Adaptive Content Processing Conference 2008
The ACP ’08 Conference was held in the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam on 6/7th November 2008. The conference was jointly hosted by the EUAIN Network, the ProAccess Project and the Federation of Dutch Publishers and was held as part of the Amsterdam World Book Capital celebrations.
New technologies are changing the way in which we create, produce and consume content. Over the last few years, the publishing industry in Europe and beyond has been active in responding to the growing demand for more accessible, adaptive content. The publication of the recent Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy, also available as a word document, demonstrates the central role of these issues. At the ACP ’08 Conference we hosted a fascinating Round Table discussion on the Green Paper with some key voices from the publishing and accessibility communities.
There are a growing number of reasons for considering access-related issues within publishing production and value chains. The re-use of structured digital content provides a sound basis for related activities such as archiving, content re-aggregation and personalisation. This convergence between production and consumption is also reflected in new approaches to content processing which can offer excellent opportunities to open new value chains and extend existing markets.
We tried to bring together a wide range of stakeholders in adaptive content processing and we hope that you will find the online proceedings from this event useful and stimulating. Whether you just want to find out more about this increasingly important area, or are looking to deepen your knowledge on particular subjects, we trust you will fnd these presentations useful.
We would also like to thank again our Social Event sponsors, Humanware and Plextor, and our exhibitors: uWEAR, JISC TechDis, Solutions Radio, Dolphin Computer Access and Utrecht School of the Arts.