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DCL in the News
Vice Magazine
Librarians Are Finding Thousands Of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law
“It is the history of American creativity. I think that the data should be usable not just by us, by the libraries, but by everyone. I think it belongs to the people and is the people’s data.”
- Greg Cram, New York Public Library
Information Today
Hallucinate, Confabulate, Obfuscate: The State of Artificial Intelligence Today
If there were an award for webinar titles, Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) and its Oct. 12 program, “Hallucinate, Confabulate, Obfuscate: The Perils of Generative AI Going Rogue,” would surely be in the running.
The New York Times
Ending the Pain of Data Transfers
''The most expensive part of switching to a new generation, more than the hardware and software, is in converting the documents and data that they have accumulated over the years,'' said Mark Gross, president of Data Conversion Laboratories. That company was one of the first to identify the need for data conversion, which is now a multibillion-dollar industry.
Published Research
Balisage 2023
Pulling All Production Processes Together with an XML-First System
Creating a seamless centralized workflow that starts with XML has long been the siren song of scholarly journal production workflows. Yet the definition of “start” is the critical piece in this publishing puzzle. Innovating article production truly means starting with XML as soon as a manuscript is accepted after peer review.
JATS Con 2022
Identifying XML Issues That Impact Content Interchange
Publishers’ content collections are complex, often spanning decades, during which time standards have evolved. Version 1.0 of the Journal Publishing Tag Set (aka NLM DTD) was released in February 2003. Thus, content that used the NLM DTD is significantly different from the current specification—NISO JATS Version 1.3.
JATS Con 2021
Leaping the Field: Jumping From PDF to NISO STS
In 2017, AWWA embarked on an initiative to transform its publishing workflow by taking the corpus of current and historical Standards and Manuals and converting the content stored in PDF documents into standardized XML formats: NISO STS and BITS.
White Papers
Keywords
content structure, semantic enrichment, digital transformation, New York Public Library, American Water Works Association
Keywords
NLM, NLM conversion, agile development, quality assurance, Optica Publishing Group, XML conversion services
Keywords
data harvesting, web crawling, DCL Data Harvester, XML feeds, automation
Keywords
image-based PDFs, automated transformation, United States Patent and Trademark Office, content structure, XML feeds
