Ben Trafford, Member of XML Plenary, to speak at ALA 6/28 (not listed in program)

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LITA Electronic Journals Electronic Publishing Interest Group
Monday, June 28th 8:30-11 a.m. New Orleans, 
Sheraton Hotel on Canal St. 
The Aurora Rm.

"Formats for Electronic Publishing: Decisions and Trends"

Electronic journals appear in many different formats - pdf and 
other types of page images as well as HTML and SGML.  Publishers 
and aggregators will talk about their decisions to use a particular 
format and we'll consider the coming impact of XML and other new 
Web standards. 

Speakers (Not listed in the Program):

Ben Trafford <bent at exemplary.net> 
General Manager
Exemplary Technologies, Inc.
URL: http://www.exemplary.net/

As a member of the XML Plenary (the advisory group to the body that 
makes all the future decisions about XML), Ben Trafford is an Invited 
Expert at the W3C and co-editor of the W3C's XML Linking Language. He 
co-authors the Open eBook specification, and is a member of the Open 
eBook Organizational Group and the EBX Working Group. He founded 
Exemplary Technologies, a provider of e-book tools and functions as 
the General Manager.  At this session Ben Trafford will describe 
briefly what XML is and how it differs from other electronic formats 
and why it is of such interest to the information industry. He will 
comment on what the commercial or W3C community is planning to do, 
what objectives, benefits and what its strategy is for integrating 
newer formats - particularly given the reality of existing market 
penetration of html and other formats. 


Each speaker below will present what strategies and decisions they 
are making to make use of XML capabilities. 

Chris Beckett <chris.beckett at catchword.co.uk>
Director of Sales and Marketing
CatchWord Ltd 
URL: http://www.catchword.co.uk/

Bette Brunelle <betteb at ovid.com>
Director, Database Technology
Ovid Technologies Inc.
URL: http://www.ovid.com/

Cindy Edgington Miller <cindy at endinfosys.com>
Director of Product Strategy
Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.
URL: http://www.endinfosys.com/
Des Plaines, IL 60018

Christine Ruotolo and Stephen Ramsey <etext at virginia.edu>
Associate and Assistant Directors
Electronic Text Center
URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903-2498