Dan Connolly received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. His research interests include investigating the value of formal descriptions of chaotic systems like the Web, particularly in the consensus-building process, and the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web is a project that intends to create a universal medium for information exchange by giving meaning (semantics), in a manner understandable by machines, to the content of documents on the Web. ...

He became involved with distributed hypertext systems and SGML in 1992. He co-created one of the early HTML validators. He was the chair of the IETF Working Group that produced HTML 2.0. He joined W3C in 1994 and chaired the W3C Working Group that produced HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0. Together with Jon Bosak he formed the W3C XML Working Group that created the W3C XML 1.0 Recommendation. The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is a metalanguage in which one can define markup languages for documents. ... The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is charged with developing and promoting Internet standards. ... In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. ... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public, work together to develop standards for the World Wide Web. ... In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. ... In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages and other information viewable in a browser. ... Jon Bosak led the creation of the XML specification at the W3C. Tim Bray, who was one of the editors of the XML specification, has this to say in his note on Bosak in his annotated version of the spec: Jon Bosak is the single person without whose efforts XML... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ...

Dan chairs the RDF Data Access Working Group, and serves on the W3C Technical Architecture Group and the Web Ontology Working Group. He is involved in the application of RDF to calendaring software. Technical Architecture Group, a body of W3C. (from TAG charter) Currently (August 2005), Tim Berners-Lee is the Chair of the TAG. Other members are: Dan Connolly (W3C) Roy Fielding (Day Software) Noah Mendelsohn (IBM) David Orchard (BEA) Vincent Quint (INRIA) Ed Rice (HP) Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh) Norm... RDF can refer to: Radical Dance Faction a band from the UK. Radio direction finder, a device for finding the direction to a radio source. ...

External links

Dan Connolly's home page at W3C