Standards Symposium 2021

Learn about new initiatives and activities currently underway at IEC and ISO, including XML-based authoring, collaboration on a shared XML schema, and machine-readability in the context of standards.

With Inera eXtyles, publishers of complex and structured content (journals, books, reports, and standards) can automate time-consuming editorial tasks and easily convert Word to XML. This session demonstrates how you can use eXtyles STS to create validated NISO STS XML files directly from Microsoft Word.

See a short demo of Standards Cloud, a free, fully web-based platform that enables National Standards Bodies to produce high-quality standard adoptions using the same technology and source XML that ISO uses—no technical or typesetting expertise needed!

The Standards Tag Suite (ANSI/NISO Z39.102-2017), or NISO STS, provides a common format for standards bodies, organisations, publishers, and archives to publish and exchange standards documents. In this session, Bruce Rosenblum of Atypon shares a history and overview of NISO STS Version 1.0, and what you can expect to see in a future Version 1.1.

20 May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day—what better time to discuss how publishing content in accessible formats makes it more usable for everyone! This session focuses on the principles of accessibility in publishing, and practical steps you can take to create accessible standards.

Publish your XML standards in PDF, HTML, EPUB, Microsoft Word, and more with Typefi! This demonstration shows how Typefi’s automated publishing platform produces multiple outputs, rendering typical content elements such as tables, figures, and math.

In 2019, the NIST Research Library began a pilot to publish in multiple formats for accessibility, reusability, discoverability, and ability to store in repositories. This case study explores how the NIST team is now using NISO STS to provide the structure needed to convert Microsoft Word documents to XML, and creating PDF, HTML, EPUB, and DAISY XML versions of the publications.

The Future of Documents is shaped by a fundamental change in how information is shared and agreements are secured. NISO STS has prepared standards creation very well for this. Jan Benedictus, Fonto CEO, reflects on Fonto’s experience with standards development organisations and what this means for authors, editors and reviewers of standards, as well as consumers of them.

The IEEE Standards Association is well known for producing widely-respected and adopted technology standards that are used around the world. In this case study, Patrick Gibbons of IEEE SA gives an overview of how IEEE SA met the challenges of implementing an XML publishing system and shares some of the continuing challenges they face.