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SINCE 1981, Data Conversion Laboratory Inc. has provided conversion services and software to publishers, industry, government, libraries, and documentation developers.  It is our only business.  We have successfully converted more than 200 million pages to date.


We built a big reputation by thinking very small.

A privately held New York State corporation, DCL is headquartered in Fresh Meadows, New York, in close proximity to JFK International and LaGuardia airports.  The company has satellite offices in Albuquerque, NM, Potomac, MD, and Reston, VA, and maintains long-term strategic relationships with facilities on four continents that provide support services for high-volume data-entry and data-processing services using our process control software.

DCL’s project methodology goes beyond mere conversion:

    We reorganize and enhance documents to the new and more exacting requirements of electronic publishing and data distribution. Plus we provide the project management and control systems to assure on-time, accurate delivery of our client's project with the flexibility to meet future requirements.

Much of DCL's experience is with complex technical documentation, typically characterized by elaborate tables, equations, cross-referencing, special characters, footnotes, and complex imaging requirements.  Utilizing a vast library of specially developed conversion filters, the company can adapt and modify its software to handle any data set.  Using this automated approach yields an uncompromisingly consistent end product.


Our content-tagging enables infinite cross-reference flexibility and hyperlinking

DCL is a leading conversion vendor to a diverse range of industries.  These include publishing, aerospace, defense, automotive, telecommunications, computer hardware and software, professional societies, government agencies, and utility providers.  DCL's clients include the British Medical Association, Blackwell Science, Matthew Bender & Co., Warren, Gorham & Lamont, ICLE (Institute of Continuing Legal Education), HighWire Press, Ovid Technologies, McGraw-Hill, Harcourt, Wolters Kluwer, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, Bombardier Aerospace, Delta Air Lines, Gulfstream Aerospace, United Defense, L.P., Jeppesen Sanderson, John Deere, Lucent Technologies, Xerox Corp., the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library.

DCL’s expertise in SGML and XML is recognized in a variety of forums.  DCL’s president, Mark Gross, recently authored the chapter on legacy document conversion to XML for Charles Goldfarb’s1  XML Handbook (Prentice Hall), and is currently authoring the Conversion chapter for Columbia University’s The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing. DCL staff frequently speak on document conversion at leading industry conferences.  Recent conferences at which the company has presented academic papers include:

  • Society of Scholarly Publishing
  • BookTech
  • American Medical Publishers Association (AMPA)
  • Council of Biology Editors (CBE)
  • XML 2000
  • Internet Publishing Expo
  • 21st Century Commerce (AFEI/CALS)
  • Documation Canada
  • SGML World
  • E-Commerce World
  • FOSI
  • SGML Forum of New York
  • National Online Meeting

The company is a member of many professional organizations including the Association for Enterprise Integration (AFEI/ CALS), Association of American Publishers (AAP), the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), the Graphic Communications Association (GCA), the Open eBook Forum, and the SGML Forum of New York.


1Charles Goldfarb is widely recognized as the father of SGML.
 

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