The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
launches its Hungarian Office based at the Department of Distributed Systems of
the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (MTA SZTAKI, DSD) in Budapest, Hungary, on 24
September 2002.
The W3C was created to lead the Web to its full
potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure
its interoperability. It is an international industry consortium jointly run by
the MIT LCS in the USA, the ERCIM in France and Keio University in Japan.
The Hungarian Office is the first office in Central
Europe, joining an active roster, which includes a number of European Offices
of W3C as well as the W3C European host site at ERCIM in France.
The goals of W3C Offices are to promote efforts in
local languages, help broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage
international participation in W3C Activities. So the main tasks of the
Hungarian Office are to make the W3C technologies known and popular in Hungary
through various events, workshops, presentations; translate W3C News and W3C
documents; help the Hungarian organisations to join to the W3C Activities.
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This presentation will be a summary of the activities
of W3C Hungarian Office and will be about the necessary organisational and
R&D activities for creating the Hungarian e-content and steps for
developing the infrastructure of the Academic community.