1. XML Workflows
Why bother?
Alan Harvey
Stanford University Press

2. Who am I?

3. Stanford University Press
• 115 years old
• Department of the Library
• 165 new titles each year
• Mixture of humanities and social sciences
• No journals…

4. Stanford University Press
• Traditional workflow

6. Stanford University Press
• Traditional workflow
• Mix of in-house and freelance production
• Non-technical author base

7. Established Outlets
• E-book aggregators
– NetLibrary
– ebrary
– Questia
– ….
• Google
• Amazon

8. All PDF

9. Reasons
• Authors
• Staff
• Resources
• Lack of outlets

10. When needed, we can
back-end convert.

11. • XML is great for a large corpus
• Most UPs don’t have a large corpus
• Research has shown advanced H&SS
readership is more comfortable with PDF

12. But

13. • Apple
• Sony
• Barnes & Noble
• Google
..and eventually
• Amazon