Liza Daly

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President at Threepress Consulting Inc.

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Liza Daly’s Summary

I am an independent consultant specializing in software development and strategy for the publishing industry. Recent client work includes a book-centric social networking site (in private beta, to launch in early 2009), user generated content development for PBS Broadcasting, and work on a public interface for O'Reilly Media's RDF metadata service OPMI.

In February 2009 O'Reilly acquired my site Bookworm, a web-based ebook reader showcasing the open ePub standard. It is now part of their Labs R&D program.

Past publishing clients have included Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, O'Reilly Media, Rosen Publishing and SAGE Publications.

In November 2008 I presented a free webinar sponsored by O'Reilly Media on digitization aimed at publishers.

In 2008 I was selected to be on the program committees for Web 2.0 Expo in NYC and Tools of Change 2009. I presented two talks at TOC 2009: Buiding a Better Web-based Book and Survey of Current E-Readers.

IBM DeveloperWorks recently published two articles of mine: high-performance XML parsing in Python and a tutorial on creating digital books using the ePub standard.

In 2007 O'Reilly published my book "Next Generation Web Frameworks in Python" as part of their Short Cuts e-book series. I have also done technical edits for O'Reilly CSS and Python books, as was the author of two articles on OnLAMP about interactive fiction programming languages. I am a regular contributor to O'Reilly's Tools of Change and the TeleRead digital publishing blogs.

Liza Daly’s Specialties:

Publishing, epub, ebooks, XML, XSLT, XQuery, Python, Django, Pylons, TurboGears, Java, Tapestry, CSS, HTML, Inform, MarkLogic, SQL, database design, schema design, interactive fiction, technical writing,