I’m Liam Quin, an information architect and standards advocate who helps organizations represent information in ways that power business processes and unlock new products and markets. I helped deploy early SGML, contributed to the first HTML standard, advised the W3C on XML, and led XML standardization efforts at W3C. I believe open architectures and standard formats protect investments, ease migration, and make skills and software easier to acquire. My background blends computer science, digital typography, text formatting, and graphic design. I led consulting at SoftQuad, did pre-sales, and served as a bridge between developers and documenters. I contribute to open source and free software, work on font technology and image tools (GIMP), and have built systems that search complex XML and RDF data with on-the-fly query generation (XQuery).

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I’m Liam Quin, an information architect and standards advocate who helps organizations represent information in ways that power business processes and unlock new products and markets. I helped deploy early SGML, contributed to the first HTML standard, advised the W3C on XML, and led XML standardization efforts at W3C. I believe open architectures and standard formats protect investments, ease migration, and make skills and software easier to acquire. My background blends computer science, digital typography, text formatting, and graphic design. I led consulting at SoftQuad, did pre-sales, and served as a bridge between developers and documenters. I contribute to open source and free software, work on font technology and image tools (GIMP), and have built systems that search complex XML and RDF data with on-the-fly query generation (XQuery).

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I’m Liam Quin, an information architect and standards advocate who helps organizations represent information in ways that power business processes and unlock new products and markets. I helped deploy early SGML, contributed to the first HTML standard, advised the W3C on XML, and led XML standardization efforts at W3C. I believe open architectures and standard formats protect investments, ease migration, and make skills and software easier to acquire.

My background blends computer science, digital typography, text formatting, and graphic design. I led consulting at SoftQuad, did pre-sales, and served as a bridge between developers and documenters. I contribute to open source and free software, work on font technology and image tools (GIMP), and have built systems that search complex XML and RDF data with on-the-fly query generation (XQuery).

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Work Experience

Head of Delightful Computing at Delightful Computing
January 1, 2023 - October 17, 2025
Providing in-depth training and consulting in XML, information, CSS, accessibility and related areas; clients included IEEE, Mulberry Technologies, Kaplan, LinkedIn, Google; involved in QT4 effort at W3C to standardize XSLT 4, XPath 4 and possibly XQuery 4; editor for a set of proposed changes to ISO/IEC 14496-22 (Open Font Format).
XSLT Engineer at Paligo AB
January 1, 2022 - October 17, 2025
Involved in XSL-FO, PHP, XSLT, and XSpec work; noted period affected by illness; returned to Delightful Computing full time.
Head of Delightful Computing at Delightful Computing
January 1, 2021 - October 17, 2025
Head of Delightful Computing, providing in-depth training and consulting in XML, information, CSS, accessibility and more.
XML Activity Lead at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
January 1, 2018 - October 17, 2025
Led XML-related standards work (XML, XML Schema, XPath, XQuery, XSLT, XSL-FO, XProc, CSS, Web Fonts); liaison with ISO, IETF; MIT affiliation during tenure; contributed to accessibility, e-publishing, and XML pipeline efforts.
Consultant at Wiley Interscience Ltd
January 1, 2001 - October 17, 2025
Web version of a large encyclopedia; mathematics rendering; early use of MathML and XSLT in publishing workflows.
Consultant at Bombardier Inc.
January 1, 1999 - October 17, 2025
Toronto-based projects on the production of aircraft manuals; presented papers on SGML and XML at conferences.
Employee at Groveware Inc.
January 1, 1998 - October 17, 2025
Toronto startup; product development and consulting; experience with venture capital dynamics.
Head of Consulting at SoftQuad Inc.
January 1, 1997 - October 17, 2025
Led consulting, pre-sales, and document conversion; technical lead for SoftQuad Panorama and HoTMetaL; participated in IETF HTML Working Group and W3C SGML/XLink activities.
Programmer at Unixsys (UK) Ltd.
January 1, 1990 - October 17, 2025
Ported troff-based text formatting to Unix systems; pre-sales support and documentation; engaged in standards discussions at BSI.
Independent at Independent
January 1, 1986 - October 17, 2025
Freelance work on text formatting; troff customization and related documentation.

Education

BSc in Computer Science with Honours at University of Warwick
January 1, 1981 - January 1, 1984
Upper School at Samuel Whitbread Upper School
January 1, 1976 - January 1, 1981

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Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Education