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NEWSLETTER | December 2025 STRUCTURING DATA AND CONTENT SINCE 1981
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eBooks are Older Than You Think: Vannevar Bush and the Story of the Memex |
Long before digital readers and wireless downloads, we had the visionary ideas of Vannevar Bush. It was Bush who conceived of a tool that brought instant access to every book, note, or scientific record. Bush's vision can be traced as a direct ancestor for today's ebooks and even the web itself. In DCL's latest blog, we trace how that vision evolved over decades to become the ebooks we now know. Along the way, we explore how the digital-reading revolution has roots reaching deep into the early 20th century. At DCL that arc of transformation resonates with our mission: helping organizations convert, enrich, and structure content so knowledge remains accessible, usable, and future-proof. |
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Life After eXtyles? Visit the eXtyles Transition Resource Hub |
Wiley is ending support for eXtyles as a licensed product in August of 2026, and publishers are preparing for this change as they vet new tools and solutions for editorial and production automation. DCL's Content Crystallizer solution is featured in the eXtyles transition resource hub as an alternative. Content Crystallizer is an automated solution that styles, edits, and transforms Word documents into high-quality XML through a streamlined, three-step process. BMJ Group recently announced the selection of Content Crystallizer to streamline editorial and production workflows across its flagship journal The BMJ. |
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NLM Collections: History of Medicine |
The National Library of Medicine is a remarkable collection that spans 10 centuries and millions of items across the globe. From humble beginnings in 1836 as a small Surgeon General's Reference library, it is now one of the richest repositories of medical history on Earth. The NLM preserves everything from medieval manuscripts and rare early print books to born-digital records and manuscripts. The digital collections at the NLM bring centuries-old knowledge to researchers, educators, and the curious minds around the world all accessed from your computer. This living archive demonstrates how the world's understanding of health, medicine, and society continuously evolves over time. DCL is proud to have worked on a number of historical journals in the collections. |
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DCL Bytes: Cropping Up in Other People's Queries |
DCL Bytes is part of the DCL Learning Series and features short, informative clips on technology, structured content, and more. In this short, Rich Dominelli, Senior Systems Architect at DCL, discusses how organizations should deal with users engaging with LLMs to ensure your information is not sneaking into the outside world. |
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DoW Maintenance Symposium - January 20 to 23 | Phoenix, AZ
This year’s theme—Advancing Readiness to Exploit the Logistics Deterrent Effect—will ensure the program contains relevant and hard-hitting content. Speakers and discussions will focus on changes in the DoW that are occurring at breakneck speed with an intense drive for efficiency. DCL is exhibiting. [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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Five stages of content debt: building a solid foundation for AI and automation, by Dipo Ajose-Coker Everyone wants AI to speed up content operations. Fair. But there is a hard blocker most teams skip past: content debt. In a recent conversation with Sarah O’Keefe, founder and CEO of Scriptorium, we unpacked why shortcuts, such as copying old content forward without verifying accuracy, outdated source material, and missing structure, like untagged, unclassified content, keep AI from delivering real business value. The punchline is simple. Automation works only when your inputs are consistent, accurate, and machine-readable. If they are not, AI turns small cracks into big risks.
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The five stages of content debt: podcast edition!
Your organization’s content debt costs more than you think. In this podcast, host Sarah O’Keefe and guest Dipo Ajose-Coker, Senior Product Marketing Manager with RWS, unpack the five stages of content debt from denial to action. Sarah and Dipo share how to navigate each stage to position your content—and your AI—for accuracy, scalability, and global growth.
[LISTEN NOW] |
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DCL Circa 1997 and Wizzy the Owl Let's travel back to 1997. DCL had already in the business of conversion for 16 years. The Internet was just starting and people were hearing acronyms like HTML and SGML. At DCL, one programmer was inspired to create the "world's first cartoon series about SGML." Today, I might wager that it was the world's ONLY cartoon series about SGML! [READ MORE] |
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