I spent thirty years at the centre of how scientific publishing became digital and
machine-readable — the content standards, the data models, the infrastructure.
This site is where I keep the things worth preserving from that time.
Blog
Posts on content, data, and standards
Monthly editorials adapted for an external audience.
On XML, knowledge graphs, content modelling, and the history of making science
machine-readable. 19 posts published so far.
Talks
Recorded presentations
Keynote at TUG 2025 in Trivandrum: thirty years of
lessons in content architecture, with an AI-generated podcast discussion.
About
Who this is
Rob Schrauwen is Elsevier's former Chief Content Architect.