Keith Fahlgren

San Francisco, California

Publishing technologist

Areas of Expertise:

docbook
atompub
xml
publishing
ebooks

epub
opds
speaking
programming

Biography
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Keith Fahlgren is a Publishing Technology Consultant with Threepress. He specializes in helping publishers develop systems to create, maintain, enhance, and reuse written content. His contributions to the digital publishing ecosystem range from developing the open-source DocBook-XSL ePub Stylesheets to encouraging the adoption of the IDPF ePub standard to launching a system for collaborative manuscript development and kickstarting the OPDS Catalog specification process as part of the BookServer project. Keith was formerly at O'Reilly Media.

Keith has spoken about DocBook, XML in Publishing, BookServer & OPDS, and EPUB throughout the US and Canada.

XML for Publishers
by Keith Fahlgren
April 2008
OUT OF PRINT

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Keith blogs at:
http://labs.oreilly.com
http://radar.oreilly.com

Rails in a Nutshell Manuscript Open For Collaboration

October 19 2009

Following hot on the launch of the Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript manuscript three weeks ago, I'm pleased that Rails in a Nutshell, from Cody Fauser, James MacAulay, Edward Ocampo-Gooding and John Guenin is now live and... read more

Collaborative Publishing: One Brand New Title, One Success

September 29 2009

Another site focused on collaborative publishing, Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, launches while we look back on the first attempt to improve manuscripts by engaging the community in an open and collaborative dialog with the authors, Programming Scala. 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

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

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

TOC Coverage

June 21 2007

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

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