Ron Daniel is an expert on XML industry standards, an active member of the XML and metadata standardization communities, and a noted digital library researcher. He chaired the PRISM (Publishers Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) working group (prismstandard.org), and is acting chair of the XML Linking working group. He has been a member of the RDF working groups, and has co-edited numerous specifications including PRISM, XPointer, three IETF RFCs, and the first two Dublin Core (dublincore.org) reports.