XML Publishing – Practical Tools for Production

A One Day Seminar – Old Town, Hall, Reading
Held on Tuesday 6 September 2011

hintechOvidius Stelae TechnologiesSophia XMetaL SDL Xopus

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X-window – the XML broker – has long been committed to providing its commercial and technical publishing customers with up to the minute information about the ever-evolving publishing production tools. Each year new XML tools emerge. 2010 was no exception, and 2011–12 promises to deliver yet more production functionality founded on XML. X-window brought together a number of XML topics and associated technologies for a one day seminar that showed a number of today’s XML production, storage and management tools that really can make a difference to a publishing environment.

As well as being able to see these tools in use, we also brought together experienced practitioners in the field of XML content creation, management and publishing to pass on their knowledge and practical experience.  To help maximise the effectiveness of a current production environment or any future XML publishing projects, our aim was to ensure that all attendees left with a clear understanding of some of the leading XML technologies.

Target Audience

Executives, content managers, and publishing production staff from commercial publishers, service bureaux, typesetters and technical documentation production companies responsible for day to day publishing production attended this one day seminar.

The Day’s Agenda – Create, Edit, Convert, Manage, Deliver

The speakers, all experts in a variety of fields in the publishing world, covered these subjects:

  • Industry status and key issues facing publishers
  • XML typesetting – the challenge and the benefits
  • Transforming legacy content and re-use
  • Searching content in new ways
  • Managing digital assets
  • When to implement an XML CMS
  • XML Workflow
  • The evolution, development and delivery options to PDF, e-publications and web sites
  • Vendor demonstrations
09.00–09.30 Registration
09.30–09.45 Welcome Introductions
Rick Coope, X-window
09.45–10.10 Keynote Speech – Industry status and key issues facing publishing 
Mike McNamara, Araman Consulting Ltd & Outsell-Gilbane UK Affiliate
10.10–10.30 XML Production Workflow Primer – Setting the scene for XML workflow – XML Creation, XML Management, XML Publishing, e-Publications –
Mitch Bakos, Mike McNamara, Rick Coope
10.30–11.00 User Perspective – XML Typesetting, How one typesetter has used XML to advantage
11.00–11.15 Coffee
Introduction to Create, Edit, Convert, Manage and Deliver – Rick Coope, X-window
11.15–11.45 Word input into XML workflows in commercial publishing 
Inera Xtyles
11.45–12.15 Editing and creating in a DITA environment
X Metal Koala
12.15–12.45 Web Browser based XML Editing in commercial publishing
SDL Xopus
12.45–13.30 Lunch
13.30–14.00 When a CMS is necessary in an XML publishing workflow
Ovidius
14.00–14.30 Alternative Search Technology  
Sophia Search
14.30–15.00 Managing digital assets in a publishing environment
Hint  Tech
15.00–15.15 Tea
15.15–15.45 Transforming content, legacy to XML for re-use and multiple output formats.
Stelae Technologies
15.45–16.15 PDF, e-publications and web site; the evolution and developments affecting these delivery options
GPSL
16.15–16.45 Q&A Summarise and Close. Panel of speakers, including all presenters, hosted by Rick Coope, X-window
16.45–18.00 Informal meeting and demonstrations by vendors/presenters