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Keith Fahlgren

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Publishing technologist


Areas of Expertise:
  • docbook
  • atompub
  • xml
  • publishing
  • ebooks
  • epub
  • opds
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming

Biography

Keith Fahlgren is the Publishing Technology Engineer at O'Reilly Media, where he develops systems that help create, maintain, enhance, reuse content. He's been involved in extending O'Reilly's use of DocBook and the DocBook-XSL stylesheets, and building an Atom Publishing Protocol infrastructure. Additionally, Keith helped start the Bay Area Functional Programmers and is a member of the OASIS DocBook SubCommittee for Publishers. More recently, Keith's been heavily involved with encouraging the adoption of the IDPF EPUB standard, reinvigorating O'Reilly Labs, launching a system for developing manuscripts collaboratively, and kickstarting the OPDS Catalog specification process. Keith has spoken about DocBook, XML in Publishing, and EPUB throughout the US and Canada.

Books

XML for Publishers XML for Publishers
by Keith Fahlgren
April 2008
Print: $399.00

Blog

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Collaborative Publishing Based on Community Feedback

May 21 2009

Traditional publishing has been moving closer to the web and learning a lot of lessons from blogs and wikis. Today we're happy to announce our Open Feedback Publishing System. read more

Dear Adobe Digital Editions Team

May 21 2009

Adobe has made extensive contributions to the world of EPUB software, but needs to go a few steps further with their Digital Editions product. read more

ePub Resources and Guides

March 03 2009

After being asked about ePub resources, I wrote up a categorized list of the places I'd go to find out more about the format, how to create it, and how to consume it. read more

DocBook-XSL 1.74.1 Released with Improved ePub Output

February 18 2009

Generate ePub files from your DocBook XML today using the first stable release with ePub support, DocBook-XSL 1.74.1. read more

O'Reilly Product Metadata Interface (OPMI) Usage At Tweet Length

February 13 2009

Start using our O'Reilly Product Metadata Interface (OPMI) with a couple of lines of Ruby. read more

History Repeats: Teaching Publishers Markup

February 12 2008

As someone who arrived much later to the XML party than most of my peers & mentors, this week's series of XML @ 10 years posts has been a wonderful history lesson. Today, Norm Walsh posted an even more surprising... read more

DocBook V5.0 (Committee Draft) is done!

February 06 2008

Via Norm, DocBook V5.0 is done. Woot! Committee Draft! Thanks to all who worked on this. Formally, too. ... read more

XML Conf 2007 Third Day

December 05 2007

Here's my notes from the last day of XML Conference 2007. David has collected some of the blogging about the conference.... read more

XML Conf 2007 Second Day

December 04 2007

This is the continuation of blogging from XML Conference 2007. See yesterday's post for more.... read more

XML Conf 2007 First Day

December 03 2007

Just like last year, I'll be blogging from XML Conference 2007. Rather than imposing some editorial structure, this'll simply be a serialization of the things I hear from various speakers in various sessions. ... read more

TOC Coverage

June 21 2007

Pointers to traditional media and blogosphere coverage at the TOC conference. read more

DocBook in the Wild: A Look at Newer Content

May 07 2007

Here's a quick follow-up to earlier post about DocBook elements in the wild. This time I'm focusing on five more recent titles that were all typeset using our DocBook-XSL stylesheet customizations. ... read more

DocBook Elements in the Wild

May 02 2007

The newly-formed DocBook SubCommittee for Publishers is currently researching commonly-used DocBook elements to explore whether a subset of DocBook 5.0 would be generally useful. I've been spending a lot of time getting O'Reilly's (DocBook 4.4) content into our new Atom... read more

XML Conf 2006 Closing Keynote (Bosak)

January 11 2007

Jon Bosak's closing keynote from XML Conference 2006 has just been posted. It's worth reading for anyone interested in XML history (or XML for that matter). It's also worth noting as a member of that rare breed of documents that... read more

XML Conf 2006 Third Day

December 07 2006

Here's the final day of my stream-of-conciousness blog on the 2006 XML Conference in Boston. ... read more

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