White Room Electronic Publishing

Consultancy

White Room undertakes consultancies in information management and electronic publishing, specialising in the commercial exploitation of content and product development. Tom Denison, the principal consultant, has over twenty years experience in the information industry and has worked closely with a number of libraries, information services and publishers at both the strategic level and to publish a range of database, text-based and mixed text/multimedia applications.

White Room is also heavily involved in education and the development of subjects relating to electronic publishing and multimedia at the tertiary level.

We offer a range of consultancy services which manage people and processes to achieve a series of high quality, targeted outcomes - on time and within budget.

Consultancies are undertaken in the areas of:

library automation,
knowledge management,
the development of information infrastructure eg reviews of library services,
the development of online services,
electronic publishing,
the migration of information resources to the Internet, and
community informatics.

We can also assess strategic options and business models for eBusiness, and support them with a full spectrum of design and development services.

We also undertake work in the areas of project management, product development and production work.

Our strengths are in the areas of understanding of the commercial environment for information and the skills which we can bring to bear.

In particular we understand the value of information

how best to realise that value
how best to publish information and in what format
how best to organise information for ease of use
how best to organise information for ease of maintenance

White Room recognises that it cannot provide the full gamut of skills, and complements its own skills base through a range of strategic alliances with selected partners. These enable us to offer our clients access to excellence in areas we do not ourselves undertake and a range of services we could not provide alone. They also ensure efficiencies in the development of business solutions.

Previous clients have included:

Australian Council for Education Research
Centre for Community Networking Research
Curriculum Corporation
East Meets West, Vietnam
EPICENTRE Research Project
Knox City Libraries
Monash University Library
Monash University, School of Information Management and Systems
National Office for the Information Economy
Records Continuum Research Group
RMIT Publishing
RMIT Vietnam
Telstra
Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine