DCL Learning Series

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.

Recent changes to FDA regulations has caused consternation among drug manufacturers and distributors. Join SPL expert Howard Shatz as he reviews key issues involved with structured product labeling and how you can ensure your labeling departments are up to date with existing validation rules.

Freedom in the world of tech documentation doesn't mean anarchy—freedom allows everyone to work toward the same goal. How is this accomplished for tech doc teams? Via structure. And what does structure give you? Consistently delivered content that your customers can trust to find the info they need.

Extracting and structuring content from text- or image-based tables has long been a challenge. This webinar dives into the details of why the automated process of table structure is important, why we took the approaches we did, and how to measure the efficacy of table identification and extraction.

This webinar provides an overview of structured content for pharma and life sciences in a way that’s easy to understand. We’ll show examples you may not even realize are currently taking place and provide ideas for how you might approach spearheading a structured content initiative in your company.

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.

Bread & butter, Romeo & Juliet, fun & games… some things just go together. Semantics & structure fit this bill and are more powerful together than on their own. We explore how two organizations created a partnership that builds on their individual strengths to provide cohesive solutions for clients.

Structured content & data management along with cloud technologies enable pharmaceutical companies to: construct regulatory filings concurrently; submit filings simultaneously to multiple health authorities; allow collaboration between agencies; simplify information requests from health authorities.

Content conversion: critical components of analysis, specification, conversion, QA/QC, timeline, and budget. The content included some challenging situations that required some non-perfect decisions in terms of MathML, images, tables, and footnotes.

Technical documentation is often mistaken for a bland meal: functional and utilitarian but lacking zest and flavor. However, under the direction of a dynamic chef and with the right ingredients, technical documentation provides a rich source of knowledge that feeds all aspects of an organization. In the same way any good cook crafts ingredients into a memorable and delectable meal, working with structured content (e.g., DITA) and a high-quality Component Content Management System (CCMS) blends ordinary documentation and processes it into a Michelin Star experience that is exceptional and transformative.