The 2019 Typefi User Conference was held in Baltimore, MD on 2–3 May 2019 with delegates from 30 organisations joining the Typefi team for a jam-packed two days of learning, sharing, and networking.
Day 1 was dedicated to in-depth workshops, including a morning seminar on standards publishing, and afternoon tutorials on Typefi Designer templates and techniques for working with math in Typefi workflows. The Conference Dinner at Phillip’s Seafood in the evening was also a huge hit!
Day 2 featured a range of sessions, including real stories from Typefi users, Typefi product updates, publishing industry insights, and a lightning round of presentations from Typefi’s and Inera’s Solutions Consultants.
This year, Typefi also introduced a Brilliant Bar, offering customers the opportunity to book a short consultation with Professional Services team members throughout the day.
The conference sessions were all recorded—browse the links below to check them out!
It’s beneficial to have a chance to see the Typefi team for face-to-face conversations and to learn what is new and what is coming up. I also like seeing and hearing how others are using Typefi.
In this presentation from the 2019 Typefi User Conference, Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of NISO, discusses the history and development of the NISO Standards Tag Suite (STS), an XML standard for publishing standards, and the benefits it offers to the global standards publishing community.
Standards Cloud is the fastest and easiest way to create ISO adoptions! This fully web-based platform enables NSBs to produce professional standards adoptions using the same technology and source XML that ISO uses—no technical or typesetting expertise needed.
When and where should you introduce XML to your publishing workflow? During authoring? Before editing? Before composition? Or after publication? Robin Dunford, Senior Solutions Consultant at Inera, discusses the pros and cons of all four approaches, with particular reference to implementing the NISO Standards Tag Suite (STS) for standards publishing.
IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organisation. In this presentation, Patrick Gibbons, Senior Solutions Manager at IEEE, shares insights into the IEEE Standards Association's experience of implementing an XML workflow with Inera eXtyles and Typefi.
ASTM International is a world-leading standards development organisation. In this presentation, Kara Laufer Levesque, Publishing Manager at ASTM International, shares insights into her experiences and the challenges and opportunities of working in standards publishing today.
Creating your content in accessible formats makes it more usable for everyone! In this presentation, Solutions Consultant Damian Gibbs discusses the principles of accessibility. He also explains how Typefi can help customers produce content in accessible formats with minimal additional cost.
Typefi’s software is continually evolving to adapt to a changing technological landscape and to meet the needs of Typefi customers. In his annual product update from 2019, Caleb Clauset, VP Product, reveals the new features that Typefi has implemented over the past 12 months and offers a sneak peek of what’s in store in the future.
The team at Kaplan Professional Education needed to find a way to make their content more flexible, and XML seemed to be the answer. In this case study, Peyton Bentley (Information Architect, Kaplan Professional Education) talks about how the team implemented DITA, and explains how using XML has not only improved their publishing workflows but has truly made their content more flexible.
Typefi enabled The Institutes to increase its publishing output by 1900% over five years and to offer customised content on demand, all with the same staffing resources. Check out this presentation to learn how The Institutes achieved these results with DITA XML and Typefi.
Anyone who has developed and implemented a Typefi-based publishing project knows that it’s a team effort! In this presentation, Jason Mitchell, Typefi VP of Customer Experience, shares his theory on how publishing teams can set themselves up for success using the training Typefi offers and the knowledge and experience of Typefi's Professional Services team.
In this presentation, B. Tommie Usdin, President of Mulberry Technologies, argues that the long-term value of XML is not in the XML itself, but in the nature of the markup. By focusing on “descriptive markup” rather than “XML syntax” we can talk about the real value in the push towards interchange of XML documents.
In this presentation, Tim Siers, Technical Director and Co-founder of collaborative online authoring tool MasterDocs, shares how the Australian Government is using MasterDocs combined with digital publishing to develop content for its new Transparency Portal.
Typefi Senior Solutions Consultant Guy van der Kolk shares some lesser-known Typefi 8 validation features, and demonstrates how to access the version history of your files in Typefi Server.
Robin Dunford, Inera Senior Solutions Consultant, introduces eXtyles Arc, an intelligent hands-free solution that performs sophisticated, fully automated analysis of unstructured Word content to identify document elements and accurately convert them to full-text XML.
Math typesetting can be a drag, but you can make short work of it with movemen MathTools and some tricky InDesign scripts! Typefi Senior Solutions Consultant Eric Damitz demonstrates some of the math typesetting scripts that are available to Typefi customers.
