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 [...]
Category Archives: Technology
Quality assurance testing your e-publishing website with Selenium
As quality assurance assistant and junior developer for Semantico I spend a lot of time developing and implementing QA tests. Testing an e-publishing website can be time consuming.
Even a simple test of search functionality has several steps; go to the designated URL, log in, search, verify the search results, check hit highlighting, start an advanced [...]
‘Innovation from product to production’ at the STM E-Production Seminar
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 [...]
Online publishing tech buzz 2010
Taking inspiration from the stars (currently obscured by a thick layer of snow-clouds over Brighton) we bring you the online publishing tech buzz for 2010: what’s up, what’s down – and what’s coming back for a second time around.
This isn’t completely a matter of personal prejudice. We’ve taken as a starting point the Gartner hype [...]
Response to Online publishing, e-learning and knowledge management parts 1 & 2
Thanks for all the positive comments about these posts, and especially to Steve Weissman, who contributed this short summary, which has a pleasing conciseness I failed to achieve in the original pieces:
‘… KM is a business practice, e-learning a teaching (learning) technique, online publishing a distribution mechanism. The commonality? The underlying enabling technologies for each are [...]

Richard Padley
Managing Director,
Semantico