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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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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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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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Why consider an OEM XML editor instead of building one yourself? 

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In today’s fast-paced business environment, product managers and decision-makers face tough choices when designing end-to-end solutions for structured content management. One such critical decision revolves around whether to build an XML editor from scratch or integrate a ready-made OEM solution. At Fonto, we believe the advantages of embedding an OEM XML editor far outweigh the

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Feeding AI models with structured content: the power of XML 

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Yesterday, at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, I had the pleasure of delivering a presentation titled “Revolutionizing Publishing with AI and Structured Content: Unlocking the Power of XML.” During this talk, I explored how structured content serves as the essential foundation for feeding AI models, and why the old adage “garbage in, garbage out” is particularly true

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Understanding structured content: definition and benefits

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In today’s digital age, the way we manage and utilize information has evolved dramatically. Conventionally, document content is unstructured, with text, figures, and tables that authors can freely arrange in the way they want to. By structuring content, we can shift from a document-based to a content and data-based approach. But what exactly is structured

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Fonto Why & How: How do I make an operation that opens a modal enabled in the correct situation?!

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In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a developer reached out! They have a modal that manages a prolog: it can either insert a new prolog, or it can edit one.

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