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NEWSLETTER | July 2023 STRUCTURING DATA AND CONTENT SINCE 1981
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Not Your Mother's Migration: Lessons From Migrating More Than 47 GB of Technical XML
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About 50,000 trees made into paper would be needed to print out a terabyte of data—250 million pages printed both sides, over 10 miles high. AIP Publishing had 1.7 terabytes of assets that needed to be cross-checked against its 47.3 gigabytes of journal XML for its content migration to the Silverchair Platform. Even with recent strides in technology, moving decades of content onto a new platform is a major undertaking. Yet in less than one year, DCL converted and structured AIP Publishing's entire content collection for a frictionless flow into the Silverchair Platform.
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Print Never Goes Out of Style
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The World Book Encyclopedia is the only general reference encyclopedia still published in print. The World Book Encyclopedia 2023 provides authoritative content on almost every topic to learners of all ages, from school-age readers (9-18) to adults. It was first published in 1917, and it has released a new edition almost every year since 1925. Amazingly (and thankfully), people still purchase print. Here's one person's take on why the updated encyclopedia is his antidote to the information apocalypse. Bonus: the encyclopedia is also currently on sale.
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ESILAB (DCL's Affiliate Company) Ranks as One of the Top eDiscovery Litigation Support Providers
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Chambers and Partners, the world's leading legal rankings and insights intelligence, company recently recognized ESILAB as one of the top eDiscovery Litigation Support Providers in the $5.49 billion United States eDiscovery Market in its 2023 Litigation Support Guide. The Guide is produced as a result of hundreds of thorough interviews conducted by Chambers researchers with senior market expertise (both practitioners and purchasers of litigation support services) worldwide.
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Learn DITA at Your Own Pace
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LearningDITA is a free resource created by DCL's partner Scriptorium as a hub for DITA and content strategy training. It provides free e-learning for individuals who want to explore DITA, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. This flexible training was designed so you can work through the course content on your own schedule. Lessons include exercises, links to additional resources and videos, and quizzes to test your knowledge. Courses cover topics from the basics of DITA to advanced reuse.
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CONFERENCE
Balisage: The Markup Conference | 31 July to 4 August Mark Gross and Charles O'Connor from Aries will present "Pulling All Production Processes Together With an XML-First System"
Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information.
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WEBINAR
Illuminate the Blind Spots in Your Content Strategy With Harmonizer | 26 July | 12:00 pm EDT Because most organizations want to streamline the content management process, erasing the concern of managing redundant content is mission-critical. However, with large document collections finding duplicative content or nearly duplicative content is extremely challenging. Harmonizer, by Data Conversion Laboratory, is a software application that analyzes document collections using natural language processing to identify redundant content. Harmonizer simultaneously analyzes across any file format – XML, HTML, SGML, Word, Framemaker, InDesign, PDF, and others – and is invaluable when planning a content reuse strategy or moving content to a new platform.
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WEBINAR
It’s Really Time to Get Serious About Accessibility | 16 August | 12:00 pm EDT Making content accessible for people with visual and cognitive impairments has long been a topic of discussion as well as a service provided by DCL. Yet here we are in 2023 and a recent statistic from the Allen Institute states that “only about 2.4% of published scientific research papers are fully accessible.” Why is this? Join DCL President Mark Gross and the scholarly publishing industry’s biggest proponent of accessibility, Bill Kasdorf, as they discuss some of the trends they are seeing across the industry.
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CONFERENCE
AIA S1000D User Forum | 11 to 14 September The premier event to learn about latest developments in information exchange in aerospace to support engineering, maintenance, materiel and flight operations. The forum drives interoperability & digital transformation through the implementation of the suite of S-Series IPS-Specifications and S1000D. [REGISTER NOW] |
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CONFERENCE
Silverchair's Platform Strategies | 27 September DCL is a sponsor
Platform Strategies explores the technologies and strategies that support professional and scholarly knowledge. After a 3-year hiatus the popular in-person event returns with renewed energy and excitement to tackle the technology challenges facing the scholarly publishing industry.
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DCL partners with many global organizations that complement our services and offer a complete workflow solution to our customers. Following are some recent highlights from DCL's Partnership Laboratory. |
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A New and Improved SVG Markup for DITA and DocBook Comparison DeltaXML have been adding new features to their XML Compare product, the latest of which involves SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) image comparison . By comparing the XML structure of the SVG, this feature employs a customisable output pipeline to apply XSLT transformations that analyse identified changes and convert them into a visual representation. This process effectively highlights the specific portions of the images that have been changed. The SVG XML format has made its way into many other XML grammars such as DITA and DocBook. |
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Content Transformation, Conversion And Migration
These three concepts are often confused because they are related processes that involve changing digital content in some way. While all of these processes are involved in managing digital content, each serves a distinct purpose and involves different techniques and tools. Watch this webinar on demand, brought to you by Heretto along with The Content Wrangler and Data Conversion Laboratory, and you'll leave with a solid understanding of the differences in the three terms and be prepared to put this knowledge to work. [VIEW WEBINAR] |
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Platform Migration: A Model Case Study for Societies
The American Association of Immunologists moved more than 100 years of journal content from Highwire Press to the Silverchair platform following a well-organized and orchestrated plan that involved a network of third-party providers working with a small in-house team and a professional project manager. Maverick was selected to provide ongoing project management support of the migration and, in that capacity, coordinated the work of the other stakeholders to ensure it progressed on schedule and with no disruption to service.
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When Word-to-XML Conversions Get Nasty
Mike Gross, CTO at DCL, revealed the five ways conversion engines can break when converting MSWord documents to XML. This article was first published in CMSWatch Magazine in September 2005.
In this article, Mike looks at some particularly "nasty" examples (derived from real-world samples) of the types of Word constructs he encountered on a regular basis that are difficult to convert. He uses Word screenshots to display how the documents are formatted. The examples came from Word 2000, but you can expect to see the same types of issues in other versions of Word....even today 18 years later!
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