for E-dictionaries . 8
4.1 Interchange format for e-dictionaries in contents creation/distribution model . 8
4.2 Requirements for interchange format for e-dictionaries . 9
5 File format . 9
6 Semantics . 10
7 File format details . 10
8 Overview of the format’s structure . 10
9 Elements and attributes . 11
9.1 General . 11
9.2 Page_ID . 11
9.3 Object_ID . 11
9.4 Char_ID . 11
9.5 Reading . 11
9.6 Filename . 12
9.7 Standard character . 12
9.8 Standard character string . 12
9.9 Extended character . 13
9.10 Extended character string . 13
9.11 External character . 13
9.12 External character string . 14
9.13 External extended character string . 15
9.14 Coordinates . 15
9.15 Polygonal_region. 15
9.16 Color . 15
9.17 Date . 16
9.18 Time . 16
9.19 Country . 16
9.20 Personal_name . 17
9.21 Organization_name . 17
9.22 Address . 17
9.23 Permission . 18
9.24 Keyword . 19
9.25 Telephone_number . 19
9.26 Mail_address . 20
10 Description format details . 21
10.1 General . 21
10.2 Book information modules . 21
10.2.1 General . 21
10.2.2 Bibliographical data . 22
10.3 Content management module . 28

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10.3.1 General . 28
10.3.2 Flowing content data . 28
10.4 Event info module . 41
10.4.1 Events . 41
10.4.2 Event data . 41
10.4.3 Trigger (pointer) . 42
10.4.4 Action information . 43
10.5 Parts data module . 45
10.5.1 Storage and management . 45
10.5.2 Dynamic text object . 46
10.5.3 Sound object . 47
10.5.4 Search page object . 47
10.5.5 Movie object . 48
10.5.6 Dictionary data object . 48
10.6 Object instances . 49
10.6.1 General . 49
10.6.2 Text object instance . 49
10.6.3 Dictionary data object instance . 71
10.6.4 Image object instance . 77
10.6.5 Sound object instance . 77
10.6.6 Animation object instance . 77
10.6.7 Search page object instance . 78
10.6.8 Movie object instance . 83
Annex A (normative) Color names. 84
Bibliography . 126

Figure 1 – Contents creation/distribution model . 8
Figure 2 – Contents creation/distribution model (modified) . 9
Figure 3 – Relationship between concepts . 9
Figure 4 – XML tree structure . 10
Figure 5 – Example of valign=”middle” . 50
Figure 6 – Example of dropped capital . 54
Figure 7 – Left and right margin of a paragraph . 55
Figure 8 – Horizontal writing in vertical text. 60
Figure 9 – Ruby . 61
Figure 10 – Example of search page object instance rendering . 80

Table 1 – Base characters for reading . 12
Table 2 – Standard character set . 12
Table 3 – Usable characters for a telephone number . 20
Table 4 – Characters usable for email addresses . 20
Table 5 – Characters usable for the lookup key . 40
Table A.1 – Color names . 84
Table A.2 – Examples of additional standard character sets . 85
Table A.3 – Example of additional characters usable for readings . 85
Table A.4 – Example of additional sorting rules . 87

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Table A.5 – Example of additional language specific attributes for . 88

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MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT –
MULTIMEDIA E-PUBLISHING AND E-BOOKS –
INTERCHANGE FORMAT FOR E-DICTIONARIES


FOREWORD
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International Standard IEC 62605 has been prepared by technical area 10: Multimedia e-
publishing and e-book, of IEC technical committee 100: Audio, video and multimedia systems
and equipment.
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100/1829/FDIS 100/1863/RVD

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This publication has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.

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INTRODUCTION
Markets for multimedia e-book and e-publishing require standardization of formats for e-book
data interchange among associated people; authors, data preparers, publishers and readers.
The formats are classified into submission format, interchange format and reader’s format.
The submission format supports an interaction between authors and data preparers. The
reader’s format depends on e-publishing equipment. The interchange format provides an
interchange format for data preparers and publishers and therefore should be e-publishing
equipment independent.
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MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT –
MULTIMEDIA E-PUBLISHING AND E-BOOKS –
INTERCHANGE FORMAT FOR E-DICTIONARIES



