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Structuring Data and Content Since 1981

DCL and Related Technology Milestones

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2000s

The NLM DTD/JATS project originated at NIH in 2002. It was based on the earlier PMC 1.0 DTD, and the E-Journal Archive DTD Feasibility Study, a 2001 report prepared by Inera Inc. under a Mellon Foundation grant for the Harvard University Libraries. 

DCL releases the first iteration of its Harmonizer software to analyze and identify redundant content

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DITA Specification

DITA is an OASIS Open standard that was first published in 2005 and the DITA architecture was originally developed inside IBM for IBM technical publications

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The IDPF releases the technical standard for ePUB

DCL Celebrates 25 Years in Business

"Converting your data into corporate assets"

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2010s

DCL named to EContent 100,  a list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry 

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DCL hits 200 million converted pages milestone

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Apple releases the first iPad

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DCL on the cover of Publishers Weekly

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