Industry associations

The aim of this page is to provide links to associations, industry consortia and standards organisations with interests in the area of interactive electronic publishing.

Lists of computer and communication related organisations
URL: http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/orgs.html

List of French multi media associations
URL: http://www.mosaique.fr/multimedia/associat/index.htm

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
URL: http://www.acm.org

ADSL Forum
URL: http://adsl.com/

ANSI
URL: http://www.ansi.org/

ASP (Application Service Providers) Industry Consortium (INT)
URL: http://www.allaboutasp.org/

ATM Forum
URL: http://www.atmforum.com

Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences
URL: http://www.interactive.org

Advanced Television Forum (ATV Forum)
URL: ATV Forum http://www.atvforum.com/

Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC)
URL: http://www.atsc.org

Advanced Television Enhancement Forum (ATVEF)
URL: http://www.atvef.com/

Agent Society
URL: http://www.agent.org

Application Service Provider Consortium (INT)
Companies promoting the application service provider industry by: "sponsoring research, fostering standards, and articulating the measurable benefits of this evolving delivery model".
URL: http://www.aspindustry.org

Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
URL: http://www.amico.org

Association for Applied Interactive Multimedia
URL: http://www.aaim.org

Association for Biometrics (AfB)
URL: http://www.afb.org.uk/

Association for Interactive Marketing (AIM)
URL: http://www.imarketing.org/

Association Belge Multimedia / Belgische Multimedia Vereniging
URL: mailto:adj.mediamix@skynet.be

Asociacion Espanola de Empresas de Multimedia (ASEDEM)
URL: http://www.asedem.org

Association for the Development of Virtual Learning
URL: http://www.adev.es/

Association Francaise de la Telematique Multimedia (AFTEL)
URL: http://www.aftel.fr/

Association Francaise de l'Edition Electronique (AFEE) / Association Francaise de l'Edition Multimedia (AFEM)
URL: http://www.afee.org/

Association of Interactive Media
URL: http://www.interactivehq.org/

Association for Information & Image Management
URL: http://www.aiim.org

Association of Knowledgework
URL: http://www.kwork.org/

Association for Learning Technology (ALT) (UK)
URL: http://www.alt.ac.uk

Association for Multimedia Communications
URL: http://www.amcomm.org

Association of Multimedia Developers (Japan)
URL: http://www.amd.or.jp/

Association of Shareware Professionals (INT)
URL: http://www.asp-shareware.org/

Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association (AU)
URL: http://www.aimia.com.au

Australasian Web Publishers Association (AU)
URL: http://www.awpa.asn.au

Belux XML Users Group
URL: http://www.xmlbelux.be/

BioAPI Consortium (INT)
URL: http://www.bioapi.org/

Biometric Consortium
URL: http://www.biometrics.org/

Biometric Industry Consortium
URL: http://www.ibia.org/

BioAPI Consortium
URL: http://www.bioapi.org/

BioSEC Alliance (INT)
URL: http://www.BioSEC.com/

British Music Information Centre
URL: http://www.bmic.co.uk/

British Phonographic Industry (BPI)
URL: http://www.bpi.co.uk

British Interactive Multimedia Association (BIMA)
URL: http://www.bima.co.uk

Broadband Content Delivery Forum (BCDF) (INT)
URL: http://www.bcdforum.org/

Bundesverband der phonographischen Wirtschaft
URL: http://www.ifpi.de

Business & Accounting Software Developers' Association (BASDA)
URL: http://www.basda.org/

CDMA Development Group
URL: http://www.cdg.org

CEN - European Committee for Standardisation
URL: http://www.cen.be/

CENELEC
URL: http://www.cenelec.be/

Cell Broadcast Forum (CBF)
URL: http://www.cellbroadcastforum.org

Cooperative Association of Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
URL: http://www.caida.org

Commission Superieure Technique de l'Image et du Son CST
URL: http://www.cst.fr

Computer Graphics Society
URL: http://cgswww.unige.ch/

Content Alliance (to advance content networking and content peering)
URL: http://www.content-peering.org/

Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)
URL: http://www.cla.co.uk/

