Andrew Joseph is the Digital Publisher at Wits University Press. His publishing experience has largely been in academic and reference publications, for most major European and US academic publishers – books, journals and digital products, archives, production workflows and business development. Andrew is closely involved with standards development and implementation especially for metadata, identifiers and Open Access. Andrew designed and is establishing African Scholarship Online, an Africa-wide university press initiative funded by the National Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences. He serves on several industry boards and committees, and is a regular speaker at key publishing events.