Maarten van Vulpen

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Maarten van Vulpen presenting at the Innovation stage at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025

Structured content and AI: get your publications out better and faster

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Last Thursday at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, Maarten van Vulpen presented on the Innovation Stage about how structured content and AI together can transform the way publishers create, manage, and distribute content. This well-received talk built on last year’s presentation, Feeding AI Models with Structured Content: The Power of XML ,but this time went further, showing […]

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From Word to the web: How IEC authors are embracing Online Standards Development

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Since early this year, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has been using its new Online Standards Development (OSD) platform, a fully web-based environment for drafting and reviewing international standards. Built around structured content authoring, OSD integrates Fonto as its core XML editor, enabling technical experts from around the world to collaborate on standards in a

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Fonto receives Excellence Partner Award from Ebcont

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We are proud to announce that Fonto has been awarded the Excellence Partner Award by Ebcont. This recognition underlines the strength of our collaboration and the trust we’ve built working together on multiple global projects. It’s also an encouraging sign of what lies ahead: this is just the beginning. A growing partnership Ebcont and Fonto

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Fonto 8.14: More accessible, smarter, and ready for complex workflows

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With Fonto 8.14, we’re continuing to refine the editing and review experience for every user, from accessibility improvements that make Fonto easier to use with assistive technologies, to smarter APIs, more powerful metadata, and performance tuning across the board. This release is all about flexibility, control, and efficiency, helping teams handle complex content at scale

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Beyond reuse: smarter embedding of information with structured content 

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When people think of structured content authoring, their minds often go straight to reuse. Reuse of text fragments across documents, manuals, or platforms is a clear and measurable benefit. It reduces duplication, streamlines updates, and ensures consistency. But reuse is just the tip of the iceberg.  In industries like standardization, automotive, pharma and aviation, forward-looking

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Fonto 8.13: Hello, World – Meet Fonto Output 

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Fonto 8.13 is here, and it’s a big one. This release introduces the public beta of Fonto Output, a long-awaited addition to the Fonto suite that brings high-quality document generation to your structured content workflows. Alongside this, we’ve delivered meaningful improvements across the board—from usability upgrades in Fonto Editor to better translation and metadata handling

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AI is here to stay – and structured content is key to making it work

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Last week, I attended the 47th annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) in Baltimore. As always, it was a great opportunity to reconnect with familiar faces, meet new voices in the field, and get a sense of where scholarly publishing is heading. One thing became abundantly clear across the three days: AI

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Sven Roosen: a gap year full of lessons and motivation

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After an impressive 2024 that firmly placed him among the world’s elite, decathlete Sven Roosen had to hit pause this year. A persistent injury disrupted his plans following the Olympics. Yet, his outlook remains optimistic and focused. “There’s light at the end of the tunnel,” he says. “And that feels good.” Taking a break in

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From chaos to clarity: why structured content is the key to responsible AI in scholarly publishing

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The past year has seen an explosion of interest in generative AI across scholarly publishing. Editorial teams, product leads, and technology partners are racing to test AI-driven tools for peer review, metadata enrichment, classification, and chatbots. But with this innovation has come fragmentation: disconnected pilots, brittle scripts, and inconsistent results. In his recent talk at

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We’ve moved! Welcome to our new office at The Den in Rijswijk

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After more than a decade at Polakweg, we’re excited to share that Fonto has a new home! As of this month, our team has settled into a brand-new office on the second floor of Lange Kleiweg 40—also known as The Den—in Rijswijk. We now share this space with our RWS colleagues from Amsterdam, bringing together

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