OUR PARTNERS
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The shift towards open access models, the pressing demand for diversity and inclusivity as well as the significant increase in submissions and publications are challenging the established frameworks and procedures of traditional publishing. Like almost all industries, artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the field of scholarly communication. Even if the outcome of this development is unclear: By adopting a modern technology infrastructure, scholarly publishers can better meet the needs of the research community, foster open and efficient communication of scientific knowledge, and ensure the sustainability and growth of their operations in the digital era. Our digital conference is intended to provide impetus and inspiration to prepare for this process. Get ready for the future of scholarly publishing!
AGENDA
Date: May 15
11 AM EST
11.10 AM EST
11.40 AM EST
12.10 PM EST
12.20 PM EST
12.50 PM EST
1.20 PM EST
1.50 PM EST
Welcome
Matthias Kraus, Florian Kirschner (Fabasoft Xpublisher Inc.)
Bill Kasdorf (Publishing Technology Partners)
Daniel Lenz, DIGITAL PUBLISHING REPORT
Keynote: Welcome to Our Rich, Multimodal, Interconnected, Multiplayer, Dynamic Scholarly Publishing World!
Bill Kasdorf (Publishing Technology Partners)
Many find today's scholarly landscape unsettled and challenging. Speaking from over four decades of experience, I think it's the most dynamic and exciting that it's ever been. That's largely thanks to the dramatic advances in the technologies we use to conduct, collaborate on, and convey the fruits of scholarly and scientific research. The image of the lone scholar in a garret laboring in isolation for years is history. Research and scholarship are fundamentally conversations--first and foremost among colleagues and peers, but increasingly interdisciplinary and cross-sector, supported by cross-publisher organizations, based on broadly implemented standards, and driven by mandates from governments, funders, and institutions. Challenging? Of course. But at the end of the day, for the better. This talk will focus on some of the technological developments that are making the scholarly and scientific ecosystem better than ever.
Panel Discussion: Technology Trends in Scholarly Publishing - A Publisher's Perspective
With Michael Di Natale (American Association for Cancer Research), Cheryl Firestone (American Academy of Pediatrics), Mandy L. May (Association for Material Protection and Performance)
Moderation: Brian Trombley (Ariza Content Solutions)
Keying off of Mr. Kasdorf’s keynote, this panel of publishers will discuss their recent application of advances in technology within their scholarly publishing programs, the impact that those advances have had, what they might of done differently, and what new and emerging technologies are on their radar to help further their mission. Please welcome to the stage Michael Di Natale of the American Association for Cancer Research, Cheryl Firestone of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Mandy May of the Association for Materials Protection and Performance.
Setting the Course for the Future of Scholarly Communication – Outlook on the SSP 46th Annual Meeting​
Melanie Dolechek (Society for Scholarly Publishing)
Digital Transformation Driven by JATS, BITS, and NISO STS – An AMPP Case Study
Mandy L. May (AMPP)
The Association of Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) is a recent (2021) merger of NACE International and SSPC (The Society of Protective Coatings). What initially began as a centralization of content for NACE International in 2020 became a unification of over 75 years of legacy content from both organizations in standards, conference papers, journal articles, books, and magazines – as well as a path forward for new content. This use case will cover five major elements - structuring content, implementing a taxonomy effort, launching an internal content repository, creating centralized new content workflows, and implementing a customer facing platform for discoverability and delivery. The small staff team knew that it was essential to lean on the best of industry partners.
Panel Discussion: Technology Trends in Scholarly Publishing - A Delivery Platform Vendor‘s Perspective
With Patrick Hargitt (Atypon), Hannah Heckner Swain (Silverchair), Joshua Routh (HighwirePress)
Moderation: Brian Trombley (Ariza Content Solutions)
Making scholarly content easily accessible, findable, actionable, and impactful can be a challenge. With multiple points of consumption available to publishers, this session focuses on three of the primary content delivery platforms leveraged by scholarly publishers. We welcome Atypon, Highwire, and Silverchair to the stage to discuss what they are currently working into their respective Content Delivery Platforms from a technology perspective, and what they see as opportunity for further technological advances within their platforms given the rapid pace of emerging technologies and the opportunity for innovation to drive continuous improvement in customer experience.
Publishing Embedding Semantics in an Age of AI
Todd Carpenter (NISO)
Publishing is the craft of taking an authors work, improving it through the editorial process, preparing it for publication and distributing it. Digital publishing production processes enhance the author’s text through markup and embedded semantic information. But in an age of AI reading do the machines need this extra step? This talk will explore the role of semantic enrichment of text in a machine intermediated world and how it may need to change.
Wrap-up
Florian Kirschner (Fabasoft Xpublisher Inc.)
