Francis Cave - XML consultancy, training, technical support, DTD and schema development

<BODY> <TABLE WIDTH="100%"> <TR VALIGN="BOTTOM"> <TD VALIGN="BOTTOM"> <IMG SRC="franciscave.PNG" ALT="Francis Cave Digital Publishing" WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="73"></TD> <TD VALIGN="BOTTOM">  <H3 STYLE="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-align: right; margin-bottom: 24pt; margin-top: 0pt; font-style: italic">consultancy, training, technical support <BR>for SGML, XML, content management, production, online delivery<BR></H3></TD> </TR> </TABLE><HR> <DIV STYLE="background-color : silver; margin-bottom : 1em; padding : 1em;"> <P STYLE="font-weight : bold; font-size : large;">A technical introduction to ONIX and XML</P> <P STYLE="font-weight : bold;">The British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1<BR> Thursday 25 April 2013</P> <P>The latest in a series of courses that I am presenting for Book Industry Communication. The aim of the course is to provide a basic introduction to both XML and ONIX, aimed at those who need to understand the technical detail of both, in order to implement systems for producing or consuming ONIX records. To reserve your place on this course visit <A HREF="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/5342704172">http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/5342704172</A>.</P> </DIV> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: bold">Francis Cave Digital Publishing</SPAN> was established in September 1999 with the aim of delivering a range of XML consultancy, training, system design and implementation services. It is the trading name of Francis Cave, an SGML/XML expert with more than twenty years' experience in the field. </P> <P>The range of services currently on offer includes:</P> <UL> <LI>advice on all aspects of the use of XML in publishing, including: <UL> <LI>strategic reviews, technical audits, feasibility studies and business case development</LI> <LI>project design, including DTD, schema and stylesheet design and development</LI> <LI>data capture and conversion methods</LI> <LI>editorial, content management and production system selection, integration and configuration</LI> <LI>processing XML for paper-based delivery</LI> <LI>processing XML for online and other modes of electronic delivery</LI> </UL></LI> <LI>introductory and advanced training in XML editing, DTD and schema writing</LI> <LI>quality assurance in XML publishing projects</LI> </UL> <P>Recent and current development projects in which Francis has or is played a leading role include:</P> <UL> <LI>configuration of FrameMaker templates for production of UK Parliamentary documents (Amendments to Parliamentary Bills)</LI> <LI>specification of a Word-to-XML workflow for production of UK Parliamentary documents (including the House of Commons Order Paper)</LI> <LI>development of XML DTDs, schemas and associated XSLT scripts for global e-commerce trading standards for the book and serials industries, including the ONIX and EDItX families of XML formats published by <A HREF="http://www.editeur.org/">EDItEUR</A> and a series of web service standards published by <A HREF="http://www.bic.org.uk/">Book Industry Communication</A>. </LI> <LI>development, in collaboration with <A HREF="http://www.griffinbrown.co.uk/">Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd,</A> of an open source tool to enable the creation of XML expressions of publications licenses in EDItEUR's ONIX-PL format  see the <A HREF="http://ople.sourceforge.net">Sourceforge OPLE Project</A>.</LI> </UL> <P>Francis Cave is Technical Project Manager of the <A HREF="http://www.the-acap.org">ACAP Project</A>. He is Chairman of <A HREF="http://www.xmluk.org/">XML UK</A> and is also Chairman of IST/41, the Technical Committee of <A HREF="http://www.bsi-global.com/">BSI</A> responsible for XML and related standards. </P> <H3>Also on this site ...</H3> <UL STYLE="list-style-type: disc"> <LI><A HREF="noframes/enquiry-form.htm" TARGET="main" STYLE="color: maroon; text-decoration: none">Enquiries</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="noframes/links.htm" TARGET="main" STYLE="color: maroon; text-decoration: none">Some SGML, XML and related links</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="onix/" STYLE="color: maroon; text-decoration: none" TARGET="main">e-Commerce projects for the book and serials industries</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sssh/" STYLE="color: maroon; text-decoration: none" TARGET="main">SSSH - Simplified SGML for Serial Headers</A></LI> </UL> <H3>Other websites that I host ...</H3> <UL STYLE="list-style-type: disc"> <LI><A HREF="www.holmburystmary.org.uk/choralsociety" STYLE="color: maroon; text-decoration: none">Holmbury St Mary Choral Society</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="www.holmburystmary.org.uk/church" STYLE="color: maroon; text-decoration: none">Parish Church of St Mary's, Holmbury St Mary</A></LI> </UL> </BODY>