Thank you so much for organising this conference – it was a great opportunity to meet, talk, and hear about current industry trends.
Typefi welcomed more than 70 guests at the Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront on 17-18 March 2016 for the fourth annual Typefi User Conference.
The Publishing for Standards Professionals workshop on Thursday morning proved extremely popular, with representatives from Standards Development Organisations and National Standards Bodies attending from around the world.
Bruce Rosenblum, CEO of Inera and Co-Chair of the NISO Standards Tag Suite (STS) Working Group, kicked off the session with a detailed update on the NISO STS project. Typefi Senior Solutions Consultant Gabriel Powell followed with a comprehensive presentation on building accessibility into standards publishing workflows.
Laurent Galichet, Publishing Manager at the International Organization for Standardization, and Antti Saari, Publishing Specialist at the Finnish Standards Association, both spoke about the challenges and successes of implementing STS (Standards Tag Suite) XML workflows at their respective organisations.
Excellent conference. Good to see so many other customers there.
Thursday afternoon featured two focused Typefi tutorials – Deep Integration: Customising Typefi 8 with Ben Hauser, VP Engineering, and DO MORE: Migrating to Typefi 8 with Senior Solutions Consultant Guy van der Kolk – while Inera ran a successful concurrent workshop on new eXtyles features and best practices.
Friday morning commenced with a fascinating keynote from Astrid deRidder, Head of Content at Cambridge University Press, about the changing nature of publishing. Astrid reminded conference-goers that publishing has always been at the forefront of innovative technological change, and that publishers have a responsibility to ensure that their content is available to everyone.
Afternoon keynote speaker Bill Kasdorf, VP at Apex Content Solutions and General Editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, continued this theme, demonstrating how the rapid evolution of publishing technology is driving the development of standards to ensure accessibility to content for all.
Another highlight of the day was a customer case study presented by John Muenning, Director of Editorial Production Technology at the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), detailing the highly-respected medical journal’s implementation of and experience with Typefi.
It’s been really informative and inspiring. The team is fantastic and your commitment to customer service is really clear. Thank you!
Several Typefi technology partners demonstrated their publishing solutions throughout the day, including Phill Barratt from DeltaXML, Mark Winstone from SynApps Solutions, Bruce Rosenblum from Inera, and John Pettigrew from WeAreFutureproofs. Typefi Senior Solutions Consultants Eric Damitz and Gabriel Powell also provided demonstrations of in5 by Ajar Productions, and movemen MathTools.
Caleb Clauset, Typefi’s VP Product, presented some background and a demonstration of Typefi 8, announced the release of Typefi 8.1, and offered a sneak peak of the exciting new features currently in development and planned for the future. Jason Mitchell, Typefi’s Director of Professional Services, concluded the Conference with a presentation on Typefi’s high-performing Professional Services team, and their plans to offer a new range of support options for users in coming months.
Well done! Best Typefi User Conference yet.
Typefi CEO Chandi Perera agreed with attendees who said the 2016 Typefi User Conference was “the best one so far”.
“The Conference provides a perfect opportunity for our customers to meet our team and learn from others’ experiences, and it was great to see such an excellent turnout of our customers from around the world,” he said. “We had great feedback, and plenty of good ideas for topics to cover at the next Conference which will be held next year in the USA.”
Day 1 – Presentations
Multilingual Standards publishing using STS XML
- Categories: Multilingual Publishing, NISO STS, Standards
Antti Saari, editor at Finnish Standards Association (SFS), presented the process SFS has adopted for producing multi-lingual publications from STS XML at the Publishing for Standards Professionals workshop at the 2016 Typefi User Conference.
Update on the Standards Tag Set (STS)
- Categories: NISO STS, Standards
Bruce Rosenblum, CEO at Inera, has over 30 years of experience in design and development of electronic publishing solutions. He provided an update on the Standards Tag Set at the 2016 Typefi User Conference.
Accessibility in Standards publishing
- Categories: Accessibility, Standards
Gabriel Powell, Senior Solutions Consultant at Typefi, presented a session on Accessibility in Standards at the Publishing for Standards Professionals workshop during the 2016 Typefi User Conference.
Implementation of STS XML workflow at ISO
- Categories: Case Study, NISO STS, Standards
Laurent Galichet, Head of Publishing at ISO, discussed how ISO implemented a STS XML publishing workflow at the 2016 Typefi User Conference.
Typefi 8 Server API and SDK
- Category: Technology
Ben Hauser, Typefi VP Engineering, presented this tutorial at the 2016 Typefi User Conference, exploring the possibilities of Typefi 8’s API and SDK.
Day 2 – Presentations
The changing nature of publishing
- Category: Publishing
Astrid deRidder is Head of Content at Cambridge University Press, one of the world’s largest and most innovative university presses. She presented this thought-provoking Friday morning keynote on The Changing Nature of Publishing at the 2016 Typefi User Conference.
The grand convergence
- Category: Publishing
Bill Kasdorf, General Editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing and former President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, presented this keynote at the 2016 Typefi User Conference about the increasing interoperability of the publishing ecosystem.
Case Study: New England Journal of Medicine
- Category: Case Study
John Muenning, Director of Editorial Production Technology at New England Journal of Medicine, presented a case study at the 2016 Typefi User Conference detailing NEJM’s implementation of and experience with Typefi.
Inera eXtyles and Edifix
- Category: eXtyles
Bruce Rosenblum, CEO at Inera, provided an update on Inera products eXtyles and Edifix at the 2016 Typefi User Conference.
InDesign to HTML5 with in5
- Categories: HTML, InDesign
Eric Damitz, Senior Solutions Consultant at Typefi, presented at the 2016 Typefi User Conference about in5 software by Ajar Productions, which will take your designs straight from InDesign to HTML5.
Introduction to movemen MathTools
- Category: Math
Gabriel Powell, Senior Solutions Consultant at Typefi, presented an update on movemen MathTools at the 2016 Typefi User Conference.
Futureproofs
- Category: Technology
John Pettigrew, CEO of We Are Futureproofs, presented a Friday session at the 2016 Typefi User Conference on quality assurance, the importance of editorial, and the role of good tools and processes in being sure that our content is correct, worthwhile and ready for publication.
SynApps Solutions
- Category: Technology
Mark Winstone is CEO of SynApps Solutions. He presented a Friday session at the 2016 Typefi User Conference on Alfresco’s Open Source Enterprise Content Management Solution.
Introduction to DeltaXML
- Category: Technology
Phill Barrat, Global Business Development at DeltaXML, presented a session at the 2016 Typefi User Conference on the latest developments from the DeltaXML platform, looking at new products and how they can reduce time spent across publishing processes.
2016 Typefi product update
- Category: Product Update
Caleb Clauset, Typefi VP Product, demonstrated Typefi 8’s key new features and insights into what’s coming up next for Typefi at the 2016 Typefi User Conference.
2016 Professional Services update
- Category: Support
Jason Mitchell, Typefi VP Customer Experience, introduced Typefi’s global Professional Services team and discussed how the team can help you get the most out of the world’s most recommended publishing platform.