Typefi doesn't do infographics… or DOES IT? Typefi Solutions Consultant David Popham shows you how to automatically create a stylish infographic with Typefi Writer and a simple Typefi Designer template.
To create a box with a shaded background, Typefi users will generally create a Typefi Element. However, InDesign now offers some native features that allow users to achieve a similar effect using Paragraph Styles. Solutions Consultant Jamie Brinkman demonstrates both methods, highlighting the pros and cons of each.
Typefi's Professional Services team is always looking for ways to help customers DO MORE. Solutions Consultant Marie Gollentz demonstrates a new EPUB workflow that allows users to create both PDF and EPUB from a single InDesign template.
Information Architect | Kaplan Professional Education
Peyton Bentley
Business Development Manager | UK
Stephen Laverick
Technical Director & Co-founder | MasterDocs
Tim Siers
President | Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
B. Tommie Usdin
B. Tommie Usdin is President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy specialising in XML for prose documents.
Tommie has been working with SGML since 1985 and has been a supporter of XML since 1996. She chairs “Balisage: The Markup Conference” and is a frequent speaker at JATS-Con, MarkupUK, and other conferences. She is co-chair of the NISO Z39-96, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite Working Group, and a member of the NISO STS Standing Committee and the BITS Committee.
Tommie has developed DTDs, Schemas, and XML/SGML application frameworks for applications in government and industry. Projects include reference materials in medicine, science, engineering, and law; semiconductor documentation; historical and archival materials. Distribution formats have included print books, magazines, and journals, and both web- and media-based electronic publications.
VP Product + New Markets | USA
Caleb Clauset
Caleb drives the vision and strategy for Typefi’s products, and cultivates strategic partnerships with developers to extend Typefi’s core capabilities. He is an award-winning designer and Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign with over a decade’s experience designing, developing and implementing publishing technology. He holds a Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Solutions Consultant | South Africa
Damian Gibbs
Damian started out as an apprentice typesetter over 20 years ago at a leading South African educational publisher, and from the start was curious about opportunities that digital technologies bring to publishing. He transitioned to general market publishing and eventually became a service provider to local and offshore publishers covering a diverse range of publishing markets, all requiring varying workflows and output requirements.
Damian has extensive experience working with publishers to use evolving technologies and innovative digital publishing products to improve workflows, and to transition from pure print to digital outputs such as web, e-books, and CMS publishing.
Solutions Consultant | Typefi
David Popham
David produced his first publication 25 years ago using PageMaker as part of a job in college athletics, and has been a publishing enthusiast ever since. Most recently, he was a graphic designer for a research think tank and has worked as a production artist in the educational publishing sector.
One of David’s favourite things to do is help others automate their publishing workflows so they can focus on other aspects of their work. He has a degree in Agribusiness, has completed coursework in Public Relations from Western Kentucky University, and is an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign.
QA Manager | Sri Lanka
Dilum Samarajeewa
Dilum is a dedicated and highly energetic IT professional with over 12 years of experience in technical support. As QA Manager at Typefi, he provides technical support for clients in the US, Europe, and Australia. In 2021, Dilum joined Typefi’s Product team, focusing on XSLT-based workflow plug-ins and taking ownership of the Standards Cloud web-based platform.
Dilum holds an Information Technology degree from Middlesex University in the UK, and takes pride in providing creative direction and out of the box thinking. Dilum enjoys complex, multifaceted assignments where pulling together a collaborative pool of skills is essential.
Senior Solutions Consultant | USA
Eric Damitz
As a Senior Solutions Consultant, Eric works with customers to determine the best way to use Typefi for their particular needs, and then implements their solution. He started in publishing over 20 years ago as a TeX typesetter at a small development house, where he learned such valuable skills as opaquing film, making Dylux proofs, and pasting up forms with hot wax. He also learned desktop publishing, which was somewhat more useful. He moved to a large educational publishing company and spent 17 years as a production manager working with his colleagues to re-invent how publishing works—several times.
Eric’s particular skillset focuses on publishing automation, workflow improvement, and single-source publishing for both digital and print. He has a degree in Rhetoric (writing, not arguing) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Product Manager | Netherlands
Guy van der Kolk
Guy first got hooked on publishing while attending an international school in Ivory Coast, where he used Pagemaker, Photoshop and an Apple Quicktake 100 camera to help create the yearbook. After many hours of hard work, while holding the final printed product, he knew this was an industry he wanted to be a part of.
Having spent the first 17 years of his life in West Africa, Guy is fluent in three languages and has a multicultural background that has served him well in his career. As an IT consultant and trainer for an Apple Premium reseller and then as a Senior Solutions Consultant for Typefi, he has trained thousands of people to get the most out of their software.
