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Corbas Consulting Ltd was established in 2001 by Nic Gibson and Emily Gibson and has grown to accommodate a wide range of digital publishing consultancy and training services. Corbas’s distinctive strengths lie in its experience of a broad range of content and delivery types, its ability to spot technological trends, and in its commitment to being at the forefront of digital publishing.

Clients have called us the ‘interdisciplinary bridge’ between publishing and technology, translating the language of publishing into the manifestation of technology. Our extensive network of corporate and freelance consultants allow us to draw upon a wide expertise where necessary.

We provide:

• Digital publishing consultancy

• Training and workshops

• Project management and workflow rationalisation

• Digital pre-press and eBook documentation and specification

• XML consultancy

• EPUB (and Kindle) consultancy

Corbas Consulting Ltd provides digital publishing consultancy and training to publishers and professional organisations who want to achieve best practices, cost savings, efficient workflow and quality digital output.

About the directors

Emily Gibson, BA (hons), MA, Cert. Pub., Cert. IT (Open) is a director of Corbas Consulting Ltd, with fifteen years’ publishing experience, mostly in editorial, print and digital production. In addition to daily hands-on practice with XML, ePub and PDF QA, she has authored and built extensive specifications and guidelines, encompassing copyediting, XML, and production and editorial processes, for internal staff, freelancers and overseas vendors.

She is primarily focused on analysing and rationalising workflows and concepts (such as XML), and in identifying, describing and disseminating best practice. Emily is also a tutor for the Publishing Training Centre and runs digital publishing workshops and courses for editorial and production staff.

Nic Gibson has over twenty years' experience as a developer, consultant and trainer. He specialises in XML content generally in a document publishing context.

Nic's interests and experience include OPS/EPUB eBook consultancy; XML consultancy; data/content modelling and analysis and schema authoring. Nic is a member of OASIS and sits on the DocBook Publishers Technical Sub-Committee. In addition to his consulting and extensive teaching work, Nic is also an instructor for Learning Tree International and a tutor for the Publishing Training Centre.

Recent clients include:

• Bloomsbury

• Penguin Books

• Pearson International
  

• Oxford University Press
  

• Learning Tree International
  

• Publishing Training Centre

• Learning Matters

• The Educational Company of Ireland
  

• Cengage Learning EMEA
  

• Hachette

• Sweet & Maxwell

• Palimpsest Book Production Ltd

Nic Gibson, from Corbas Consulting: opening keynote speech on publishing revolutions and how these could affect indexers http://c.orb.as/0025

Focus Group for National Occupational Standards for Publishing
13 September 2011, Skillset Offices, London

Emily Gibson will, as an industry consultant, be attending the focus group run by Skillset to review and update the National Occupational Standards for Publishing

XML Summer School 

"Intro­du­cing pub­lish­ers to XML and XML to pub­lish­ers"

18-23 Septem­ber 2011, Oxford Uni­ver­sity

Corbas Consulting will be attending for the week and will be available to further discuss their case studies discussed in the seminar "Intro­du­cing pub­lish­ers to XML and XML to pub­lish­ers" XMLSS