Irène Vatton

Situation

• Research Engineer at INRIA
• W3C member from February 1996 to December 2002, now WAM project member and W3C collaborator.
• Amaya development activity leader at W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

Ph.D. degree in computer science from university of Grenoble in 1978.
Research Engineer at CNRS from 1979 to 1996 in the field of systems, local network protocols, then electronic documents and document processing.
Research Engineer at INRIA since 1996.

Research and Development Activities

Main results are:

• The structured document editor called Grif then Thot

  It's a structured document WYSIWYG editor developed with Vincent Quint as a support of the Opera team research. The editing relies on constraints imposed by a structure model (a sort of DTD) to generate conforming documents.

• The Thot toolkit which allows one to develop new document centered applications.

  It's a C API that allows external applications to manage or alter Thot document trees. This API was also developped in the Opera research project context.

• The Amaya editor/browser developed at W3C

  In February 1996, I joined the W3C team to develop a demonstrator of W3C technologies. The Amaya editor is an authoring tool which includes browsing features to help authors to refer to or copy other pages while editing. Amaya implements a large set of W3C recommendations (HTML/XHTML, MathML, SVG, CSS, XML, RDF, XLink, HTTP). The tool allows one to edit and publish directly on Web servers.
  It's an Open Source project and includes support for Unix, Windows, and MacOS X platforms.

Related publications

V. Quint, I. Vatton, "Editing MathML on the Web with Amaya", MathML and Math on the Web Conference, Urbana-Champaign, Ill. , USA, 20-21 October 2000.
V. Quint, I. Vatton, J. Paoli, ``Active Structured Documents as User Interfaces'', User Interfaces for Symbolic Computations - Springer Verlag, 1996.
V. Quint, C. Roisin, I. Vatton, ``A Structured Authoring Environment for the World-Wide Web'', Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, vol. 27, num. 6, pp. 831-840, April 1995.
V. Quint, I. Vatton, ``L'édition structurée et le World-Wide Web'', Cahiers GUTenberg, num. 19, pp. 85-97, janvier 1995. V. Quint, I. Vatton, ``Making Structured Documents Active'', Electronic Publishing -- Origination, Dissemination and Design, vol. 7, num. 2, pp. 55-74, June 1994
C. Roisin, I. Vatton, ``Merging Logical and Physical Structures in Documents'', Electronic Publishing -- Origination, Dissemination and Design, special issue Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation and Typography, EP94, vol. 6, num. 4, pp. 327-337, April 1994.