Threepress Consulting Inc. is a technology company servicing the publishing and educational industries.

Liza Daly, President

Threepress owner Liza Daly has a long history of successful work in the web and publishing industries. She was the lead developer on major online products for Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, Rosen Publishing, and O'Reilly Media. She has significant experience in interactive development for public radio and television.

Keith Fahlgren

Keith Fahlgren is a Publishing Technology Consultant with Threepress. He specializes in helping publishers develop systems to create, maintain, enhance, and reuse written content. His contributions to the digital publishing ecosystem range from developing the open-source DocBook-XSL ePub Stylesheets to encouraging the adoption of the IDPF ePub standard to launching a system for collaborative manuscript development and kickstarting the OPDS Catalog specification process as part of the BookServer project. Keith was formerly at O'Reilly Media.

Consulting team

Threepress employs digital publishing experts to consult on individual projects or develop software tools. We have expertise in DocBook, TEI, ePub, DITA, InDesign, XSLT, DSpace, and DAISY.

Writing

Blogs	Professional articles	Books
Liza is a contributor to O'Reilly Media's Tools of Change publishing blog, focusing on document formats, ebooks, and academic publishing. Read posts. She has also blogged for TeleRead on subjects such as applying open source techniques to publishing. Official Threepress.org blog	IBM DeveloperWorks article and tutorials: Building a digital book with ePub Doing more with the Django admin Better Django models High-performance XML parsing in Python NISO Information Standards Quarterly article on Bookworm, published December 2008	In March of 2007, O'Reilly published her ebook Next-Generation Web Frameworks in Python, which covered three development platforms in Python including Django, which powers Bookworm. Liza is also a regular technical editor for O'Reilly and has worked on several CSS and Python books, including CSS: The Definitive Guide, Python for Linux System Administrators and SQLAlchemy.

Speaking

Threepress provides custom professional development and is frequently representated at publishing and technical conferences. See our Speaking page for archived presentations and details.

Advocacy

Liza and Keith are active in the open source technology community. Liza was on the advisory board for the Web 2.0 Expo NYC conference in 2008 and 2009, and is also on the board for O'Reilly's digital publishing conference, Tools of Change for 2009 and 2010.

Keith developed the open-source DocBook-XSL ePub Stylesheets. Both are core members of the OPDS Catalog specification group.

Threepress is a member of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), including the EPUB Working Group.

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