Standards in Flux: What’s Happening and What’s on the Horizon in the Publishing Standards Landscape

11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Königstein I&II

We’re in the midst of a major standards transition. Many key standards — EPUB for eBooks, PRISM/nextPub for publications, ONIX for metadata, DAISY for accessibility, MathML — have had, or are about to have, significant updates. Archival models are evolving too: e.g., the DocBook Publishers Schema, TEI Tite, NLM becoming JATS. This workshop will help you make the most of the changing standards landscape.

The Speakers

Bill Kasdorf (VP-Apex, moderator) will begin with an overview of recent or upcoming changes to a number of standards important to publishers. These range from fundamental archival models like DocBook, TEI, and NLM (soon to be rechristened as JATS); delivery/distribution models like EPUB and DAISY; metadata standards like ONIX and PRISM; and others, like the metadata associated with images, video, and audio.

George Kerscher (Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium; President, International Digital Publishing Forum, the organisation that maintains the EPUB standard) will focus on the upcoming changes to the DAISY standards for accessibility (and their implications for the upcoming EPUB standard revision), as well as other accessibility standards publishers should be familiar with.

Graham Bell (Chief Data Architect, EDItEUR, the organisation that maintains the ONIX standard) will focus on the recent update to the foremost standard for supply chain metadata, ONIX 3.0, and other important related standards developments, particularly in the area of identifiers like ISBN (for tradeable objects), ISTC (for works), ISNI (for names), and others.