Report from the Semantico Online Publishing Symposium on Mobile and Cross-platform Delivery
The inaugural Semantico Symposium was held recently in London to discuss implications of the shift to mobile for publishers and information providers. An invited audience of publishing industry leaders debated the issues under Chatham House rules, covering the following three themes:
This is the third and last of a series of blog posts (see part one and part two) in which I set out to examine the current state of identity management in our industry and where it’s going. The real point of this series has been to answer the question (which will be familiar to any parent of children who drives) ‘Are we there yet?’ – the destination in this case being not Legoland, but a much-discussed concept in our industry, Online Identity 2.0. Continue reading →
Written and delivered in partnership with Andrea Powell from CABI, this presentation is a case study of lessons drawn from the CAB Direct project, and highlights issues which are relevant across the board for publishers delivering online content. This includes looking at how to maximise value in the design of taxonomies and coding systems, how designing and improving user experience on the product side can lead to more stringent data quality requirements and some design strategies to minimise ongoing operational costs when designing data transfer workflows between systems. We also look at innovation in the design of machine level API interfaces.
You can watch the full presentation (45 mins) given to the STM E-Production Seminar on 3rd December in Kensington London. Please note that the video will be displayed in a new window.
More on this excellent seminar can be found at The International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers website.
Video by River Valley TV.
In part one of this series of three posts I attempted to describe the authentication and identity management environment that currently exists within the information industry. Next I’d like to look a bit more closely at the areas of personalisation, usage metrics and usability. These are all areas that hold significant challenges for online identity; issues which have particular bearing on the Web 2.0 services we all accept now as an established feature of mainstream internet use. Continue reading →
Publishers and information providers are in danger of cultivating a blind spot to one of the key issues currently inhibiting the growth of online information services: identity management.
The web as it exists today suffers from the lack of a consistent way of managing identity. There are challenges in both identifying myself to the sites I visit and in identifying those sites myself. Without any standard mechanism to deal with this, web developers have devised an array of different and incompatible schemes to manage identity. This presents serious challenges, since authenticity and trust are critically important concerns for publishers and information providers.
Continue reading →
The inaugural Semantico Symposium was held recently in London to discuss implications of the shift to mobile for publishers and information providers. An invited audience of publishing industry leaders debated the issues under Chatham House rules, covering the following three themes:
This is the third and last of a series of blog posts (see part one and part two) in which I set out to examine the current state of identity management in our industry and where it’s going. The real point of this series has been to answer the question (which will be familiar to any parent of children who drives) ‘Are we there yet?’ – the destination in this case being not Legoland, but a much-discussed concept in our industry, Online Identity 2.0. Continue reading 