Richard Padley is Managing Director of Semantico. He founded Semantico in 1999 to help publishers realise the full potential of internet technologies for delivering digital information services. Before this worked on book and electronic production at Macmillan from 1984-1999. His interest and evangelism for the world wide web lead to the ground breaking publication of the Grove Dictionary of Art online in 1997, followed by the Grove Online Dictionary of Opera in 1998. The work involved ranged from building content management systems through to running focus groups with academics and library professionals and creating and testing the information architecture models which later became de-facto standards for online reference. Richard has a BSc in Computer Science and lives in Brighton.
February 24, 2010 – 7:51 am
Should publishers sell books using Apple’s App Store or iBookstore?
Many publishers have started using the iPhone App Store as a channel to sell book content by packaging e-books as applications. There are currently 18,000 books in the App Store, and books are the fastest growing category of application in the store.
With the launch of the [...]
February 3, 2010 – 2:27 pm
This is the third and last of a series of blog posts (see part one and part two) in which I set out to examine the current state of identity management in our industry and where it’s going. The real point of this series has been to answer the question (which will be familiar to [...]
January 27, 2010 – 9:34 pm
Publishing techies like myself have been waiting for a long time for Apple to launch their tablet device. With the accelerating interest in eBooks, and the ignition of the eBook marketplace with devices such as the Kindle and Sony reader, I’ve been keen to see how Apple’s entry into the tablet marketplace will change the [...]
January 13, 2010 – 1:12 pm
Written and delivered in partnership with Andrea Powell from CABI, this presentation is a case study of lessons drawn from the CAB Direct project, and highlights issues which are relevant across the board for publishers delivering online content. This includes looking at how to maximise value in the design of taxonomies and coding systems, how designing and [...]
November 18, 2009 – 4:14 pm
The ability to personalise and customise websites is taken for granted in the Web 2.0 world. But new user expectations provide problems for identity management.
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Richard Padley
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