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ISCC Project Committees

Project Committee 51: Guide to Material Standards
Project Committee 52: Comparative List of Color Terms II
Project Committee 53: Annotated "Webliography" of Color
Project Committee 54: Colors of Maximum Contrast

Project Committee 51: Guide to Material Standards (Complete)

Dr. Art Springsteen (Chair)
Avian Technologies
1 Morgan Ridge Road
P.O. Box 365
New London, NH 03257-1076
avian@kear.tds.net

Scope:
  1. To collect information on new material standards for color and appearance measurement, their suppliers, and their characteristics.
  2. To collect recent references to the literature of measurement, calibration, and standardization of color and appearance instrumentation for revision and modernization of the literature citations of ISCC Technical Report TR 89-1.
  3. To collect new terms for the glossary, and to check acccuracy of current terms by comparing with authoritative terminology sources such as ASTM E-284 and CIE Publication 17.4.
  4. To revise the current text of TR 89-1 to be complete and up-to-date with modern practice.

Project Committee 52: Comparative List of Color Terms II (Complete)

Dr. Ellen Carter (Chair)
Minolta Corporation
Crossroads Corp. Ctr.
1 International Blvd.
Mahwah, NJ 07495
tel: 201-529-6064
fax: 201-529-6061
ecarter@minolta.com

Purpose:
The ISCC Comparative List of Color Terms was first published in 1949, but the supply has been exhausted. While many terms are still useful and have not changed, the usage of others has evolved, and new terms have come into common appeared and should be added. Therefore, there is a need to update the orginial publication. The original publication is available now as a 9.1MB PDF.

Scope:
  1. To review the terms included in the original comparative list for current accuracy and appropriateness.
  2. To solicit member bodies for new terms to be added.
  3. To compare and contrast definitions and usage of terms in various disciplines and from other dictionaries or lists of color terms, identifying the source(s) of definitions(s) of each term.

Objective:
To publish as an approved ISCC publication, the ISCC Comparative List of Color Terms II by 2003.
The project committee was approved by the ISCC Board of Directors in February 2000.

Project Committee 53: Annotated "Webliography" of Color

Dr. Michael H. Brill (Chair)
David Sarnoff Research Center
CN 5300
Princeton NJ 08543
tel: 609-734-3037
fax: 609-734-2662
mbrill@sarnoff.com

Purpose:
To enhance the ISCC's website so as to promote the ISCC's role as a nexus for color information exchange. Other websites exist that are excellent sources of color information, and hence web-linking resources to the ISCC. Such links would be the subject of ISCC deliberation, and would fall in a category separate from the current member links.

Scope:
  1. To develop a list of criteria that will be used to select a website for annotation/citation.
  2. To provide a first selection of websites for citation according to the criteria.
  3. To organise the selection into an annotated list for incorporation on the ISCC website.
  4. To provide rules for updating the resulting Annotated "Webliography".
  5. To transition the effort to a standing committee that will review and update the webliography periodically.

Objective:
To publish as an approved ISCC office document the list of criteria and the rules for updating the webliography, and to post an initial webliography, by 2002.
The project committee was approved by the ISCC Board of Directors in February 2000.

Project Committee 54: Colors of Maximum Contrast

Mr. Hugh S. Fairman
(Co-chair)
503 Bradley Court
Princeton NJ 08540
tel: 609-430-1630
fax: 609-430-1618
resourceiii@erols.com
 Mr. Ralph Stanziola
(Co-chair)
Industrial Color Technology
410 Clover Street
Neshanic Station, NJ 08853
tel: 908-369-8736
fax: 908-369-8736
rascolor@juno.com

Purpose:
There is a need to revise and republish the work of Project Committee #26. This work was completed in 1964 and was published in Color Engineering, November-December, 1965, page 26. This publication named twenty-two colors that were said to be maximally different from each other. In the light of modern developments in color measurement and specification as well as expansion of the producible surface color gamut, these colors are no longer thought to be the optimal set of colors of highest contrast to each other.

The Committee will:
  1. Select an appropriate number of colors of maximum contrast to be published.
  2. Select the colors to be published taking into account both surface color and applications where color is generated electronically.
  3. Publish one or more color cards representing the colors with supporting data in several notations.
  4. Complete the project by spring of 2002.
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