Publishing & Training

Content conversion and enrichment solutions delivered with accuracy, quality, and speed

Customized Solutions for Complex Digital Content Challenges

DCL provides conversion and subject matter expertise for the specific workflows and challenges facing every type of publisher. Where accuracy, quality and speed matter, publishers rely on DCL to provide customized solutions to their most complex digital content production challenges.

Services and Solutions

Digitizing entire content corpus
Automating complex page composition
Transforming content collections to updated standards (e.g., JATS 1.2, NISO STS, BITS, etc.)
eBook production for special collections (e.g., ePUB and MOBI)
Migrating content for platform vendors (e.g., Silverchair, Highwire, Atypon, Ingenta, PubFactory, etc.)
Supporting ongoing delivery to discovery vendors with DCL Discovery Bridge (e.g., EBSCO, ProQuest, Kudos, OCLC, Web of Science, and others)

Services for Publishers

Your content, transformed, validated, enriched.

Following are related transformation services for publishers.

XML Conversion

DCL prepares content for digital distribution, converting from any file format (including paper) to a variety of structured formats including

XML conversions
PubMed
JATS
NISO STS
BITS
Onix metadata
AUDIOBOOK metadata
proprietary DTDs
and more

EBooks

DCL transforms manuscripts into high-quality ebooks for all devices. We specialize in both fixed layout and reflowable text. As the mobile marketplace continues to expand and create new opportunities in technology, DCL continues to adapt to these changes to develop and produce the best eBook conversions possible.

eBook cover on iPad with print versions underneath.

Data Conversion Laboratory helps publishers create content for the visually impaired.

Accessibility Starts With Structure

Accessibility is an approach to content and design that makes information available in alternative formats for people with vision impairment. DCL creates Section 508-compliant PDFs from both legacy PDF and image files. DCL’s expertise in analyzing content, providing compliance audits, and remediating, assures you a smooth process that makes content accessible to all.

STAND THE TEST OF TIME

Source Formats

Hardcopy
PDF
Word processing
Spreadsheets
Slide presentations
Images
Microfilm/fiche
Audio
Video
Unstructured data
Adobe InDesign
Quark Xpress

Target Formats

NLM / JATS
XML
BITS
NISO STS
NIMAS
DITA
Other DTDs and schemas
HTML5
Bookshelf XML for books
EPUB
MOBI

DCL's conversion work for us---both large projects and smaller, ongoing conversions---is fast, reliable, and highly accurate. They are a valued partner.