
DCL Learning Series
On-Demand Webinars
The DCL Learning Series covers topics that relate to content and data conversion with an instructional twist. DCL speaks with industry experts and brings meaningful presentations and conversations directly to your screen. Topics include metadata, DITA, Section 508 and accessibility, XML standards, and much more.
Our webinar calendar is constantly updated. Enjoy browsing through our recorded webinars below.
Platform Strategies - Not Your Mother’s Migration: Lessons from Migrating More than 47GB of Technical XML
Join Silverchair, AIP Publishing, and Data Conversion Laboratory as we discuss the details around the largest platform migration in Silverchair’s history. Hear from collaborators about the keys to their success, lessons learned, and tips for others looking to migrate or update their complex content.
PubMed, PubMed Central – Ask the Experts
DCL specializes in the conversion and submission of documents to PubMed Central. Join Devorah Ashlem and David Turner as they discuss the intricacies of the XML specification. We invite you to send questions regarding PubMed, PubMed Central, Medline, conversion to proper XML specification, and more.
Reach Your Target DITA ROI With Localization-Ready Content Practices
DITA is intended to maximize content reuse and single-source content creation, thus simplifying content maintenance and reducing localization costs. This webinar will discuss key steps to author and manage DITA content ready for localization. We hope you'll bring some questions for our expert panel!
Research Integrity by Design – Leveraging Structure and Technology for Publishing Workflows
Join this Lunch and Learn session to discover valuable resources for your publishing team aimed at minimizing fraud and misconduct throughout the peer review, manuscript acceptance, and production stages. Although there is no single solution to completely eradicate research and publishing misconduct, there are several automated integrity checks available to identify and report suspected issues on a large scale.
S1000D – Ask the Experts
S1000D is an international XML specification for the procurement and production of technical publications related to aerospace, defense, and capital-intensive equipment applications. Our S1000D experts answer your questions to help with the successful management of this complex and critical content.
PubMed Central Primer and XML101
To get journal articles indexed in PubMed requires full text JATS XML – and publishers only have three chances to submit valid XML or their PMC application is declined. This can be a confusing and intimidating process for some publishers. This webinar provides a primer to demystify the process.
Publishing at the Speed of Science: A Lunchtime Conversation With Bill Kasdorf
Publishing luminaries Bill Kasdorf and Mark Gross share a lunchtime conversation on the many transitions to new workflows and tools, multichannel dissemination, accessibility, interoperability, standards, and the drive toward openness.
Ready, Set, AI: How to Future‑Proof Your Content, Teams, and Tech Stack – a Comtech/CIDM webinar
Comtech Services, Inc./The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) present a breakdown of what “AI‑ready” really means in a webinar that shows you how to get there without derailing daily operations. The expert panel features Dipo Ajose-Coker, Senior Product Marketing Manager for RWS Tridion Docs; Sarah O’Keefe, Founder and CEO of Scriptorium; and Marianne Calilhanna, VP of Marketing at Data Conversion Laboratory.
Rewrite or Convert? Preparing Content for Automated DITA Conversion
Once an organization has decided to move content to DITA and completed its content model, there are some serious issues to resolve before the work begins. What do you do with your existing content? How much do you rewrite or clean up your content before you migrate it to DITA?
SPL and SPM – Ask the Experts
Structured Product Labeling (SPL) and Structured Product Monograph (SPM) are two industry XML standards for pharmacologic product labeling information. In this webinar, our experts answer your questions regarding SPL, SPM, conversion to the specs, business benefits for structured content, and more.