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Editorial Board Members

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Don Day is Chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, project lead for the DITA Open Toolkit, is IBM's Lead DITA Architect, and has represented IBM on the W3C XSL and CSS Working Groups. See Don's Daylights blog!

Bruce Esrig is a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. As an Information Architect at Lucent Technologies, he is focusing on practical applications of formal methods to the design and delivery of documentation and training. He has worked in a variety of technical and communications roles in natural language processing, computing and telecommunications.

JoAnn Hackos is co-chair of the OASIS DITA Editorial and founding member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. She is president of Comtech Services, Inc. and executive director of The Center for Information-Development Management. She has been instrumental in promoting DITA with the information-development community worldwide.

Jen Linton is a Senior Consultant at Comtech Services, Inc. She assists companies in their information design, stylesheet design, DITA and XML implementations, content management implementation, process efficiency, and change management needs. She also teaches the XML for Writers and DITA:Getting Started workshops.

Scott Prentice is the President of Leximation, Inc., and focuses on providing tools and solutions for print and online publishing.

Michael Priestley is co-editor of the DITA Specification, and IBM's representative on the DITA Technical Committee. He is one of DITA's original architects at IBM, and is an experienced information architect and XML architect . He is currently coordinating taxonomy initiatives across several IBM communities. You can read his blog at http://dita.xml.org/blog/25

Jerry Silver is Director of Product Management for XMetaL, a Justsystems Company.  He has over 20 years of IT development, management, and marketing experience, specializing in content management, collaboration, database and application modeling and design, application architectures, XML, and Web technologies.

Kay Ethier is Senior Trainer and Consultant for Bright Path Solutions.  Her teaching and consulting experience includes XML and related technologies, DITA, structured authoring, content management, FrameMaker, and Structured FrameMaker. She has authored several books on publishing technologies (XML Weekend Crash Course, XML and FrameMaker, Advanced FrameMaker, XML Problem-Design-Solution), as well as a Korean martial arts book.

Robin Cover is Editor of the Cover Pages web site and XML.org Daily Newslink. References for DITA are included within the Cover Pages. He also advises the OASIS Technical Services Department on web architecture issues.