Debbie Garside

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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).Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

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 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.[1]
  • 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).

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