"Creative Commons"
URL: http://www.creativecommons.org/

DVD Forum (INT)
URL: http://www.dvdforum.org/

Danish Music Information Centre
URL: http://www.mic.dk

Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA)
URL: http://www.disa.org

Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF)
URL: http://www.dmtf.org

Deutscher Multimedia Verband (DMMV)
URL: http://www.dmmv.de/

Digital Audio Visual Interoperability Council (DAVIC) (INT)
URL: http://www.davic.org/

Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)
URL: http://www.digra.org/

Digital Media Association (DiMA) (INT)
URL: http://www.digmedia.org/

Digital Object Identifier Group (DOI) (INT)
URL: http://www.doi.org

Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) (INT)
URL: http://www.dvb.org

Directory Interoperability Forum (INT)
URL: http://www.directoryforum.org

E-Book Newsstand Association
URL: http://www.ebna.org/

ETSI
URL: http://www.etsi.org/

Electronic and Multimedia Publishing (BCS specialist group)
URL: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/support/cc/staff/malcolm/bcs-emp.html

Embedded Linux Consortium
URL: http://www.embedded-linux.org/

Eurocontent.com (Euro Net Broadcasting Consortium)
URL: http://www.eurocontent.com/

Eurographics Association (EG)
URL: http://www.eg.org

European Association of Consumer Electronics Manufacturers
URL: http://www.eacem.be/index.htm developing software for consumer devices

European Broadcasting Union
URL: http://www.ebu.ch

European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA)
URL: http://www.eblida.org/ Independent umbrella association of national library, information, documentation and archive associations and institutions in Europe. Maintains a list of related European associations at: http://www.eblida.org/eurasso.htm.

European Cable Communications Association
URL: http://www.ecca.be

European Electronic Messaging Association
URL: http://www.eema.org

European Internet Industry Association (EIIA)
URL: http://www.decade.be/eiia/home.htm

European Interactive Media Federation (EIMF)
URL: http://www.eimf.org. See also: AFEE, DMMV, SIMA, ASEDEM or ABMM.

European Intellectual Property Association (EIPAWEB)
URL: http://www.eipaweb.org/
Represents over 100 non-governmental and other not-for-profit organisations interested in protection of the intellectual property of all Europeans.

European Institute for the Media
URL: http://www.eim.org/

European Language Resources Association
URL: http;//www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/
Speech, text, and terminology resources and tools for telematics R&D

European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA)
URL: http://www.elspa.com/ Also the site for the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association

European Multimedia Forum
URL: http://www.emf.be/

European Newspaper Publishers Association
URL: http://www.enpa.be/

European Software Institute (ESI)
URL: http://www.esi.es/

Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC)
Messaging formats for e-commerce
URL: http://www.fstc.org/

Finnish Music Information Centre
URL: http://www.fimic.fi

Foundation for Intelligent Physical Robots (Agent standardisation)
URL: http://drogo.cselt.it/fipa/

GPRS Applications Alliance (GAA) (INT)
URL: http://www.gprsworld.com/

GSM Association (INT)
URL: http://www.gsm.org

Game Theory Society (INT)
URL: http://www.gametheorysociety.org/

Global Chipcard Alliance (GCA)
URL: http://www.chipcard.org

Global Internet Project
URL: http://www.gip.org/

Global Mobile Suppliers Association
URL: http://www.gsassociation.org/

Global Mobile Commerce Forum (GMCF) (INT)
URL: http://www.GMCForum.com/

Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) (INT)
URL: http://www.homepna.org/

HomeRF Working Group
URL: http://www.homerf.org/

HR-XML XML vocabularies for human resources consortium
URL: http://www.hr-xml.org/channels/home.htm

HTML Writers Guild
URL: http://www.hwg.org/

ICT Standards Board
URL: http://www.ict.etsi.fr/home.htm

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
URL: http://www.ieee.org

IEEE Communications Society
URL: http://www.comsoc.org

IEEE Computer Society
URL: http://computer.org

IFRA (worldwide technical association for the newspaper industry)
URL: IFRA http://www.ifra.com/

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) Forum (INT)
URL: IPv6 Forum http://www.ipv6forum.com/

IP Television Alliance
URL: http://www.minervanetworks.com/alliance/home.htm

Independent Games Developers Association (TIGA)
URL: http://www.tiga.org.uk/

Information and Communications Industry Association (ICIA)
URL: ICIA http://www.icia.co.uk/

