A situation is unfolding inside AI initiatives at many organizations. Teams invest in AI models, platforms, and workflows and still get outputs they can't trust. The culprit isn't the AI model itself. Rather, it's the content going in.

Generative AI systems work best when the information they consume is organized, explicit, and precise. Structured content formats like XML and JSON provide exactly that – content that is machine‑readable, semantically rich, and consistently organized. Document processing is not simply one problem; rather, it comprises three components that must be considered.

DCL and Flatirons help aerospace and defense organizations modernize technical publications and unlock the full value of structured content.

Whether you’re developing AI-driven knowledge tools or simply want to make your organization’s content AI ready, learn how content structure can focus an AI’s attention, improve response quality, and ensure your most valuable information doesn’t get lost in the noise.

As AI becomes increasingly integrated into all industries, organizations are striving to ensure that the insights generated by AI systems are reliable, accurate, and grounded in truth. Achieving trustworthy AI requires not only robust algorithms but also careful attention to the quality and structure of the information fed into them.

BMJ Group has long been a leader in medical publishing, known for rigorous peer review, global reach, and trusted reputation built on exceptional publishing expertise. The BMJ is ranked among the top medical journals globally and is valued for its editorial integrity and innovation. DCL recently announced that The BMJ has implemented Content Crystallizer , a solution designed to transform manuscripts from Word documents into structured XML through a configurable, automate

It was 2007. The iPhone had just been released, Facebook was still mostly for college students, and the term “cloud computing” was just starting to gain traction. At Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), we decided to have a little fun with a serious purpose: an internal contest to come up with a new company tagline. Our team members scribbled ideas on notepads, dropped slips into a box, and debated the merits of each over coffee. The winning entry came from Nir Dayan and the t

Recently Dipo Ajose-Coker, RWS; Marianne Calilhanna, DCL; and Sarah O'Keefe, Scriptorium discussed how to future-proof content, teams, and tech stack by effectively leveraging AI.

If data had weight, 35.3 GB of data would crush you. This amount of data would literally reach the sky.

But the truth is structured content helps technical communicators improve the way content gets developed, managed, and presented.

RAG is a technique that allows LLMs to incorporate external information from a corpus of documents during the text generation process.

"Conversion" is our middle name but Data Conversion Laboratory provides many services related to content structure.

LavaCon is an industry event for any organization involved with creating, producing, and distributing content. That means YOU!

Mark Gross reflects on a company milestone—40 years in the business and the transformative changes DCL has been a part of.

Guest blog post by Val Swisher, CEO, Content Rules An “output type” is the assembly of content that you deliver to customers. In the...

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine offers a refreshing step back in time. The archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. To date there are 477 billion web pages saved! I find it thrilling to look back in order to see how far we've come. I took the machine all the way back to 1997---gas was $1.22 a gallon in the US and £2.70 in the UK, Great Britain handed back Hong Kong to China, we said goodbye to Princess Diana, and wel

DITA is intended to maximize content re-use and single-source content creation, thus simplifying content maintenance.

XML is useful across many industries. Here's a quick primer on why converting to XML is beneficial for your organization

Creating or aggregating content and actually getting readers to see it are two sides of the same coin.

The audiobook publishing market continues to experience massive growth. As we get ready for a new decade the outlook remains bright for...