Bill Kasdorf (Publishing Technology Partners)
OUR SPEAKERS
MODERATOR AND KEYNOTE SPEAKER
BILL KASDORF
FOUNDING PARTNER PUBLISHING TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
Bill Kasdorf is Principal of Kasdorf & Associates, LLC, a consultancy focusing on editorial and production workflows and technologies, XML/HTML/EPUB content modeling, standards and best practices, and accessibility. He is a founding partner of Publishing Technology Partners. Active in the W3C Publishing@W3C activity, Bill is the W3C Global Publishing Evangelist. He’s an active member of SSP, NISO, BISG, IPTC, and the DAISY Consortium. Past President of SSP and a recipient of SSP’s Distinguished Service Award and BISG’s Industry Champion Award, he’s general editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, serves on Learned Publishing’s editorial board, and is a columnist for Publishers Weekly. Clients have included scholarly organizations such as NEJM, NAP, IEEE, APA, and ACP; university presses such as MIT, Harvard, Cambridge, Toronto, and Columbia; publishers such as PLOS, SAGE, Norton, Cochrane, and Pearson; and international organizations such as the British Library, the World Bank, OCLC, ORCID, and the EU Publishing Office.
OTHER SPEAKERS
TODD CARPENTER
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INFORMATION STANDARDS ORGANIZATION (NISO)
Todd Carpenter currently serves as Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a non-profit association that develops and maintains standards for the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information. In this role, he works with organizations across the publishing, library and software provider communities, building coalitions to improve efficiency in systems to deliver content to users. Prior to joining NISO, Todd was Director of Business Development at BioOne. He also held management positions at The Johns Hopkins University Press, the Energy Intelligence Group, and the Haworth Press. He has served on the Boards of several industry and community organizations, including FORCE11, the Baltimore County Public Library, the Book Industry Study Group and the Society for Scholarly Publishing. He contributes regularly as a Chef on the Scholarly Kitchen and is author of dozens of papers on library and publishing systems. He is presently writing a book on our everyday interactions with metadata. Todd is a graduate of Syracuse University and holds a masters degree in business from the Johns Hopkins University.
MICHAEL DI NATALE
DIRECTOR, DIGITAL PUBLISHING, AACR (AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH)
Mike Di Natale is the Director, Digital Publishing at AACR. Previously, Mike served as Publishing Technology Manager at Science/AAAS where he led the Science journals platform migration. He has spent his scholarly communications career working at the intersection of publishing and technology, having been a part of a product management team building tools for better editorial and production workflows and later migrating operations at BioOne to a new digital library platform and invoicing system. An active member publishing community, Mike is an at-large member of the SSP Board of Directors.
MELANIE DOLECHEK
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SOCIETY FOR SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING
Melanie Dolechek is the Executive Director of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. She has been active in scholarly publishing since 2006, previously serving as the Director of Publishing and Marketing of Allen Press. She is a past Convener for the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communication and past treasurer of the Kansas City Society of Association Executives. Melanie holds a Master of Science in Management from Baker University a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kansas State University and is a Certified Association Executive. In 2023 she was awarded the KCSAE Distinguished Association Executive Award.
CHERYL FIRESTONE
SENIOR MANAGER, DIGITAL PUBLISHING, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS
Cheryl specializes in strategic planning and execution for digital publishing endeavors at the Academy. With a focus on online publications, websites, e-books, and emerging formats, she enjoys testing the waters—and the boundaries—of innovation in the field. Her passion for scholarly publishing ensures that projects under her guidance not only meet but exceed industry standards, delivering content that captivates audiences, and enhances user experiences. Her commitment to continuous learning enables her to craft forward-thinking strategies adaptable to the dynamic digital landscape. Cheryl eagerly anticipates the next wave of innovation in scholarly publishing and is enthusiastic about discovering where emerging technologies will lead us next.
PATRICK HARGITT
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, ATYPON
Patrick brings a wealth of knowledge to Atypon and has worked in the software industry for over 28 years where he previously focused on building scalable platforms and managing engineering teams. He first joined Atypon in 2015 with a mission to modernize the core of Atypon's flagship Literatum platform as well as optimize product evolution using lean processes and automation. He is now responsible for the overall Literatum Product delivery and roadmap overseeing the launch of many improvements needed in the currently shifting scholarly publishing world. After beginning his product development career at American Management Systems, Patrick eventually moved to Greece where he served as the CTO of Upstream - a startup connecting mobile users with telecom operators, media, and marketeers. He has also led engineering and product development on projects such as Blackberry’s messenger ad platform and VAS solutions deployed by telecom operators around the world. Patrick has a Bachelor of Arts in computer science and physics from Hamilton College, New York.
