Please register for XUG here.

The Lenox is an environmentally friendly, historic hotel in Boston's Back Bay, in close proximity to many shops and restaurants as well as the Copley T station and Amtrak. Free wireless is available throughout the hotel. We have reserved a limited number of rooms at the Lenox for Thursday, November 10, and Friday, November 11, at a special meeting rate of $229. Please mention the eXtyles User Group Meeting when booking a room (617-536-5300 or 800-225-7676).

The Lenox reservation cutoff date is Friday, October 21. We encourage you to reserve your rooms as soon as possible, since Boston hotels fill up quickly during the fall.

Meeting Agenda

9:00 a.m.
Breakfast and Registration

9:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks, Bruce Rosenblum, Inera

9:45 a.m.
eXtyles Enhancements and New Features, Elizabeth Blake, Inera

10:45 a.m.
Coffee Break

11:00 a.m.
From the Lab: New eXtyles Developments in Progress, Nathan Day, Inera

11:30 a.m.
Breakout Session: meeting attendees discuss their ideas for new or improved eXtyles features, customer roundtables, moderated by Inera staff

12:15 p.m.
Lunch

1:45 p.m.
Breakout Session Follow-up: group discussion of roundtable results

2:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
eXtyles Customer Case Studies

2:45 p.m.
The CFA Program Curriculum and the NLM Book DTD, Cindy Maisannes, CFA Institute

To in-source the production of the CFA Program curriculum, totaling 10,000 pages annually, CFA Institute is using eXtyles and the NLM Book DTD 3.0 to produce files with a dual focus on automation and reusability.

3:10 p.m.
Coffee Break

3:40 p.m.
Power by Reference: Normalization and Citation Analysis with refXpress, MarkLogic, and Metadata Databases, Beverly Jamison, the American Psychological Association

The APA has amassed approximately 52 million references in the course of the last decade of PsycINFO production and uses eXtyles refXpress to parse, analyze, and format them into NLM-compliant XML. The identification and, in the case of journal titles, normalization of key reference elements enables several types of analysis; this talk will include brief descriptions of how it is done and some sample results.

4:05 p.m.
The Beginning of Wisdom... Is to Call Things by Their Right Name, George Garrity, NamesforLife

This case study will discuss integration of NamesforLife's DOI-based semantic resolution services with eXtyles. The NamesforLife tool is designed to provide editors and authors with direct access to expertly maintained information about biological names and other dynamic terminologies as a part of the editorial process, to automatically resolve any instances of ambiguity, and to embed DOIs directly into XML instances so that readers have direct access to rich contextual information associated with each name, without having to leave the article they are reading.

4:30 p.m.
Industry Updates: Word 2010, Word Math, JATS, and BITS, Bruce Rosenblum, Inera

5:00 p.m.
Meeting Wrap-up

5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Don't run for a flight! Drinks and hors d'ouevres hosted by Inera at City Table (semi-private dining room)

We hope to see you there!