The Publications Committee is seeking volunteers to develop an electronic template for providing production-ready article files. The template would allow authors to create their accepted manuscripts in XML, the language used by AGU to produce online journals. If authors could use this template to produce XML files according to AGU specifications, in much the same way as they previously provided camera-ready copy, and the costs of article production could correspondingly be lowered, the savings could be passed on to authors. The Information Technology Committee will be advising the Publications Committee and staff throughout the experiment. Participants will use the AGU article DTD, which provides a detailed prescription for tagging all elements of a journal article. The challenge is to come up with a workable template that uses open source code to produce valid content files. The XML file is critical because it serves as the version of record of the article, as well as the underlying source for generating all representations of it; the XML also enables AGU to offer additional features that go beyond the printed page.