Eamonn Neylon is the founder and principal consultant of Manifest Solutions. He has been involved with electronic publishing initiatives for almost ten years. With experience of scientific, legal and patent information publishing within the Thomson Corporation, he has a broad knowledge of publishing issues and business models. After being closely involved with several early innovative Internet publishing systems, Eamonn moved into the software development industry. There he worked on automated workflow modeling for journals publishers and digital rights management licensing systems. Eamonn has used SGML and XML throughout his career and is the Editor of interChange, the Newsletter of the International SGML/XML Users' Group. Manifest Solutions specializes in identifier and metadata management as applied to intellectual property entities by providing development and consultancy to the publishing and technology industries.