Dear All,

 Nowadays in the world of Web developers, usage and knowledge of the XML-family is essential. To help Hungarian Web developers, informatics students and other interested people, translation of XML 1.1 to Hungarian has been undertaken at the Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen.

 Now, cooperated with the Hungarian W3C Office and other Hungarian stakeholder institutes, we would like to make authorized translation of XML 1.1 Second Edition. The entire translation procedure will fully comply with the Policy for Authorized W3C Translations.

 First, we would like to notify You of our intention for translation of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (Second Edition) Recommendation (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11) to Hungarian with the following stakeholders.
 

Lead Translation Organization (LTO)
Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen
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Historical roots of the University of Debrecen reach back to the foundation of the Reformed College of Debrecen (1538), whose three academic sections later served as the base for the Hungarian Royal University of Sciences, created by Statute no. 36 in 1912. With this past of more than 450 years, the University of Debrecen is the oldest institution of higher education in continuous operation in Hungary based in the same city.

 The quality of teaching and especially research is indicated by the fact that more than half of the instructors have academic degrees, and 26 professors are members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. According to the yearly complex report of the Hungarian Ministry of Education, which serves as the base for the amount of research funding available to institutions of higher education, it is the best institution outside Budapest and is in the top three in the country, possessing 14-15% of the research volume carried out in Hungary.

The Faculty of Informatics is very new, having been formed in 2004 as the result of a long process of organic growth. The teaching of information technology began in 1972 at the Kossuth Lajos University of Sciences, one of the predecessors to the University of Debrecen, as the Computer Science Department, established as a sub-division of the Faculty of Mathematics. According to the evoluation of computer sciences, the numbers of IT students, instructors and departments at our University have multiplied, and the range of courses we offer has also expanded. At the end of the 1980s, we began providing university-level education in Programming Mathematics, IT Teaching and Library IT. We have also played an active role in the founding and running of the Mathematics and Computer Sciences Doctoral School.

Our faculty has been offering courses in XML almost since the birth of the technology, the end of the nineties. (Now there is also a Semantic Web course.) We would like to help with the translation of the XML 1.1 specification offering our expertise that we have gained during the years teaching XML related technologies in the classroom.

 Contact person:
Dr. Gábor Fazekas
Department of Information Technology
Faculty of Informatics
University of Debrecen
H-4010 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1.
Hungary
fazekasg @inf.unideb.hu



Other major Hungarian stakeholders
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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Institutum Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum, the legal predecessor of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) was founded in 1782, and it was the first institute in Europe to train engineers at university level. BME, as a prestigious Hungarian higher education institute is committed to differentiated, multilevel, high-standard education, founded on intensive basic training, research, development and innovation, and scientific qualification in technical and natural sciences and in certain fields of economic and social sciences. BME is W3C Member since January 2007, because it's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics conducts high qualified web-related research in the area of Semantic Web, Mobile Web, Speech Reserach, Security, …

Each of these are connected to XML, so BME is concerned to help translating XML Recommendations to Hungarian.

Contact persons:
Géza Kiss
Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
H-1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körút 2.
Hungary
kgeza@tmit.bme.hu

Tamás Mészáros
Department of Measurement and Information Systems
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
H-1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körút 2.
Hungary
meszaros@mit.bme.hu


Eötvös Loránd University
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The predecessor of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) was founded in 1635 in Nagyszombat (today Trnava, Slovakia) by Cardinal Péter Pázmány, as a catholic university for teaching Theology and Philosophy. In 1770-1780, the University was transferred to Buda and later to Pest, and with the support of Maria-Theresa, the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, became the Royal Hungarian University.

Over the following decades, new faculties were established to meet the expectations of a learned society. In the second half of the 19th century, the University developed into a centre of modern higher education in today's sense, covering nearly every scholarly field.

In 1950, the University was reorganized and adopted its present name. It was named after one of its professors, the world-famous physicist, Loránd Eötvös. Currently, the university has eight faculties: Arts, Education and  Psychology, Elementary and Nursery School Teacher Training, Informatics, Law and Political Sciences, Science, Social Sciences, and the Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Education. More of these have XML-related projects and courses.

The main subject of the Faculty of Informatics is database system, so it is tightly connected to XML. It would be very useful for our students if they can use authorized translations of W3C Recommendations, as XML 1.1, so we are glad to take part in this work.

Contact person:
Dr. András Benczúr
Department of Information Systems
Faculty of Informatics
Eötvös Loránd University
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 120.
Hungary
abenczur@ullman.inf.elte.hu


Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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The Institute was founded in 1964. The mission of MTA SZTAKI includes the transfer of up-to-date research results and state-of-the-art technology to university students. The Institute is very active in graduate and postgraduate education, co-operating with most technical universities in Hungary and operating common chairs, postgraduate programs with them.

The Institute has wide external relationships in its R&Dprofile. ERCIM (European Research Consortium of Informatics and Mathematics) granted full membership to the Institute in 1994. The Institute is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (since 1995) and of other international organizations.

Our Institute won the title of "Centre of Excellence" of the EU, and the number of EU projects is also impressing. The primary aim of Department of Distributed Systems is the research and development of distributed computer applications including World Wide Web-based software systems, groupware systems and services, digital library systems, digital art projects, audio/video conferencing environments. As our technologies related to Extensible Markup Language, the Department has high competence in this area.

 Contact person:
Dr. András Micsik
Department of Distributed Systems
Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1111 Budapest, Lágymányosi u. 11.
Hungary
micsik@sztaki.hu


W3C Hungarian Office
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W3C Hungarian Office is hosted in the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It was founded in 2002 and has organized a lot of workshops and more translations (OWL and RDF family, and some others). The Office has had a mailing list for translations for ages with about half hundred members where we discuss the problematic translational questions.

 Contact person:
Éva Megyaszai
W3C Hungarian Office
Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 63.
Hungary
office@w3c.hu


Waiting for your response,

Best regards,

Prof. Dr. Attila Pethő
Dean
Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen
H-4010 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1.
Hungary
pethoe@inf.unideb.hu