I am hopeful that the following will be adequate to meet the requirements of the committee.

Murray Maloney is technical writer by trade, a markup language expert by circumstance and an inventor by necessity. He has been writing, editing, typesetting and publishing technical manuals, books, specifications and standards since 1977. HIs first manual was hand written on foolscap and typed on an IBM Selectric typewriter. The second was similarly handwritten, transcribed by typewriter, typeset and then cut and pasted onto boards for composition. Subsequent books were produced using a variety of markup languages, including nroff, troff, SGML, HTML and XML. As early as 1993, Murray was producing highly navigable and semantically rich book sets using HTML. Murray has been involved in the development of publishing standards including: DocBook, HTML, XML, XML Schema.

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As a technical author/editor, I have an interest being able to publish books that are easily navigable and semantically rich. In particular, I am interested in editorial and production workflow, glossaries and indexes, layout definition and control, accessibility and standardization. I am currently working with Dr Robert J Glushko to produce a new text book aimed at ISchools. We are employing DocBook XML as our editing format and subsequently converting to XHTML5, PDF, ePub3 and Mobi formats for publication.

As a markup language expert, I have an interest in employing the XML and HTML toolchains. Moreover, I am keenly interested in methods for semantic encoding of information to expose the author's intent. Notably, I am interested in the use of REL/REV and CLASS attributes to convey the meaning of links and element items. Moreover, I am interested in promoting the development of richer hypertext links, such as n-ary links and link bases.

I propose to contribute to the workshop the perspective of an experienced author/editor who has extensive production experience with book publishing, markup languages and standardization. 

Regards,

Murray