Louis-Dominique Dubeau is a software engineer with years of experience in the conversion of paper-based documents to semantically-rich electronic databases based on SGML, XML or proprietary formats. He has also been involved with multiple Open Source projects including Linux and Hurd and with maintaining and enhancing an implementation of the Modula-3 language. Besides his engineering work, he studies ancient languages and cultures in order to understand how culture shapes language and vice-versa.
Louis-Dominique wrote the first professional Document Type Definition (DTD) file for the DDB based on an analysis of the XML data files, which was in turn used as a template for the DTD of the DEALT. This was a vitally important step in the early XML development of this project.
[11/26/2002]