Information Society Standarisation System (ISSS)
URL: http://www.cenorm.be/isss

Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
URL: http://www.itic.com

Infrared Data Association (IrDA)
URL: http://www.irda.org/

Institut de l'Audiovisuel et des Telecommunications en Europe (IDATE)
URL: http://www.idate.fr

Institute for Information Architecture (AIFIA)
URL: http://www.aifia.org/

Interactive Audio Special Interest Group
URL: http://www.iasig.org

Interactive CD-i Association ICDIA
URL: http://www.icdia.org/

Interactive Media in Retail Group
http://www.imrg.org

Interactive MPEG-2 Forum (INT)
URL: membership information mailto:tbennett@uakron.edu

Interactive Multimedia Arts and Technologies Association (CA)
URL: http://www.imat.ca/

Interactive Multimedia Association
Merged into Sofware Publishers Association, URL: http://www.spa.org/

Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE)
URL: http://www.isfeurope.org

International Association of Independent Music (AIM)
URL: http://www.musicindie.org/

International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC)
URL: http://www.iamic.ie

International Association for Newspaper & Media Technology (IFRA)
URL: http://www.ifra.com/

International Communications Industries Association
URL: http://www.icia.org/ - AV / presentation industry

International Digital Enterprise Alliance (IDEAlliance)
URL: http://www.IDEAlliance.org/ - e-commerce interoperability standards coordination

International Digital Media and Arts Association
URL: http://www.idmaa.org/

International eBook Association (IeBA)
URL: http://www.iebaf.org/

International Federation of Independent Phonographic Producers (FIPI)
URL: http://www.fipi.org/

International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
URL: http://www.ifip.or.at/

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
URL: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla

International Federation of Multimedia Associations (IFMA) (INT)
URL: http://www.fiam.org

International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)
URL: http://www.ifpi.org/

International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) Finland
URL: http://www.ifpi.fi

International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations' (IFRRO)
URL: http://www.copyright.com/ifrro/
Site has directory of RROs worldwide.

International Game Developers Association
URL: http://www.igda.org/

International Imaging Industry Association (I3A)
URL: http://www.i3a.org

International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium (IMTC)
URL: http://www.imtc.org/

International Newspaper Marketing Association
URL: http://www.inma.org/
Multilingual site (de, en, es, fr)

International Press Telecommunications Council (INT)
URL: http://www.iptc.org/

International Publishers' Association
URL: http://www.ipa-uie.org

International Telecommunications Union (ITU) (INT)
URL: http://www.itu.int/

Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB)
URL: http://www.iab.net setting standards for assessing web-based advertising, has European advisory committee.

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
URL: http://www.isi.edu/iana

Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF)
URL: http://www.ietf.org

Internet Security Alliance (ISA)
URL: http://www.isalliance.org/

Internet Society
URL: http://www.isoc.org/

Internet Software Consortium (ISC)
URL: http://www.isc.org

Internet Telephony Consortium
URL: http://itel.mit.edu

Irish Internet Association
URL: http://www.iia.ie/

Japanese Multimedia Forum
URL: http://www.ciaj.or.jp/

Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
URL: http://wwwsoc.nacsis.ac.jp/jsai/

Khronos Group (cross-platform graphics API consortium)
URL: http://www.khronos.org

Liberty Alliance Project (online identity)
URL: http://www.projectliberty.org/

Location Interoperability Forum (INT)
URL: http://www.locationforum.org/

London VR SIG (LVRG)
URL: http://www.lvrg.org.uk/

MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF)
URL: http://www.m4if.org/

Media Asset Management Association (MAMA)
URL: MAMA http://www.mamgroup.org

Meta Data Coalition (INT)
URL: http://www.mdcinfo.com/

Mobey Forum (to encourage the use of mobile technology in financial services) (INT)
URL: http://www.mobeyforum.org/

Mobile Data Association
URL: http://www.mda-mobiledata.org

Mobile Payment Forum
URL: http://www.mobilepaymentforum.org/

Mobile Payment Services Association
URL: http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/Feb2003/4973.htm

Multimedia Home Platform Forum
URL: http://www.mhp-forum.de/

Multimedia Services Affiliate Forum
URL: http://www.msaf.org/

Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium
URL: http://www.imtc.org

