Current activities

• On migration to Perpetual Enterprise System - record
• Electronic Product Information (ePI)
• Limes Luxemburgensis
• Tiza - A Hello World map with popup using OpenStreetMap and Leaflet
• cubero - estimated translation cost of all the European Union institutions/bodies since 1952
• Diálogo de la Lengua - DILE Project
• Puerta del Arenal
• auer.lu
• Parallel Documents
• EU-UK institutional framework
• To do: Multilingual Web Sites - asignatura pendiente

Event organiser

• The Luxembourg BabelNet Workshop - March 2016 - co-organiser - synset
• Luxembourg Apertium Workshop - May 2011
• Web Internationalization & Multilinguism Symposium - November 1996 - W3C event - chairman

WWW Conferences

• 3 - 1995 - Darmstadt
  • BOF organiser for internationalization & multilingualism
  • On the multilingual normalization of the Web - poster paper
• 4 - 1995 - Boston
  • Web Internationalization and Multilinguism (WInter) - BOF organiser
  • WInter (Web Internationalization) - poster paper
• 5 - 1996 - Paris
  • Web Internationalization & Multilinguism - BOF organiser
  • WInter (Web Internationalization & Multilinguism) - position paper for the Internationalization workshop - call
• 6 - 1997 - Santa Clara
  • Multilingualism and Internationalization - panelist - slides
  • Web Multilingual Issues - chair memo
  • Chairman of the track Producing products for the international markets
  • Chairman of the Panel Producing Products for International Markets Report to Developers: Initiatives and Standards
  • Chairman of the Panel Producing Products for International Markets: Getting Started with Multilingualism on the World Wide Web
  • Co-chairman of the WInter Panel - Conference
  • Panelist in The Web of Business-to-Business Commerce
• 8 - 1999 - Toronto
  • Participant
• 9 - 2000 - Amsterdam
  • The Multilingual Web: anything missing ? - panel moderator
  • XML Track - participant
• 10 - 2001 - Hong Kong
  • Participant
• 12 - 2003 - Budapest
  • Participant
• 15 - 2006 - Edinburgh
  • Multilingual Web Sites - BOF organiser
• 17 - 2008 - Beijing
  • Multilingual Web Sites - BOF organiser
• 18 - 2009 - Madrid
  • Program editor
  • Register editor
  • Panel on Multilingual Web Sites - moderator
  • Open architecture for multilingual web sites - chair memo - updated
  • BOF - track chair
  • Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009) - participant
  • Social Web Camp - W3C Track - participant - video
• 20 - 2011 - Hyderabad
  • Participant
• 21 - 2012 - Lyon
  • Participant
• 27 - 2018 - Lyon
  • International Projects - cochair - details
  • Panel: International Projects - moderator - details
  • Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2018) - participant
  • Researcher Centric Scholarly Communication - participant
  • 3rd International Workshop on Linked Data and Distributed Ledgers - participant

MultilingualWeb

In all the workshops: partner and in the program committees.

• 2010 Madrid: The Multilingual Web – Where are we?
• 2011 Pisa: Content on the Multilingual Web
  • Standards for multilingual web sites - presentation
• 2011 Limerick: A Local Focus for the Multilingual Web
• 2012 Luxembourg: The Multilingual Web – the Way Ahead
  • Host - local organiser
  • Multilingual Web Sites - break-out group notes
• 2012 Dublin: The Multilingual Web – Linked Open Data and Multilingual Technologies
• 2013 Rome: Making the Multilingual Web Work
• 2014 Madrid: New Horizons for the MultilingualWeb
  • Big Multilingual Linked Data (BigMu)
• 2015 Riga: Data, content and services for the Multilingual Web

Parallel Documents

• Workshop on the Generation of Multilingual Parallel Documents - 3 April 2017 - slides
• Generation of Multilingual Parallel Documents - 10 October 2017 - Brussels - LT Industry Summit

More

• Paris Web 2018 - participant
• An overview of the European Union’s highly multilingual parallel corpora - 2014
• Codes for language transformation - expired Internet-Draft - 1998
• DGT-Acquis
• Processing of EU Multilingual Corpora - presentation - PROPOR2016 - notes - 2016
• Tags for Identifying Languages - BCP 47 - contributor - 2005
• Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) - RFC 3987 - contributor - 2006
• Primary Language in HTML - W3C Note - 1998
• Fourth MT Marathon, 25-30 January 2010, Dublin
  • Language Factory - presentation
  • Straw poll on the re-writing of Moses
  • Moses2 - follow-up proposal - updated
• IT aspects of the euro currency sign - 1998
• Open architecture for multilingual social networking - W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, 15-16 January 2009, Barcelona
• Human and Machine Format (HMformat)
• Web Data
• W3C Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group
• Presentations from the Second to the Seventh WWW Concertation Meetings, organized by the European Commission.
• The Multilingual Semantic Web - Dagstuhl Seminar - December 2012
• Multilingual Electronic Dossier (MED)
• Xdossier.
• Open architecture for multilingual parallel texts
• ICANN Meetings in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg - participant - 2005
• www-international mailing list - creator - 1995
• Speaker at the Euro-Med Net 98 Conference
• Auer
• Member of the jury for the European WWW Business Award'96.
• The Web of Babel ?. IPTS Report, May 1997 (The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies). Co-author.
• WInter Symposium - A report. Tenth International Unicode Conference (Mainz).
• Natural language marking in HTML.
• Multilingual Parallel Hypertext. Tenth International Unicode Conference (San Jose).

Law marking

• Big Multilingual Linked Data, poster at the European Data Forum 2015 (EDF2015)
• European Uniform Resource Identifier (EURI)
• DGT-Acquis
• Legal Acts Format (LAF)
• Compact Uniform Resource Identifier (COMURI)
• On Access Control for Seamless Legislative Architecture - 2009

Regulatory Affairs

• Member of the EU Regulatory Delegation in the Expert Working Group M2 in ICH; i.e., the group that developed the Electronic Common Technical Document (eCTD). As such, major contributor to the eCTD.
• Co-author of the EU Module 1.
• Editor of the eCTD Template.
• Author of the eCTDer.
• Proponent and designer of the original Product Information Management (PIM). See also the Structured Product Information (SPI).

Electronic Commerce

• Rapporteur for the working group multilingualism. G7 Project A Global Marketplace for SMEs.

Newspaper articles

• La "ñ" puede viajar por el Internet. Articulo en el CommunicationsWeek International.
• Ofímatica para grandes organismos. Artículo en El País.
• El sistema integrado. Articulo en El País.
• Comentarios sobre estrategia informática. Articulo en El País.

Miscellaneous

• European Commission (Ret.)
• Former Individual Member of Unicode.
• Posix Pioneer (Computer Society, IEEE).
• Spanish: mother tongue. English and French: fluent. Italian: good. German: not so good.
• Playing with Unix, Internet, ... for over 40 years.

Education

• B.Sc. Computers & Maths, University of London
• Diploma in French Language and Civilisation, Catholic University, Lyons, France
• Ph.D. work in European Politics (not completed), University of London
• Sociology degree courses (not completed), University of Lyons, France
• Escolanía de Nuestra Señora de los Reyes, Choir of the Seville Cathedral, director Ángel de Urcelay