HANNAH HECKNER SWAIN
VICE PRESIDENT STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS, SILVERCHAIR
As Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Hannah Heckner Swain is responsible for working with Silverchair’s clients, prospects, and the industry at large to shape Silverchair’s product vision and roadmap; overseeing the development of Sensus Impact; and managing the Silverchair Universe trusted partner program in addition to other key external partnerships. She has worked within academic publishing for nearly 15 years and has experience with both commercial and non-profit publishing and is a proud Member-at-Large of the Society for Scholarly Publishing Board of Directors and participates on the GetFTR Advisory Board.
FLORIAN KIRSCHNER
MANAGING DIRECTOR, FABASOFT XPUBLISHER INC.
Florian Kirschner has been Managing Director of Fabasoft Xpublisher Inc. since 2023 and is responsible for the development and expansion of the entire US business. He has several years of experience and extensive expertise in the areas of consulting, business development and project management as well as in-depth knowledge of various XML standards, in particular JATS. Florian is dedicated to supporting companies from a wide range of industries in the digitization and transformation of their publishing processes, helping them to achieve great efficiency gains, increased performance and sustainable growth.
MATTHIAS KRAUS
MANAGING DIRECTOR | CEO, FABASOFT XPUBLISHER GMBH
Matthias Kraus is the founder and managing director of Fabasoft Xpublisher GmbH. Since 2001, he has been advising numerous leading international companies and organizations from the publishing and association sectors, public administration, education, technology, aerospace and many other industries in the field of multichannel publishing and accompanying them on their way to digitalization. Matthias is a pioneer and thought leader in the field of XML and has more than 20 years of professional experience with structured content. Under his guidance, the XML-based editorial system Xpublisher and the intuitive and web-based WYSIWYM XML editor Xeditor were developed, paving the way for efficient and successful multichannel publishing for many organizations.
MANDY L. MAY
DIRECTOR, CONTENT MANAGEMENT, AMPP (ASSOCIATION FOR MATERIALS PROTECTION AND PERFORMANCE)
Having worked in the association world for more than 30 years has provided Mandy with opportunities to see many aspects of this work – from standards to publications to IT to marketing. Having the privilege to work on SAE’s content management effort instilled her passion for this work by seeing what it brings to an organization. Having the chance to bring this methodology to AMPP at a time when NACE and SSPC merged has been her once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity.
JOSHUA ROUTH
DIRECTOR OF HOSTING PRODUCTS, HIGHWIRE
Joshua has spent the last 15 years helping make industry-leading academic and research content accessible and engaging. He is the product owner for HighWire Hosting, working closely with publishers and users to improve the discoverability and impact of millions of content items. He manages a global team of STM specialists and has delivered dozens of flagship projects both for major publishers and independent societies. He has extensive experience in user-centred design, a Masters in technology and cultural theory, and participates in several community working groups. Joshua is dedicated to finding ways of using technology to enhance the research ecosystem, and the research outcomes which improve lives.
BRIAN TROMBLEY
CEO, ARIZA CONTENT SOLUTIONS
Brian Trombley has more than 40 years’ experience helping clients implement content-oriented processes and technologies for all aspects of publishing across a wide range of industry verticals. An early practitioner of structured content methodologies, Mr. Trombley was at the forefront of the SGML and XML revolutions and has helped clients successfully manage change and leverage content for maximum business value.
Bill Kasdorf
Principal, Kasdorf & Associates, LLC; Founding Partner, Publishing Technology Partners
ABOUT THE HOST
The DIGITAL PUBLISHING REPORT (dpr) is a specialist information medium on the digital transformation of the media industry. www.digital-publishing-report.de
Our readers are media and marketing professionals from publishing houses and other media companies, but also from agencies and other companies. We publish a monthly magazine. And we offer webinars and digital conferences in our "dpr academy".
ABOUT THE SPONSOR
Xpublisher is a leader in the field of multichannel publishing, offering products that enable workflow-centric content creation, content management in a content pool, and automated publishing to virtually any media platform. Xpublisher was founded in 2009 and is based in Munich, Germany. The company operates a US subsidiary and has been part of the Fabasoft Group since 2019. Numerous leading international companies and organizations in the publishing, aerospace, technology, education, and public administration sectors together with a host of other industries have already placed their trust in Xpublisher.
About Fabasoft
Fabasoft, founded on 8 August 1988 with headquarters in Linz, is one of the leading software product companies and cloud service providers for digital document, process and file management in Europe. With its unique ecosystem Fabasoft PROCECO, the company provides selected, powerful and seamlessly integrated solutions for document-intensive business processes.
