What’s the Point of XML?
Thursday, August 18 th, 2005 12:30-4:30 pm AAP/NY Offices SPEAKER BIOS
(In alphabetical order) Moderator: Bill Kasdorf Vice President, Apex Publishing LLC 214 S. Main Street. Suite 207 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Tel: (734) 904-6252 Fax: (734) 332-4225 Email: bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com BILL KASDORF is General Editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, a major print and online reference work published in 2003 by Columbia University Press, and Vice President of Apex Publishing LLC, the editorial and composition division of Apex CoVantage, a leading supplier of data conversion, editorial, production, and support services to publishers worldwide. Bill was previously president and owner of Impressions before it was acquired by Apex in 2004. The combination of Impressions' and Apex's expertise and technologies resulted in Apex's TrueXML Workflow, a flexible end-to-end XML-based workflow for editing, composing, and producing both print and electronic books and journals in multiple formats from the same XML source. Past President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Bill is a frequent speaker and seminar leader for SSP, as well as for other publishing industry organizations such as Seybold Seminars, the Council of Science Editors, the Library of Congress, and the Association of American University Presses. Panel: Frederick Bowes, III Principal Electronic Publishing Associates PO Box 1637 Duxbury, MA 02331 Tel: (781) 934-7432 Email: rbowes@bowesweb.com FREDERICK BOWES, III, (Rick), has been involved in publishing and graphic communications for over 32 years. He served nine years as publisher of The New England Journal of Medicine, was president of Macmillan New Media, president of Cadmus Digital Solutions, and founded and subsequently sold Publist.com, the Internet Directory of Publications. In 1997, Rick established
Electronic Publishing Associates, a strategic consulting firm helping publishers investigate, plan and implement electronic publishing initiatives. Over the last few years, Rick has developed specialized expertise in the strategic, technical and operational aspects of providing publishers’ content in formats that are accessible for people with print disabilities (e.g., blindness, learning disabilities). He currently works with K-12 and Higher Ed publishers facing tough legal requirements that their content be made available to students in accessible formats and in a timely manner. A long-time member of the PSP’s Electronic Information Committee and a former president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Rick authored the chapter titled “Accessibility” in The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, has been a speaker and panelist in many industry conferences, and served on a number of publishing-related advisory boards. Rick is a graduate of Dartmouth College with an MBA from Columbia University. Amy Brand Director of Business Development CrossRef 40 Salem Street Lynnfield, MA 01940 Tel: (781) 295-0072 Fax: (781) 295-0077 Email: abrand@crossref.org AMY BRAND is Director of Business Development at CrossRef, where she has been instrumental in the rapid growth in publisher, library, and vendor adoption of CrossRef’s linking technology since joining the company in April of 2001. Her career spans electronic publishing, book acquisitions, and academia. She has previously held positions at Ingenta, LEA Inc., the University of Pennsylvania, and The MIT Press, where she was an executive editor from 19942000. She received a doctorate in cognitive science from MIT in 1989. John Muenning Development Manager for Electronic Publishing & Production University of Chicago Press 1427 E. 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Tel: (773) 753-3376 Email: jmuenning@press.uchicago.edu JOHN MUENNING is development manager for electronic publishing and production at the University of Chicago Press. He began his career in 1987 as manuscript editor in the Journals Division. As leader of the science team, he developed electronic editing procedures and WordPerfect macros that were used in some dark corners of the Press for more than a decade. In 1994 he joined the fledgling IT department and began working on tools to support SGML-based editorial and production processes. His group has developed software for peer review, conversion of author files, copyediting, typesetting, and electronic publishing. John has also taught several courses in the Publishing Program of the University of Chicago’s Graham School of General Studies and was a co-author of the math and the documentation chapters in the Chicago Manual of Style. Howard Ratner CTO, Executive VP Nature Publishing Group 345 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010 Tel: (212) 726-9244 Fax: (212) 689-9107 Email: h.ratner@natureny.com HOWARD RATNER is Chief Technology Officer, Executive Vice-President, for the Nature Publishing Group. Based in New York, Howard is in charge of US operations and has global responsibilities for Print Production and Manufacturing, Web Development, Web Services, Web Production, New Technology and Information Technology across all NPG products. Howard's prior positions include Director, Electronic Publishing & Production for Springer-Verlag New York, as well as the North American Manager for LINK, and a member of the production staff at John Wiley & Sons. He was also active in the establishment of the DOI and the founding of CrossRef. He currently serves as an active member of the CrossRef board and a publishing advisor to CCC and LOCKSS. He is a frequent spokesperson for NPG on a variety of production and new technology themes.