[1] The scope is standardization of principles and methods relating to the annotation of temporal events in the contexts of electronic documentation and language.
The goals of ISO-TimeML are to provide a common model for the creation and use of temporal and event annotation, as a means of managing time-related data within documents, and to enable later categorization and data extraction with use of this meta-data.
In this presentation, the preliminaries of ISO-TimeML were outlined, and potential applications were examined.
[2] The ISO-TimeML voting period began in October 2008 and was approved as an international standard by March 2009.
The two level organization forms a coherent family of standards with the following common and simple rules: Joint work between ISO/TC 37/SC 4/WG 2 (TDG 3) and the TimeML Working Group that was agreed on at the TDG 3 and LIRICS Working Group Meeting, USC/ISI, Marina del Rey, CA, U.S.A., 2006-04-20/21/22.