Gurvinder Batra Chief Technology Officer, KiwiTech, Washington DC 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.

Kevin Cohn*, Aviva Weinstein** * Director of Client Services, Atypon, ** Oxford University Press Play (25min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGV | MP3

The speakers will give complementary presentation. Mr. Cohn discuss how recent developments in applications place an even greater emphasis on XML-first workflows, which the largest publishers already have and the smaller ones are moving towards.Content can and should be presented differently in print, traditional digital (desktop and laptop), and mobile formats. A given researcher can and will consume the same piece of content in more than one of the above formats, each in a different way. Ms Weinstein will draw upon the OUP experience. They have found that by developing their resources in XML they are able to benefit customers by enhancing the search experience away from single titles to multiple resources. Once in a resource it is quite easy to access others relating to the same search topic (in some instances unsubscribed content is made available for free). The ability to discover greater chunks of materials is exciting – all too often researchers are pushed into silos of 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.

Samir Kakar* and Chris Curtis** * CTO, Aptara Inc ** formerly of Wolters Kluwer London Play (40min) Download: FLV | MP3

Maximizing return from a comprehensive technology like XML requires multiple strategies and tools. The further upstream that XML can be created, the greater the leverage and the lower the cost. We look at platforms and tools that allow subject matter experts to create in XML and how to manage the hand-off to all subsequent steps in an XML environment. Additionally, the global nature of modern production requires tools that track schedule and process from inception to delivery in final formats. This can be accomplished by a suite of control applications, or by choosing a publishing platform.

Richard Padley* and Andrea Powell** * Semantico Ltd ** CABI Play (45min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGV | MP3

The presentation will be a case study of lessons drawn from the CAB Direct project, and will highlight issues which are relevant across the board for publishers delivering online content. This will include looking at how to maximise value in the design of taxonomies and coding systems, how designing and improving user experience on the product side can lead to more stringent data quality requirements and some design strategies to minimise ongoing operational costs when designing data transfer workflows between systems. We will also look at how innovation in the design of machine level API interfaces.

Suzanne Wilson-Higgins Ingram Content Group Play (40min) Download: FLV | MP3

Suzanne’s presentation will provide current case studies of how traditional STM, Academic, Trade, Religious, Educational publishers and non-traditional publishers are using stockless on-demand book manufacturing to change the way they publish books, print journal issues and produce grey literature. The session will cover the underlying JIT process workflow, overlaps with digital product creation and best practice for integration to shorten the supply chain. It is intended that her presentation should be complemented by a representative from a major STM publisher.

Bill Kasdorf Apex Content Solutions Play (48min) Download: FLV | MP3

Bill’s concern is both with the proliferation of user applications, interfaces, devices, ways of interacting with content (more than just reading); and the proliferation of _types_ of content, going beyond text to include audio, video, ‘intelligent’ images, etc., collectively referred to as ‘rich media.’ We’ve seen this coming for some time, but now, dealing with rich media in some systematic way, is rapidly becoming a reality for publishers. The general consensus is that this is an area where standards are just beginning to emerge and are still quite media-specific: activities around images, audio, and video are still quite separate.