William W. Tunnicliffe
Deceased Person
1922 – 1996
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Who was William W. Tunnicliffe?
William W. Tunnicliffe is credited by Charles Goldfarb as being the first person to articulate the idea of separating the definition of formatting from the structure of content in electronic documents.
In September 1967, during a meeting at the Canadian Government Printing Office, Tunnicliffe gave a presentation on the separation of information content of documents from their format. In the 1970s, Tunnicliffe led the development of a standard called GenCode for the publishing industry and later was the first chair of the International Organization for Standardization.
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