About Mark Baker

Mark Baker is President of Analecta Communications Inc., a communication consulting firm in Ottawa, Canada. His former positions include Manager of Information Engineering methods at Nortel and Director of Communications for OmniMark Technologies (now Stilo). Mark has written and spoken extensively on single sourcing and markup. He is co-author of HTML Unleashed, 2nd Edition and author of Internet Programming with OmniMark. He is currently writing a book on refactoring content.

Mark was named one of the Twenty Leaders to Watch in 2004 by CMS Watch.

Books

Internet Programming with OmniMark, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000

HTML 4 Unleashed, 2ed., Sams, 1998 (Co-author with Rick Darnell, et. al., wrote section on XML)

Selected articles

"What makes a publishing system tip", Best Practices, February 2004, Center for Information Development Management.

"Structured Content: What's in it for Writers?", CMS Watch

"Single Sourcing Across Product Versions", Best Practices, Center for Information Development Management.

"What Does Your CMS Call this Guy" (The role of names in content management), CMS Watch, January 2002

"Designing XML Tagging Languages", XML Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 8, August 2001

"Hierarchy Based Parsing", XML Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 7, December 2000

"XML Encoding, a Streaming Approach", XML Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 6, November 2000

"Building XML Middleware Using OmniMark", XML Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 4, August 2000

"Creating Database Update Tools", Web Techniques, Vol. 2, Issue 7, July 1997

"Managing Browser Differences: Working Around Differences in Navigator's and Explorer's Handling of CGI Scripts", Web Techniques, Vol. 2, Issue 2, February 1997

Selected speaking engagements

"What make a Publishing System Tip?", Best Practices 2003

"Reuse is not Single Sourcing", Content Management Strategies 2003

"Managing the Impact of Change", Content Management, Strategies for Single Sourcing

"The Role of Names in Content Management", XML2001, December 2001

"All Markup is Link Markup", XMLWorld 2001, November 2001

"The Next Challenge: Up-translation", XMLEdge 2001, October 2001

"Can XML Succeed Where SGML Failed?", Documation 2000, November 2000

"OmniMark Today and Tomorrow", Roadshow: Paris, Utrecht, Amsterdam, San Jose, Denver, Detroit, Washington, Rochester, October-November 2000

"XML Executive Overview", XTech, February 2000

"Programming XML to WinHelp Conversions", WinWriters Online Help Conference, March 2000

"Single Sourcing", STC (Society for Technical Communication) Eastern Ontario Chapter, October 1999

"Single Sourcing with XML", Single Source Summit, October 1999

"Designing an Information Set for Single Sourcing" (1 day workshop), Society for Technical Communication 46th Annual Conference, May 1999

"Single Sourcing WinHelp", STC Eastern Ontario Chapter, January 1999

"Using Server Side XML to Build Individualized Web Pages," IPCC '98 (International Professional Communicators Conference), September 1998

"From Procedure to Process: Corporate Communications Online", 11th Corporate Communications Conference, May 1998

"Designing Microdocument Architecture Systems", OmniMark User's Group Conference, April 98

"Information, Information Products, and XML", Publish 98, March 1998

"From Document Design to Information Design", SIGDOC 97, October 1997

"The Document is Dead", IPCC '96, October 1996

"Component Based Information Development", SGML 95, December 1995