Paul Belfanti is Director of Content Architecture for Pearson Education. Paul has worked in educational publishing for 20 years in a variety of creative, production, and technology roles, and has been developing and supporting XML workflows since 2000. In 2009 he established the first ever team within Pearson fully focused on standards and best practices. Paul’s team has led development of standards around content structure (XML), metadata/taxonomy, rich media and image file formats, accessibility and assessment, among others, to lay the foundation for Pearson’s transformation to a unified global, digital and efficacy-driven learning services company.
Paul was program co-chair with Markus Gylling (CTO – IDPF and DAISY Consortium) of the EDUPUB 1 Workshop held in Boston in October 2013 and remains active in the development of the EDUPUB Alliance and promoting adoption of industry open standards within Pearson and across the educational publishing industry, and he was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).
