XML & Digital Printing Day
Wednesday, 14 June

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0900 - 12 30
XML & digital printing: XML for publishing & printing industries
(For: all delegates)

Chair: Nils Enlund, Professor, The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

XML is a family of metadata and web standards that will play a major role in web, cross-media and print publishing. This session and its conclusion in the afternoon will cover various aspects of content management, media production, output and delivery in web media, and digital printing systems.

Widely Distributed Digital Printing
Kenneth M Brooks, Jr, Vice President, Digital Content, Barnes & Noble, Inc, USA
With the advent of on-demand printing and fulfillment of books centrally and at point-of-purchase, digital printing is poised to take the book publishing and retailing industries by storm. This presentation will address some of the challenges we're facing in the management of a large-scale distributed printing application across a wide variety of print engines.

XML-based IFRAtrack - the glue for integration in business-wide media workflow management systems
Stig Nordqvist, PhD, CIO, Göteborgs-Posten Group, Sweden; Additional authors: Johan Stenberg, PhD, Managing Director, MWM AB, Sweden; Fredrik Fällström, PhD, Development Manager, MWM AB, Sweden
Content management and production processes in the media industry are becoming more complex. This puts new demands on management and creates new possibilities of intersystem integration. The new XML-based IFRAtrack recommendation is a tracking information interchange mechanism for integrating production management systems in the media industry.

Electronic book conversion and manufacturing using embedded tagging tools
William J Ray , PhD, President, Group InfoTech, Inc, USA
Large scale OCR conversion of out-of-print books has become both economically viable and desirable with the advent of internet distribution and the general availability of both print-on-demand (POD) systems and the E-book. This paper describes a new manufacturing and embedded tagging process associated with the conversion of data from physical pages to tagged electronic files. The paper, specifically, describes a set of new tagging tools that allow the user to provide for significantly reduced cost for tag creation.

Modules for an XML schema in the book-on-demand process
A.C. Hübler, Director of Institute, Chemnitz Technical University & K. Kreulich, Academic, Chemnitz Technical University, Institute for Print- and Media Technology, Germany
XML provides new opportunities for Book-on-Demand applications, in particular it directly supports subtler content management methods for individual user requirements. The presentation illustrates how to use and implement these capabilities.

1430 - 1720
XML & digital printing: management of digital printing (TAGA)
(For: all delegates)

Chair: Simo Karttunen, Professor DTech, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

XML is a family of metadata and web standards that will play a major role in web, cross-media and print publishing. This session and its predecessor in the morning will cover various aspects of content management, media production, output and delivery in web media and digital printing systems.

PPML (Personalized Printing Markup Language) - a new industry standard print language
Dave deBronkart, Senior Consultant, Print On Demand Initiative (PODi), USA; Peter Davis, Principal Consulting Software Engineer, Pageflex, Inc, USA
Personalized printing (also known as variable data printing, variable info printing, etc.) is the highest-value application for high quality full color digital printing: it allows creation of brochures, mail shots, menus etc. that are attention-getting because they are truly personalized, with variable content selected for the interests of the individual. But until now personalization has only been possible through proprietary, closed systems, which has restricted buyers' choice of software and machinery. This session presents PPML, a brand-new XML-based industry standard printer language defined by PODi, an industry-wide consortium of 13 companies for variable data printing.

Book ticket files and imposition templates for variable data printing: fundamentals for PPML
Dirk De Bosschere, Systems Development Manager - Digital Printing Systems, Barco Graphics, Digital Printing Systems, Belgium
Barco's has a reputation of building innovative solutions and products for Personalized and Digital Printing. Long before the PPML standard (Personalized Printing Markup Language) was built, Barco understood the appropriateness for using XML in describing personalized documents and how pages are to be 'imposed' on digital presses. This presentation amplifies on the 'Book Ticket Files' and 'Imposition Templates', and their concepts that contributed to the PPML standard.

Selecting and utilizing metadata of news articles
Asta Bäck, Senior Research Scientist, VTT Information Technology, Finland
During the publishing process metadata are needed for different purposes. This paper lists these and analyses various metadata dictionaries with regard to the metadata aspects they cover. This paper reports a case implementation where metadata are used to support electronic publishing services for end-users and editors. Some of the metadata are created explicitly and some are collected semiautomatically or automatically. It concludes with experiences gained from using this metadata and processing the actual XML-articles for rendering.

Finishing technologies in digital printing: making digitally printed documents professional
Anastasios Politis, Research Scientist, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Greece
The increased use of digital printing systems has necessitated the development of new finishing and binding systems for the documents that are digitally printed. A quite important issue on finishing technologies for digital printing systems is the requirement for digitally printed documents to be as good, look as "professional" and function as the traditionally finished ones. This presentation reviews this and other issues for digitial printing systems.

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