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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 a NWIP for a revision of ISO 3166-1. <ref>[http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Speakers/Debbie_Garside WIKIMANIA2007]</ref> | 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 a NWIP for a revision of ISO 3166-1. <ref>[http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Speakers/Debbie_Garside WIKIMANIA2007]</ref> | ||
Debbie Garside resides in in Wales, UK. In Januray 2010, she was awarded the first recipient of a Prince of Wales Innovation Scholarship (POWIS.<ref>[http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/NewsandEvents/Publications/E-Newsletter/GlobalAcademyNews.aspx]</ref> | Debbie Garside resides in in Wales, UK. In Januray 2010, she was awarded the first recipient of a Prince of Wales Innovation Scholarship (POWIS.<ref>[http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/NewsandEvents/Publications/E-Newsletter/GlobalAcademyNews.aspx University of Wales]</ref> | ||
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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).[1]
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 a NWIP for a revision of ISO 3166-1. [2]
Debbie Garside resides in in Wales, UK. In Januray 2010, she was awarded the first recipient of a Prince of Wales Innovation Scholarship (POWIS.[3]
Career History[edit | edit source]
- 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 been appointed to the ccNSO-GAC IDN Joint WG; a committee that is charged by ICANN with investigating solutions for the Internationalization of ccTLDs.
- She is a named contributor to RFC4647, the Internet Engineering Task Force standard for Language Tag Matching. She ia 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.[4]
- 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.
- Currently Debbie is serving as the Managing Director GeoLang Ltd and the CEO of World Language Documentation Centre (WLDC).