X-Pubs 2008 Announces two Speakers From Oasis DITA Learning and Training Sub-Committee

LONDON, February 28 /PRNewswire/ --     DITA Learning and Training Sub-Committee Chair John Hunt, IBM and member,
Matthew Ellison, Ellison Consulting to present at Europe's Largest XML and
Component CMS (CCMS) Conference - June 22-24 London, UK

"Every year X-Pubs has had DITA committee members on our speaker panel,
but this year we're choosing to highlight the Learning and Training community
more than ever before," said Noz Urbina, XML Consultant and member of the
topic-review board for X-Pubs. "Having both John and Matthew is major benefit
to the conference as they will provide their rich experience to those seeking
to understand how to best apply DITA to Learning, Training and Online Help.

"The Learning and Training materials market is drawing major interest and
investment from all over the Technical Communications industry. Our attendees
want to be able to allow for customisation, recombination, and user
collaboration in their content systems. John and Matthew will be able to show
practical applications of training and help generally, and how the DITA
standard is meeting new requirements."

X-Pubs 2008 attendees will be educated about the future of dynamic
content delivery and web 2.0 and the Darwin Information Typing Architecture,
where users, customers, instructors, and learners can customize, remix,
intermingle, and transform information to meet their specific needs.

Attendees can pre-register today without obligation on
http://www.x-pubs.com. Early registrants get first pick entry on free
Pre-Conference Workshops.

Speaker highlights:

- Rockley Group's Charles Cooper illuminates the black art of
Taxonomy and Metadata

- Chris Woods, British Aerospace Engineering (BAE)'s Technology
Manager and S1000D expert

- Specification Manager Gunnar Krause shares Qimonda's research
used to choose Content Reuse methodology

- JoAnn Hackos, author of and Mekon Ltd's Noz Urbina return with
their own 'how-to' presentations

- Amanda Bucklow, Information Management and Strategy expert

- Many more...

About X-Pubs

X-Pubs organises and delivers webinars, seminars, case-studies and
whitepapers from some of the industry's most valued minds to educate on and
promote the content standard such as XML, the Darwin Information Typing
Architecture (DITA), and S1000D. Every year X-Pubs organises the X-Pubs
Conference, Europe's Largest and XML Content Management and XML Publishing
conference.

For more information, please contact:

    Noz Urbina
    Conference Administrator: X-Pubs
    +44(0)208-722-8400
    info@x-pubs.com

    http://www.x-pubs.com / info@x-pubs.com