IDEAlliance Hosts Open Publish and Knowledge Technologies Conferences in Seattle

Open Publish

The first US offering of the Open Publish Conference Series was held on March 11-14 in Seattle. First offered in Sydney in July 2001, Open Publish was co-hosted by IDEAlliance and Allette Systems, Sydney Australia.

The need for standards and best practices in the publishing industry is now greater than ever as technology advances, and media continues to converge and evolve. The Open Publish Conference was designed to provide its membership and the broader publishing industry with an opportunity to learn about, participate in, and apply publishing industry standards and best practices. Attendees find this conference unique because it addresses all phases of publishing, not just creation, not just electronic delivery, and not just manufacturing. Open Publish all the stages of the publishing and digital print process— from design to creation to plate to print to Web to e-book to wireless!

Keynotes for this year's event included (left to right )Kyle Quinn, Director of Information Systems for Commercial Aviation at the Boeing company. In his keynote "Digital Publishing, a Boeing eBusinses," Quinn highlighted the leading edge publishing systems at the Boeing Company. David Johnson, of Buchanan Visual Communications provided the second keynote, focusing on Best Practices for the Printing Industry. Dianne Kennedy, XMLXperts, and Nick Carr, Allette Systems (not pictured) served as chairs for the event.

Keynotes and Chair for Open Publish 2002

Knowledge Technologies

The second Knowledge Technologies Conference was co-located with Open Publish in Seattle. Jim Mason, Chair of KT2002 open the conference with a few remarks about the nature of the conference. He thanked his Board of Advisors and Dianne Kennedy who helped organize the conference before Jim was named as Chairman.

KT2002 was the natural consequence of the rapidly growing interest in technologies that will provide tools to the knowledge management community and make the Semantic Web a reality. KT2002 highlights the latest developments in this quickly emerging world of Knowledge Technologies. This year's conference topics span the knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, knowledge organization, librarians, Internet, Semantic Web, knowledge management, asset management, machine learning and expert systems communities.

Jim Mason from DOE and ISO served as Chair for the event. Keynotes for this year's event (left to right) Dr. Claude Vogel, Chief Technology Officer, Semio Corporation and included Dr. Richard Ballard, Chief Scientist, Knowledge Foundations, Inc.