Threepress Consulting Inc.

Publishers have great content but limited resources, and the market for online distribution changes rapidly. Liza has experience in working with a range of budgets and project sizes, with tasks from vendor selection to data modeling to full site builds:

• E-book development: ePub, DocBook and TEI
• Digitization and digital archiving (Slides from a free webcast about digitization)
• Data modeling: XML schema design or SQL-based databases
• Full text search: MarkLogic, Autonomy, Lucene, Xapian
• Search engine optimization (SEO)
• Online marketing: blogs, harnessing user-generated content, community-building, social networking
• Software engineering: Python, Django, Java, Perl, XSLT, XQuery

Recent client work

• Shelfworthy: a books and media social networking site (launch 2009).
• PBS (Public Broadcasting Corporation): Django applications for user-generated content (launch early 2009)
• Private ePub consulting and development

Recent open source work

• Bookworm, an online ePub reader. Ongoing.
• ePub libraries and tools

Earlier client work

Before becoming an independent consultant, Liza worked as a senior software engineer at iFactory where she specialized in publishing projects, including:

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for Oxford University Press: site architect, lead engineer
• Teen Health and Wellness for Rosen Publishing: developer of editorial management system, lead engineer
• SAGE eReference for SAGE Publications: XML schema design, ATHENS integration, OpenURL implementation
• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry for Columbia University Press: lead engineer
• Who's Who for Oxford University Press: site architect, lead engineer

Liza also writes extensively for technology and publishing blogs: read more.

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