Concurrent 3B: Standards Crossing Boundaries: How Intersecting Standards and CrossSector Collaborations are Creating an Interoperable Publishing Ecosystem
This is a watershed moment in publishing. Cross-sector collaboration is creating a new, interoperable ecosystem that will make publishing more effective, accessible, and more efficient than ever.
This session will help you understand what lies ahead and how to make the most of this dynamic new digital world. Evan Owens will begin by discussing many of the key standards and services scholarly publishers have come to depend on, from —JATS and ORCiD to Crossref and CHORUS —, with a focus on their evolution from proprietary solutions to community-based activities and now toward the ever greater interoperability of our ecosystem.
Next, Bill Kasdorf will provide an overview of the important developments happening in other sectors. For example, the W3C and IDPF are collaborating to bring the Web and EPUB together into a single format for publications that works online or offline; work originating in the news industry promises to make rights expressions machine-readable; and metadata standards are converging to make content universally discoverable and interoperable.
Finally, Robin Seaman will discuss one of the most important barriers publishers currently face: accessibility. Most scholarly content is currently published in inaccessible forms. Robin will explain the key principles and strategies publishers can use today to make their publications more accessible, and will point to resources and organizations that can help.
