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NEWSLETTER | February 2024 STRUCTURING DATA AND CONTENT SINCE 1981
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DCL Awarded Major Project for United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Patents, a legal instrument granting inventors exclusive rights to their creations, play a pivotal role in safeguarding intellectual property and fostering economic growth. In the United States, patents have become indispensable pillars of innovation, promoting creativity, incentivizing research and development, and contributing significantly to the nation's economic prosperity. DCL was recently awarded a contract to automatically identify relevant prior art (RPA) for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This initiative will increase patent examination quality and efficiency and will speed up the examination of patents by automating the gathering of prior art materials from multiple archives and sources, which today is a largely manual process. |
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What's DCL Doing With AI?
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Last year was certainly the year that large language models (LLMs) and generative pre-trained text (GPT) went mainstream. While AI-everything blew up last year, it’s not a new technology for DCL. DCL employs a number of AI-related technologies into our systems, services, and tools. As DCL President Mark Gross states, "Another model we’ve been perfecting is a deep learning model that analyzes a page to detect equations automatically. DCL works with many scientific publishers who have seriously complex math in their journal articles. We’ve developed a process that can identify an equation that’s been produced as an image. Then, we convert the image and structure it into MathML, allowing automated equation generation from the XML."
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Making a PDF That's Bigger Than Germany
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Inspired by an Internet claim that PDFs have a maximum size of 381 X 381 kilometers, software developer Alex Chan created a PDF that is larger than Germany. She explored the internal structure of PDF files and also asked ChatGPT a few clarifying questions. From that investigation she was able to get enough context to write some simple PDF files by hand. With her newly discovered hand-crafted PDF writing abilities she tinkered with changing the page size and ultimately ended up with a PDF that Preview claimed is larger than the entire universe—approximately 37 trillion light years square!
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The Problem With Digital Preservation: When Persistent DOIs Break
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DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) solve the common problem of keeping track of things. When a DOI is assigned, the link to the content or asset is persistent. If the original publisher goes out of business or disappears, the DOI can point to a successor publisher or to an archival source like CLOCKSS or Portico, or other preservation services. The link will still resolve and people can still access the content. But if there is no preservation service protecting the content to which a DOI is assigned, the DOI will stop working. The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication recently published an article by Martin Eve that details an alarming preservation deficit across scholarly journals.
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NISO Plus 2024 | Baltimore MD - February 13 to 14
The NISO Plus conference brings people together from across the global information community to share updates and participate in conversations about our shared challenges and opportunities. The focus is on identifying concrete next steps to improve information flow and interoperability, and help solve existing and potential future problems.
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OpenText Government Summit | Tysons Corner VA - March 5 The OpenText Government Summit is a mission-focused, full-day interactive event featuring government keynotes, customer-led breakout sessions and a Q&A panel with government and private sector experts covering generative AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, digital record-keeping, and more.[LEARN MORE]
ConVEx | Minneapolis MN - April 8 to 10
ConVEx is an immersive experience for content developers. Now in its 26th year, this event offers a wealth of ideas and information to support efforts in defining and executing a comprehensive content strategy. [LEARN MORE]
Aviation Week MRO Americas | Chicago IL - April 9 to 11 Chuck Davis, S1000D and IETM Subject Matter Expert, is speaking
MRO Americas joins the airline supply chain together to network, partner and shape the commercial aviation maintenance industry.[LEARN MORE] |
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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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Why the Future of AI Relies on Structured Content Acrolinx presents an on-demand webinar that demonstrates how to improve efficiency and reduce risk with high-quality componentized content. This session dives into the strategies and practical solutions to help technical writing teams and enterprise content owners improve editorial workflows and manage the risks associated with generative content. Industry experts discuss why enterprises should consider relational componentized content, provide recommendations enterprise content teams should follow to measure success, and more.
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Maverick Publishing Specialists support Journal Scholarly SEO
A large society publisher that recently migrated to a new platform experienced a significant loss in organic traffic compared to the performance of their previous journal sites. Following efforts to identify gaps in metadata architecture and distribution, Maverick was asked to evaluate mainstream search engine optimization to recapture organic traffic. The final product confirmed the integrity of existing practices, reaffirming the effectiveness of the metadata and discovery conventions. [READ MORE] |
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What’s a CCMS?
Our partner SiteFusion ProConsult offers publishing technology solutions and services, helping customers optimize their content creation and distribution processes through intelligent structured content management and highly configurable workflows. Their blog offers a wealth of valuable insights, whether you are a seasoned professional or a curious relative beginner to the world of component content management. For the latter, a great place to start is their blog post titled “What’s a CCMS?,” where they introduce the core concepts, key features, and transformative impact of component content management systems.
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Why STM Publishers Should Use XML
It's been 20+ years that DCL has chanted the mantra to use XML. Today a lot of the discourse is around when to implement XML in a publishing workflow but there are still publishers that do not take advantage of structured content.
Back in 2004, DCL's VP of Sales detailed the many reasons why STM publishers should implement this relatively new technology:
"It's
3pm. You've just had a meeting with your Executive
Editor. He
told you to cut the cost of production and reduce the time to
market
of your books and journals.
You now go to another meeting. This time with the VP of Marketing.
She
tells you that, in an effort to increase revenue from existing
customers, they are planning to develop dozens of separately
purchasable,
value-added features to the online products."
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