Museum Documentation Association (MDA) (UK)
URL: http://www.mda.org.uk

Music Publishers Association (UK)
URL: http://www.mpaonline.org.uk

Object Database Management Group (ODMG)
URL: http://www.odmg.org/

Object Management Group (OMG)
URL: http://www.omg.org/

Online Publishers Association
URL: http://www.online-publishers.org/

Open Archives Forum (OA-Forum)
URL: http://www.oaforum.org/

Open eBook Forum
URL: http://www.openebook.org/

OpenGIS Consortium (OGC) - INT
URL: http://www.opengis.org/

Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)
URL: http://www.openmobilealliance.org

Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA)
URL:http://www.osta.org

Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) - INT
Formerly SGML Open
URL: http://www.oasis-open.org

Parlay Group (multi-vendor consortium developing technology independent API for mobile networks)
URL: http://www.parlay.org

Personalization Consortium (INT)
URL: http://www.personalization.org/

Pro-MPEG Forum (INT)
URL: http://www.pro-mpeg.org

Publishers Association
URL: http://www.publishers.org.uk/

Reality Centre SIG
URL: http://www.sgi.com/global/uk/centre/rcsig/index.html

SALT (Speech Application Language Tags) Forum
URL: http://www.saltforum.org/

Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) - INT
URL: http://www.sdmi.org

Semantic Web Services Consortium (SWSC)
URL: http://swsc.semanticweb.org/

Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO)
URL: http://www.sisostds.org/

Smart Card Industry Association (SCIA)
URL: http://www.scia.org

Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers
URL: http://www.smpte.org/

Software & Information Industry Association
URL: http://www.siia.net/

Software Defined Radio Forum
URL: http://www.sdrforum.org/mmits.html

Spanish CAD CAM & Desktop Publishing Association (ANCAE)
URL: http://www.ancae.org

Spanish Multimedia Federation (FEDEMM)
URL: http://www.fedemm.org

Streaming Media Alliance (INT)
URL: http://www.geocities.com/streamalliance/

Swedish Music Publishers Association
URL: http://www.smff.se/

Swiss Interactive Multimedia Association (SIMA)
URL: http://www.sima.ch/

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) (INT)
URL: http://www.tei-c.org/

Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) (INT)
URL: http://www.3gpp.org

3D Consortium
URL: press release http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/030304.html

InterForum (UK ICT Forum)
URL: http://www.interforum.org/

UK SGML Users' Group
URL: admin@sgmluk.freeserve.co.uk

UK VR Forum
URL: http://www.ukvrforum.org.uk

UK VR-SIG
URL: http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/groups/ukvrsig/

Ultra Wideband Working Group
URL: http://www.uwb.org/

Unicode Consortium
URL: http://www.unicode.org

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Forum
URL: http://www.umts-forum.org/

UMTS Development Partnership (INT)
URL: http://www.umts-dp.com/

Universal Plug and Play Forum (INT)
URL: http://www.upnp.org/

Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC)
URL: http://www.uwcc.org/

Usability Professionals Association
URL: http://www.upassoc.org

Verband Privater Rundfunk und Telekommunikation e.V. (VPRT)
URL: http://www.vprt.de/

Verband fur Informationswirtschaft (VIW) (AT)
URL: http://www.viw.or.at/

Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA)
URL: http://www.vesa.org/

Virtual Reality Society
URL: http://www.vrs.org.uk/

VoiceXML Forum (INT)
URL: http://www.voicexml.org

Web3D Consortium
URL: http://www.web3d.org

Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
URL: http://wi-consortium.org/

Web Services Interoperability Organisation / Forum (WS-I)
URL: http://www.ws-i.org/

Web Standards Project (WSP)
URL: http://www.webstandards.org

Wi-Fi Alliance
URL: http://www.wi-fi.org/

WiMedia Alliance
URL: http://www.wimedia.org/

Wireless Advertising Association
URL: http://www.waaglobal.org/

Wireless Internet Protocol Partnership (WIPP) (INT)
URL: http://www.tiaonline.org/standards/wipp/

Wireless Location Industry Association (INT)
URL: http://www.wliaonline.com/

Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) (INT)
URL: http://www.wfmc.org

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C )
URL: http://www.w3.org/

Wireless Multimedia Forum (INT)
URL: http://www.wmmforum.com/about_wmf.htm

Wireless Application Protocol Forum (INT)
URL: http://www.wapforum.org

World Organization of Webmasters
URL: http://www.world-webmasters.org/

X-ACT (XML vendor group)
URL: http://www.x-act.org

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