Bill Kasdorf

Bill Kasdorf is Principal of Kasdorf & Associates, LLC, a publishing technology consultancy focusing on editorial and production workflows and technologies, information infrastructure, and standards and best practices alignment to future proof content and systems. Accessibility has become an aspect of almost every engagement; some are purely accessibility evaluations and recommendations, especially for EAA and ADA Title II compliance.

Bill is a founding partner of Publishing Technology Partners. Past President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), Bill is a recipient of SSP’s Distinguished Service Award, the magazine industry’s Luminaire Award, the Book Industry Study Group’s Industry Champion Award, and NISO’s Cunningham Award for his longtime service to publishing.

Active in many standards initiatives, Bill is the Global Publishing Evangelist for the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) and serves on the Steering Committee of the Publishing@W3C Activity. He is also a member of NISO, currently co-chair of NISO’s ARM (Accessibility Remediation Metadata) Working Group and past co-chair of two other NISO Working Groups. He is a member of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), with a special focus on accessibility and EPUB implementation, serving on BISG’s Workflow Committee and its Accessibility and Metadata working groups. He is a member of the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), which governs many standards for image and video metadata as well as rights and provenance metadata and other standards for the global news industry, and the DAISY Consortium for accessibility.

Bill has led seminars, written articles, and spoken widely for publishing industry organizations such as SSP, W3C, NISO, STM, AUPresses, the Charleston Conference, ALPSP, BISG, IDPF, IPTC, DBW, AAP, ALA, and the Library of Congress. He is the General Editor of the Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, the author of the chapter on EPUB metadata and packaging for O’Reilly’s EPUB 3 Best Practices, and the chapter on EPUB in the book The Critical Component: Standards in Information Distribution, published by the American Library Association in collaboration with NISO. He is a member of the editorial board of the Learned Publishing journal and served as Guest Editor for its January 2019 issue devoted to accessibility. He is a columnist for Publishers Weekly.

In his consulting practice, Bill has served clients globally, including large international publishers such as Pearson, Cengage, Wolters Kluwer, Kaplan, Norton, Bloomsbury, and Sage; scholarly and STM presses and societies such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the National Academies Press, PLOS, Taylor & Francis, the JAMA Network, the American Psychological Association, the IEEE, the American College of Physicians (Annals of Internal Medicine), the Cochrane Library, Getty Publications, and the university presses of Harvard, MIT, Toronto, Duke, Edinburgh, California, Columbia, and Cambridge; aggregators such as VitalSource and others; and global publishing and library organizations such as the World Bank, the British Library, the Asian Development Bank, OCLC, and the Publishing Office of the European Union.