Michael Sperberg-McQueen

[2] Sue Polanka (Head of Reference/Instruction, Wright State University Libraries) notes that the TEI "...in the 1980s and 90s established a fundamental set of methods and practices that now underpin most digital humanities scholarship.

[9] In the XML sphere (and SGML before it) Sperberg-McQueen was a member of the technical staff at the World Wide Web Consortium from 1998 to 2009.

He was a co-editor of the XML 1.0 specification published in 1998, leader of the W3C's Architecture Domain from July 2001 to September 2003, a member of the XML Schema Working Group and co-editor of the XSD 1.1 specification, and a regular participant in many other activities including the Working Groups responsible for XSLT, XPath, and XQuery, and the Service Modeling Language SML.

Outside W3C, he was a key participant in the Extreme Markup Languages conference series and its successor, Balisage, where he was noted for his closing talks summarizing and identifying commonalities between the papers presented over the course of a week.

He regularly contributed his own papers on a wide range of topics, often positioning XML technologies within a wider philosophical and linguistic context.