What is Tizra?
At Tizra we're working on web-enabled tools to help publishers control and profit from online content. Our services will let publishers precisely manage the presentation, packaging, pricing, and license terms for bundled, unbundled, and rebundled products.
Publishers normally face a clear choice between a powerful custom online presence with expensive fees, large in-house investment, and need for regular technical intervention, or cookie-cutter sites with limited tailoring ability. We are taking our decades of experience building custom sites and creating a third option: a publisher-controlled standard product that can be managed directly by the marketing and editorial staff best positioned to define products and content for online sale and distribution.
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Who is Tizra?
Dr. David G. Durand
David has been working with markup languages and hypertext since 1984, contributing to standards including XML, XLink, WebDAV, and TEI. With Steven DeRose he is co-author of Making Hypermedia Work: A User's Guide to HyTime. He has worked on projects for West, McGraw-Hill, the European Molecular Biology Organization (E-BioSci, ORIEL), IBM, and Sun, among others. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Boston University, and is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University.
Abe Dane
Abe has been working in publishing and e-commerce for the past 20 years, at Popular Mechanics, Hearst New Media, MIT, and Ingenta. He has worked on projects for organizations including Oxford University Press, Scientific American, Good Housekeeping, OpenCourseWare, and Gale. In 1993 he was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT. In 1997, he founded his own company, which developed an e-commerce system sold to Eastman Kodak. At Ingenta, he headed design, development and delivery of information commerce and custom website software for professional and scholarly publishers.
Francisco Assis Rosa
Francisco is an active open source contributor, with over fourteen years of experience in software development, analysis and architecture. Before Tizra, Francisco worked at Ingenta as manager of US development where he and his group were responsible for the delivery of several multi-million dollar projects. He is author of several papers on software design patterns. Project clients have included McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press, the World Bank, and the British Standards Institute. He previously worked at LEMAC CDC, INESC, Hibbitt Karlsson & Sorensen. He received his Masters degree in Computer Science at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon.
