XML Technology Certification Committee
Organization
Chairman
Nobuo Saito
W3C Associate Chair for Asia
Vice Chairman
Yoichiro
Hirano
President & CEO Infoteria Corporation
Keizo Okabe
OASIS Japan c/o
Adviser
Makoto Murata
Participating Members
- Foreign Information Industry Forum
- FUJITSU LIMITED
- Global Knowledge, Inc
- Hitachi, Ltd
- Hitachi Systems & Services, Ltd
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IBM Japan, Ltd
- Infoteria Corporation
- NEC Corporation
- NEC Soft, Ltd
- PFU, Ltd
- XML Consortium
Message from the Chairman
| Nobuo Saito Chairman XML Technology Certification Committee Chairperson W3C Associate Chair for Asia Professor emeritus at Keio University |
The evolution of today’s information society is causing a greater transformation among humankind than perhaps any since the Industrial Revolution. The motive force behind this change has been the invention and rapid technological advancement of the computer—more especially the advance of the computer network, as can be seen in the Internet and its enormous influence on our lives. The Internet began its spread throughout Japan in 1994, and now documents and other information can be created, distributed, and viewed across the World Wide Web, independent of operating system or software. This portability of information has been a significant influence in changing the shape of our information society. In 1996, the World Wide Web international consortium (W3C) began working on standards for XML, which promised the advantage of freely marking up and defining individual pieces of data, adding more utility to the information formatting capacity of HTML. XML has made it possible to automate various processes within the computer, and XML will continue to be one technology that contributes greatly to the future development of our information society.
