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Fresh Meadows, NY, September 25, 2025–Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), a leader in structured data and content transformations, announces that global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ Group has selected DCL’s Content Crystallizer solution to streamline editorial and production workflows across its flagship journal The BMJ. Content Crystallizer automates many of the styling, editing, conversion, and QC steps required to transform Word manuscripts into high-quality XML, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in support of The BMJ’s world-class scientific research.

Using a three-step process, Content Crystallizer provides The BMJ with the dual advantage of speed and precision across journal editorial and production tasks. Manuscripts are prepared, styled, and converted to XML in minutes, accelerating a process that traditionally takes hours of manual effort. Automated quality checks built into each stage ensure consistency, accuracy, and compliance with journal styles and standards and certify that all required metadata elements have been included. The result is faster turnaround, reduced workload for editorial teams, and high-quality XML that supports reliable, timely publication.

“Our world-renowned editorial standards underpin the knowledge we publish, and working with a partner like DCL allows us to scale workflows while maintaining the quality our research community expects,” explains James Ross, Acting Managing Editor at The BMJ.

“The value of Content Crystallizer for The BMJ is that we’ve automated multiple editorial tasks and checks, as well as created lookups of third-party data from sources like Crossref and PubMed—all customized to The BMJ’s specific requirements,” states David Turner, Director of Publishing Automation, Digital Transformation, and Content Technologies at DCL. “Yet the solution includes human-in-the-loop review, which is proving to be the winning approach for research integrity and editorial excellence.”

DCL distinguishes itself by continually leading the charge in content conversion and extraction technology and creating advanced techniques to improve accuracy while reducing costs. Click here to learn more about how structured content improves discoverability, interoperability, and innovation.