Ari Nordström Play (26min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG |mp3

Reuse is often the key selling point for XML authoring systems. This presentation examines reuse from various points of view, from the author’s to the developer’s, offering practical strategies for reuse of content. Markup design is discussed, as are necessary prerequisites for making such a system work. What should be reused, and when? How do you uniquely identify a resource, and what, exactly, is a resource anyway? How do you design a user interface that helps the author instead of hindering her? From a practical point of view, how do you design a publishing process that works?

A demonstration of such a system illustrates the points made.

Caroline Wain RSC Publishing, Royal Society of Chemistry Play (23min) Download: FLV | mp3

Many publishers have approached ebook publishing with sceptism and doubt, relating to high initial investment, canabilisation of print markets and problematic DRM and copyright protection. Using the RSC activities as a case study we will be looking at the real opportunities that ebook publishing has presented and how small and medium size publishers can exploit some of these to revive activities in the book publishing area.

Gurvinder Batra KiwiTech Play (54min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGV | MP3

It is a critical time in the digital transition – business models are evolving, new digital devices and applications to access content are exploding, and digital rights management is becoming more complex. Are you ready for the emerging and exciting opportunities?  The speaker will focus on comprehensive overview of the opportunities and challenges facing publishers in a digital world. He will discuss the current state of digital transition; the emerging business models; examine the evolving digital devices & apps used to disseminate content and use show-&-tell to demonstrate what some publishers are doing with their content.

Panel Play (75min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGV | MP3

Bruce D. Rosenblum (Moderator/Speaker) CEO Inera Inc,  Newton MA, Lyndon Holmes, President, Aries Systems Corporation, Lisa Bos, Co-Founder and CTO, Really Strategies Inc. and  Dawn Melley, Director, Editorial Services, IEEE Periodicals

Workflow automation is vital to achieve timely, cost-effective, and high-quality delivery of scholarly articles. In fifteen years, online submission and publication delivery have been highly automated. However editorial and production workflow automation from article acceptance to publication is an ongoing challenge, especially for small -to medium-size publishers without large IT resources. This panel will focus on recent developments in workflow automation. New systems include production management modules for online submission systems, customizable off-the-shelf workflow management systems, and fully custom-developed systems. Presentations will relate to solutions already being taken up but the emphasis will be on the technologies and how they are embedded into overall content management approaches.