1 Scope
This International Standard specifies the interchange format for e-dictionaries among
publishers, content creators and manufacturers.
This International Standard does not address the following aspects:
• data formats for reading devices;
• elements necessary for final print reproduction only;
• rendering issues related to physical devices;
• security issues such as DRM for document.
2 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document.
For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition
of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
IEC/TS 62229:2006, Multimedia systems and equipment – Multimedia e-publishing and e-
book – Conceptual model for multimedia e-publishing
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
3.1
manufacturer
organization or person that manufactures hardware and/or software of the e-book
4 Position and requirements for interchange format for E-dictionaries
4.1 Interchange format for e-dictionaries in contents creation/distribution model
The conceptual model for multimedia e-publishing (IEC/TS 62229) defines a contents
creation/distribution model shown in Figure 1.
Author <--(1)--> Data preparer <--(2)--> Publisher --(3)--> Reader
IEC  1383/11
Key
(1) content data in submission format
(2) content data in interchange format
(3) content data in reader’s format
Figure 1 – Contents creation/distribution model

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It should be noted that the role of manufacturers of e-dictionary hardware and software
overlaps that of the publisher in Figure 1. Therefore, a slightly modified model will be
assumed for this International Standard, as shown in Figure 2.
Author <--(1)--> Data preparer <--(2)--> Publisher (manufacturer) --(3)--> Reader
IEC  1384/11
Figure 2 – Contents creation/distribution model (modified)
This International Standard specifies the interchange format between data preparers and
publishers, i.e. a format for (2) in Figure 2 though it may be used as a reader's format.
4.2 Requirements for interchange format for e-dictionaries
An interchange format for e-dictionaries needs to address the following.
• Description of keywords, links from the keywords to entries (link data) and the order of the
entries.
• Description of articles for each entry (entry data). This includes text, image, and other
multimedia functionalities generally required for e-books.
• Description of bibliographical data and other data. This should include the name of the
author and the publisher, the title of the content and the explanatory note. The relationship
between these concepts is visually represented in Figure 3.
• Description of contents written in various languages.

Entry 1

keyword 1
title


keyword 2

author name

keyword 3 and

publisher name
 :

explanatory note

keyword n
Entry n

:


Entries and
Keywords Link data
Bibliographical data etc.
their order

IEC  1385/11

Figure 3 – Relationship between concepts
5 File format
This International Standard is based on XMDF (as described in IEC 62448:2009, Annex B)
and LeXML. The standard format is represented in XML and hereafter called XMDF-LeXML
format.
NOTE LeXML is proposed by Digital ASSIST Ltd. Its original specifications are found at
http://www.d-assist.com/index.html.

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6 Semantics
Elements of the XMDF-LeXML format can be rendered in accordance with appropriate style
specifications, which are outside the scope of this International Standard.
7 File format details
This Clause specifies the XMDF-LeXML format mentioned in Clause 5.
The XMDF-LeXML format is an interchange format for e-dictionaries multimedia e-book data
interchange, targeted at data preparers and publishers rather than the reader, with an
emphasis on mobile devices as a target platform. Much like HTML, this format does not split
the document in fixed pages, but determines the layout according to the viewer device’s
display size, the font in use, and so on. In this standard, such contents will be referred to as
flowing content, as opposed to paged content.
8 Overview of the format’s structure
Flowing contents are usually composed of several concatenated flows. This standard makes
no particular requirement concerning the way the flowing content should be split into
individual flows. This decision is left to the data preparer, to accommodate the various type of
contents. For instance, a newspaper may have one flow per article, a novel one per chapter,
and so on. It is also possible not to split the content, and to have only one flow. However, it
should be noted that particularly large flows, or an extremely large number of flows, may
impact on runtime performance, depending on the specific version of the viewer in use, the
available memory, and so on.
The XML tree structure of the format is shown in Figure 4.








Content

management

data


There may be
Root
several of flow data

Points to a file name

Object instance


Parts data
Object instance

Object entry can
be repeated
several times
IEC  1386/11

Figure 4 – XML tree structure

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The actual contents of each flow, in other words, what will be displayed by the viewer, is
recorded in the object instance. The object instance is registered in object_entry, and
associated with an ID number and other auxiliary data, turning it into playable / displayable
data. Flow_data determines its content by pointing at such registered objects. In addition,
information on functionalities such as page link is recorded in event_info.
The main part of this standard is generic, and may be used for any country and language.
However, some parts may have language specific behavior. To keep the main part of the
specification reasonably light and focused, those localization-related issues are detailed in
Clause A.2. The main text will refer to them, when appropriate.
9 Elements and attributes
9.1 General
The different types of values that may be used in the various tags or attributes are explained
below. The elements and attributes detailed below will be valid throughout this standard, and
will be referenced by other constructs. In the following explanations, alphanumeric characters
refer to numerals from 0 to 9 and alphabetic letters from a to z and A to Z.
9.
...