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NEWSLETTER | September 2024 STRUCTURING DATA AND CONTENT SINCE 1981
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What do Structured Content and Tennis Have in Common?
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When considering a move to structured content, some technical writers are concerened that enforcing content structure also means enforcing constructs that limit creativity and freedom in product documentation. But the truth is structured content helps technical communicators improve the way content gets developed, managed, and presented. Structured content is also a great enabler to work and develop content in a collaborative way. But what does structured content have to do with tennis?
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Computer Vision is Revolutionizing Malaria Control
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Computer Vision (CV) is a type of artificial intelligence that enables computers to derive information from images, videos, and other inputs. DCL employs CV in a number of ways when transforming content into structured XML or enriching metadata. For decades, CV has been employed across industries—autonomous vehicles, medical diagnostics, mobile translation, and more. Bill Gates recently shared how the Gates Foundation is using CV to identify mosquitoes carrying malaria. VectorCam is a groundbreaking app that uses computer vision to identify mosquito species in seconds. This is not only a technical feat but also a lifesaving tool bringing the eradication of a deadly disease closer to reality. |
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What Publishers Need to Know Now About the European Accessibility Act
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The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is about making sure accessible products and services are easier to buy and use across the EU. This is great news for accessibility but it also means there are new rules and deadlines that publishers need to consider. June 2025 is the deadline to ensure frontlist titles are compliant. The EAA should be top of mind for any book publishers (although the EAA is about more than just books) who sell their books in the EU or the UK. While the UK is not in the EU, they have decided to align with the EAA.
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Think You Know DCL? Technology That Might Surprise You: Web Scraping
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While "conversion" is Data Conversion Laboratory's (DCL) middle name, we offer much more than one-off transactional conversions from PDFs to XML (or InDesign, Framemaker, Word, HTML, etc.). DCL employs some serious technology wizards who are skilled at mining, extracting, structuring, enriching, and well... really manipulating content and data in almost any way you can imagine. Read more to learn some details on technology that might be helpful in your organization. |
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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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Unlocking Aftermarket Revenue Through Improved Technical Documentation
Surprisingly, even some of the largest organisations still rely on outdated technology to create, manage, and maintain their technical documentation for products and assets. We’re talking about large, complex, and antiquated documentation systems that demand constant review and updates to ensure data, drawings, and instructions remain relevant and accurate. Plus, there’s the extensive information that needs to be reviewed, updated, archived, or even deleted. But why do so many companies treat technical documentation as an afterthought?
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European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Nuances Before Time Runs Out
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is a directive of the European Parliament and the Council of the EU to align laws and rules related to accessible services and products. The EAA strongly impacts publishers, and understanding the requirements and deadlines is critical. Join this DCL Lunch & Learn webinar on October 9th with everyone’s favorite accessibility expert, Bill Kasdorf! He and DCL president Mark Gross will discuss country-specific understandings and decrees (or lack thereof), what the EAA's 2025 and 2030 deadlines entail, and some of the steps you can take now with minimal disruption to your publishing workflows.
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How to Publish Faster With Typefi Automation
Typefi is one of the fastest automated publishing engines in the world. It uses Adobe InDesign to compose flawless outputs at speeds up to 1000 pages per hour, and it can easily import content from XML, Word, Excel, and your CMS. Wondering how it works? Then don’t miss Typefi's webinar on September 24th—the Typefi team will show you exactly how it works in a live demo and answer any questions you have.
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Learning From Mistakes: What Happens When Content Management Projects Fail?
Case studies are a great way to learn how an organization effectively implemented new technologies and workflows. Everyone cheers a great success story. But what about the projects where things go amiss and a project is seriously threatened with defunding? What can we learn from content management disasters? This trip in the Wayback Machine travels to a 2016 DCL Learning Series in which failing content management projects are discussed. With appropriate intervention sometimes an at-risk project can be turned around.
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