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'''Debbie Garside''' is the Project Leader, Editor and Head of Research for [[ISO 639-6]]; she is also Managing Director of [[GeoLang]] Ltd. and Chief Executive Officer of the World Language Documentation Centre ([[WLDC]]).<ref>[http://icannwiki.org/Debbie_Garside ICANNWiki.org]</ref>
[[Category:People|Debbie Garside]]
Debbie has been involved in language standards for over 5 years and is Convenor of ISO TC37/SC2/WG1/TG2 the committee responsible for [[ISO 639-6]] Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages - Alpha4 Code for comprehensive coverage of language variants as well as the mirror committee within [[BSI]] in the UK; TS/1/-1. Debbie is also Liaison to [[BSI]] (British Standards Institute) IDT/2/11, and has represented [[BSI]] during TC46/WG2 meetings with regard to country codes; she is currently preparing an NWIP for a revision of [[ISO 3166-1]].<ref>[http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Speakers/Debbie_Garside WIKIMANIA2007]</ref>
Debbie Garside resides in Wales, UK. In January 2010, she was the first recipient awarded a Prince of Wales Innovation Scholarship.<ref>[http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/NewsandEvents/Publications/E-Newsletter/GlobalAcademyNews.aspx University of Wales]</ref>
==Career History==
* Debbie Garside was appointed by [[BSI]] as project leader for a new standard for the Internationalization of Country Codes in March 2007.
* She has been appointed to the [[ccNSO]]-[[GAC]] IDN Joint WG; a committee that is charged by [[ICANN]] with investigating solutions for the Internationalization of [[ccTLD]]s.
* She is a named contributor to RFC4647, the Internet Engineering Task Force standard for Language Tag Matching. She is also an active member in the [[IETF]]-language forum as well as the [[IETF]] LTRU forum. Debbie's interests span many fields but primary to this is her interest in facilitating a multi-lingual internet and multi-lingual thesauri.
* She is a former member at the Advisory Board of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]].<ref>[http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board#Debbie_Garside Wikimedia Foundation]</ref>
* She has most recently accepted an invitation as a board member of [[MINC]] (Multilingual Internet Names Consortium) and has been made project leader for the South Slavic Culture and Trade Engine (project name to be agreed) in partnership with OmegaWiki.
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