Standards Pt. 2: Updates and forecast for standards

3:25 to 4:10 p.m.
Gold I

This session will offer a a look at the latest developments in standards including EPUB3, DAISY, nextPub, ONIX, etc.

The Speakers

Bill McCoy is executive director of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the trade and standards group responsible for the EPUB standard interchange and delivery format for eBooks and other digital publications. Mr. McCoy was previously general manager, digital publishing at Adobe Systems. McCoy has been involved in publishing technology for over 20 years, and has contributed to the establishment of numerous industry-standard platforms including EPUB as well as PDF, OpenType, and PostScript.

Bill Kasdorf is general editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing and vice president of Apex Content Solutions, a leading supplier of consulting, data conversion, editorial, production, and content enhancement services to publishers and other organisations worldwide. Past president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), Bill has led seminars and spoken widely for publishing industry organisations such as SSP, O’Reilly TOC, NISO, BISG, IDPF, AAP, AAUP, ALPSP, STM, Seybold Seminars, and the Library of Congress. He currently serves on the IDPF Working Group updating the EPUB standard (and is coordinator of its Metadata Subgroup); the IDEAlliance working group developing the nextPub source format for magazines and other design- and feature-rich publications (chairing its nextPub-to-EPUB Mapping Committee); the NISO eBook SIG; and is Chair of the BISG Content Structure Committee.

Yoshihisa Narui, TC100 ebook

Francis Cave