You still have time to register for next week’s NISO Virtual Conference. The conference will take place on Wednesday, May 17, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM CST. The theme, “Convergence: The Web and Publishing Onto the Web”, will cover what it could mean for your organization, should book production shift from XML to HTML. More information about the Conference’s content is below.
The Web, as a publishing medium, is increasingly important. We live in an age when a publication or an app may not be a self-contained object or artifact, but rather a combination of browser functionality and HTML-formatted content. On the one hand, this enables providers to offer a more interactive and engaging reading experience than is possible with a static page. On the other hand, there are challenges in delivering that experience. Some genres (poetry, mathematics, etc.) have highly specific requirements for placement, expression, and rendering. How will content providers deliver material in those genres to the reader? What are the workflow considerations for production? For libraries—both those with publishing responsibilities as well as those with collection or archiving responsibilities—what new complexities are introduced for long-term preservation? For support of different devices? This six-hour virtual conference will examine next steps in moving beyond what we think of as the “printed page”.
To register for the Conference, click here. The final schedule, including speakers, is below.
Final Agenda with Confirmed Speakers
10:00-10:10 AM: Introduction
10:10-10:45: Keynote Presentation: The Web Imperative: How Web Technologies Are Transforming the Publishing Ecosystem
Bill Kasdorf, Vice President and Principal Consultant, Apex Content & Media
10:45-11:45: Impact on the Content Provider: Platforms & Workflows
Thomas Beyer, Director of Platform Services, O'Reilly Media and Todd Toler, Vice President, Digital Product Management, John Wiley & Sons
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM: Break for Lunch
12:45-1:15: Impact on the User: Design, Form & Function
Michael Jon Jensen, Director of Technology, Westchester Publishing Services
1:15-1:45: Impact on the User: Accessibility
Charles LaPierre, Technical Lead of DIAGRAM and Born Accessible, Benetech
1:45-2:15: Impact on the Library: Collections & Preservation Concerns
Corey Davis, Systems Librarian, University of Victoria
2:15-2:30: Break
2:30-3:00: Scholarly Publishing Case Study
David Kuilman, Director of Content and Data Architecture, Elsevier
3:00-3:30: Trade Publishing Case Study
Confirmed Speaker: Dave Cramer, Senior Digital Publishing Technology Specialist, Hachette Book Group
3:30-4:00: Wrap-Up Discussion
Moderated by Jill O’Neill, Educational Programs Manager, NISO
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