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Steve DeRose was Chief Scientist at the Scholarly Technology Group from 1998 to 2001. He
conducted research concerning digital libraries, cataloging and metadata, advanced markup
systems (for non-hierarchical and self-concurrent information structures, for example),
and related topics. He also held an Adjunct Associate Professorship in Brown University's
Department of Computer Science (1998-2001).
Steve has worked extensively on standards for document representation, most recently on
the Open eBook Publication Structure
specification and World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
standards related to the eXtensible Markup Language (XML). He was a charter member of the
consortium's XML Coordination Group and is co-editor of the specifications being developed
by the XML Linking Working Group: XPath, XPointer, and XLink.
After receiving his Ph.D. in computational linguistics from Brown University in 1989,
Steve went on to co-found Electronic Book Technologies. He designed and built DynaText,
DynaWeb, and other products widely used for delivery of electronic documentation.
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