Biography
Bill Kasdorf is Principal of Kasdorf & Associates, LLC, a publishing technology consultancy focusing on editorial and production workflows and technologies, standards and best practices, and accessibility testing and guidance. A founding partner of Publishing Technology Partners, Bill is Past President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and a recipient of SSP’s Distinguished Service Award, the magazine industry’s Luminaire Award, BISG’s Industry Champion Award, and NISO’s Cunningham Award. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Publishing@W3C activity and is an active member of SSP, NISO, BISG, IPTC, and the DAISY Consortium.
Bill has led seminars, written articles, and spoken widely for publishing industry organizations and events such as SSP, the Charleston Conference, STM, AUPresses, ALPSP, BISG, and NISO Plus. He is the General Editor of the Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, a member of the editorial board of Learned Publishing, and is a columnist for Publishers Weekly.
Bill has served diverse clients 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 university presses such as Harvard, MIT, Toronto, Edinburgh, California, Columbia, and Cambridge; 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. Bill is also the initiator and facilitator of The Rosenblum Award for Scholarly Publishing Impact
