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Tantek Çelik

Tantek Çelik is a Turkish-American computer scientist and software engineer known for his work in web standards and development. He co-founded the Microformats community, which promotes simple, machine-readable ways to add semantic meaning to web content to improve data sharing and accessibility. Tantek has contributed to various web technologies and standards, including support for CSS and HTML, and has been involved with professional organizations like the W3C. His work helps make the internet more structured, interoperable, and accessible, benefiting developers and users by enabling smarter, more connected web experiences.