In 2020, Guy moved into the role of Typefi Product Manager, working with the product and engineering teams to continue to improve on our world-leading publishing software and bring you exciting new features. He continues to apply his deep product knowledge in a Professional Services capacity, working on projects with new and current customers.
Senior Solutions Consultant | USA
Jamie Brinkman
Jamie joined Typefi as a Solutions Consultant in 2014, bringing 10 years of experience as a Senior Content Editor with a multinational mass media and information firm. She is highly skilled in layout and design, and has extensive experience in copy editing utilising AP, Chicago, and company-specific style guidelines.
As a Typefi Senior Solutions Consultant, Jamie works closely with customers to develop and implement automated publishing solutions, as well as providing ongoing training and support.
VP Customer Success | UK
Jason Mitchell
Jason leads Typefi’s global Professional Services team and has over 15 years of experience in managing publishing operations and digital products for both small and large publishing houses. He has successfully led teams to redefine the publishing process to include digital products and improve profitability in the travel and medical publishing sectors.
Solution Architect | Jacquette Consulting
Jim Cain
Jim has 20+ years of experience in software architecture, design, development, and systems integration for the publishing, education, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries.
Publishing Manager | ASTM International
Kara Laufer Levesque
Kara is a Publishing Manager at ASTM International. She has over a decade of experience in project management and seven years of experience in publishing.
Kara has managed the production of online and print journals as well as standards and translated content. She currently focuses on the production of third party content for ASTM’s Compass platform.
IT Director | Typefi
Karl Jankowski
With 17+ years’ experience in software development companies, a Bachelor of Science, and a Masters in Business Administration, Karl oversees and maintains the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Typefi’s technology infrastructure.
As well as working behind the scenes to support the continuous development of Typefi products and services, Karl often works with Typefi’s R&D and Professional Services teams to develop solutions, and provides support and advice to Typefi customers.
Project Manager | France
Marie Gollentz
Working closely with Typefi’s team of experts, Marie manages client projects to ensure they are successfully delivered and meet their specific needs. Marie develops Typefi’s project management process to continuously improve client collaboration. Marie joined Typefi in 2016 as a Solutions Consultant and brings to her current role, a wealth of experience in helping clients adopt the best solution to achieve their goals. In 2022, Marie achieved her Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) qualification. Prior to Typefi, Marie held a number of positions in the publishing industry in London (UK), including for the publisher of Research Fortnight and the London School of Business and Finance. She graduated with a Masters degree in European Political Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Sciences from Sciences Po Strasbourg (France). She is trilingual in English, French and Spanish.
Senior Solutions Manager | IEEE
Patrick Gibbons
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE SA) is a leading consensus building organisation that nurtures, develops and advances global technologies through IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organisation. With collaborative thought leaders in more than 160 countries, IEEE SA promotes innovation, enables the creation and expansion of international markets, and helps protect health and public safety.
Patrick Gibbons has an MLS with a concentration in Information Storage and Retrieval from Rutgers University, and has over 25 years’ experience in electronic publishing with Elsevier, ProQuest, and IEEE. As Senior Solutions Manager for the IEEE Standards Association, he is the technical point person for IEEE SA’s standards XML and PDF publishing program.
Information Architect | Kaplan Professional Education
Peyton Bentley
Peyton has worked in printing and publishing for over 20 years, and has been involved with numerous aspects of the industry, from editing to layout to printing. His interest in cutting-edge technology drew him to e-book creation and then to DITA.
As the first Information Architect for Kaplan Professional Education, he has been involved with developing the roles and responsibilities of the IA position, creating a content model, and moving legacy content to DITA.
Business Development Manager | UK
Stephen Laverick
Stephen has over 20 years’ experience in scholarly publishing, with time spent working in both the UK and China. Primarily focused on digital publishing solutions, Stephen has experience in overseeing the development of robust, scalable and efficient XML-first workflows for Open Access mega-journals as well as tailoring bespoke solutions around specific publisher requirements.
Stephen is currently serving on the Steering Committee of JATS For Reuse (JATS4R) aiming to encourage standardisation and best practices in the use of JATS XML, as well as participating on the NISO working group for Manuscript Exchange.
Technical Director & Co-founder | MasterDocs
Tim Siers
Tim is a co-founder at MasterDocs, an Australian company founded in 2013. He has fifteen years’ experience delivering hundreds of content management, digital publishing and collaboration projects for Federal Government and other public sector clients.
