Keynote Speakers

Sustainable XML for Publishing Applications: DITA Makes It Possible

Eliot Kimber
Senior Solutions Architect
Really Strategies, Inc.

XML applications for publishers have largely failed to realize the full potential inherent in the technology. While larger publishers could make the investment necessary to realize significant return on the use of XML technology, smaller enterprises simply could not, for a number of reasons, but fundamentally because the startup costs and ongoing costs of ownership were simply too high. The DITA standard fundamentally changes the equation, bringing several unique features that, together, serve to lower both the startup cost and ongoing costs, making the use of XML for publishers much more affordable than it ever has before. At the same time, advances in supporting technologies important to Publishers, such as improved support for XML in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office, powerful new XML search and retrieval systems such as MarkLogic, and a new generation of lower-cost XML editors, as serve to make the use of XML for Publishing applications more attractive than it ever has been before.

As Senior Content Engineer at Really Strategies, Eliot leads publishers through various content management initiatives, including RSuite CMS implementations, XML and desktop publishing applications, DITA requirements and  standardization, and information and process analyses. Eliot is fluent in a wide range of standards relating to information management and publishing.

The Next Generation of Document Processing Architectures

Rick Jelliffe
Chief Technology Officer
Developer of XML productivity tools, Topologi

Rick is a widely respected standards activist heavily involved with the development of the W3C XML Schema and is author of ISO Schematron. For much of 2007, he has been involved in writing and presenting on the topic of standards for office documents.