Makoto Murata
Professor Emeritus at SC34
Yokohama, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolMakoto Murata is a Professor Emeritus and standards veteran with over 15 years of experience driving XML, EPUB and document-format standardization and practical implementations. A member of the original XML Working Group and co-editor of schema languages such as RELAX NG and NVDL, he combines deep technical authorship with long‑running standards leadership as convenor of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG4 for OOXML. He led the Enhanced Global Language Support subgroup for EPUB, shaping EPUB 3 internationalization and contributing front-end improvements for Japanese vertical text rendering in the IDPF/epub3-samples repository. Based in Yokohama, he bridges academic rigor (Ph.D. from Tsukuba) with hands-on engineering and education as a visiting professor. Less obvious: he pairs protocol‑level standard work with practical UX-focused styling tweaks, showing attention to both specification detail and real-world reading experience.
15 years of coding experience
Batchelor, Computer Science, Batchelor, Computer Science at Kyoto UniversityPh.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at University of Tsukuba
English, Japanese
Github Skills (3)
css10
epub10
html9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
IDPF/epub3-samples
May 2012 - Sep 2017
EPUB 3 Sample Documents
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 7 PRs, 1 push in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Makoto contributed to the visual presentation and structure of EPUB 3 sample documents. They modified CSS files to implement vertical writing mode and other styling for Japanese text layout. Additionally, the user made changes to navigation and style files, demonstrating a focus on the rendering and user experience of the EPUB content.
pdfepub
murata2makoto/w3id.org
Sep 2016 - Jun 2023
Website source code for w3id.org
Contributions:5 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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