**Apologies for cross-posting**


A much requested repeat of the very successful Technology Update held in
October 2006.


ALPSP Half Day Technology Update: 


A Standard XML Document Format: 

The case for the adoption of NLM DTD?

Monday 3 December 2007 

Venue: British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 8YS 

Chair: Geoff Bilder

Speakers: Bruce D. Rosenblum, Bill Kasdorf, Chris Baker, Eamonn Neylon

The meeting will explain what the NLM DTD is all about – and why it is
becoming the standard for preparing scholarly content for both books and
journals.  The speakers will explain its background and development, its use
and application, and the benefits and challenges of adopting this new
standard.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) created the Journal Archiving and
Interchange Document Type Definition (DTD) with the intention of providing a
common format in which publishers and archives can exchange journal content.
Released in 2003 it has already been adopted by hundreds of journals
worldwide.  Journal compositors and service suppliers are already using it
as the de facto standard full-text DTD for publishing. 

The NLM DTD is also popular with aggregators.  It is the ‘house’ system used
by Atypon, the recommended DTD for full-text content at Ingenta and HighWire
Press and used for PubMed Central.  Most recently the British Library and
the Library of Congress have announced that they support NLM DTD as their
archiving standard for electronic content.  It has also been adopted by
Portico.

Who should attend: Production Managers and Directors who are considering
adopting this new standard; Senior Publishing Managers who need to be aware
of the implications of NLM DTD for their work processes, and the impact it
will have for their authors and contributors; and suppliers involved in
content provision to the scholarly publishing community.    

 

Speakers:

Bruce D. Rosenblum, Inera Inc

Bill Kasdorf, Apex CoVantage

Chris Baker, Freelance Project Management for Electronic Publishing

Eamonn Neylon, British Standards Institute

 

Fees: including lunch (excl VAT) ALPSP members £100.00; Academic £115.00;
Non Members £165.00

 

For more information and to book please follow link:
<http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?id=228&did=47&aid=1244&st=&oai
d=-1> A Standard XML Document Format: The case for the adoption of NLM DTD?

 

Alternatively contact Diane French: Telephone/Fax: 01827 709188,  Email:
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