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Columbia University Press set to publish first ever "Bible" of digital publishing Date: 11/6/2002, DCLnews Exclusive The epic Columbia Guide To Digital Publishing will be released in January 2003 in both print and online editions. It has an impressive array of authors, including DCL President Mark Gross, who wrote the chapter on data conversion methodology. What's more, the book is not just theory, it practices what it preaches ... more INSIDE STORY: Why MathML adds value to STM publishing Date: 11/6/2002, DCLnews Guest Article In an exclusive guest article,
Paul Topping, of Design Science, Inc, highlights the
benefits of using MathML to represent mathematical equations
... and reveals how useful this technology can be when carried through
to the web PLUS... Adobe PDF Conversion: How, for whom, and when? Date: 11/6/2002, DCLnews Extra Lazar Weisz of DCL gives the lowdown on PDF conversion in the first of a series of white papers on the subject. This month, an overview of PDF ... more Second annual DCLnews survey on data conversion activity Date: 11/5/2002, DCLnews Extra If you haven't already done so,
would you like to help us with our second annual survey?
We've already had a big response. But the more readers who contribute,
the more extensive our upcoming DCLnews report analyzing the
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Mikhail has been with DCL for over 6 years and has served in number of positions ranging from Production Manager and Project Manager to currently Director of Educational Publishing Division. Mikhail is an active member in several technical industry groups such as the Open eBook Forum Publication Structure Working Group and the AAP Enabling Technologies Committee. Mikhail is a co-author of the Open eBook Publication Structure specification.
OTHER NEWS: XML takes the headache out of business research Date: 10/28/2002, ADTmag.com
But Cincinnati firm, Intelliseek, Inc, believe the solution lies in a combination of data mining and XML. "This is the key that allows you to take unstructured data and provide business users with valuable nuggets of information," says Sundar Kadayam, Chief Information Officer at Intelliseek. The firm's current technology uses XML tagging to help make sense of unstructured data and then delivers it to customers via web interface or directly into their own applications via SOAP ... more DOD says information will be killer weapon in the future Date: 10/9/2002, Government Computer News.com The most powerful weapon of the future will not be a missile, tank, or fighter aircraft. It will be information. Speaking at the October 2002 Military Communications Conference in Anaheim, California, Army Lt. Gen Joseph K. Kellogg revealed: "The role of info will be the new silver bullet of the future, one that will change how we deploy our forces. The battlefield will be seamless, and it will be integrated." Today a lot of the coordination and integration work that goes with managing information is left to the individual armed services, resulting in systems that often can't talk to each other. Kellogg admitted that the current moves to make information a priority will require that the services give up some of their sovereignty ... more Austin Public Library adds 5,000 e-books to its "virtual shelves" Date: 10/25/2002, Austin Daily Herald More than 5,000 electronic books have been added to Austin Public Library's catalog. Titles can be accessed from any computer through NetLibrary by library card holders. "It's a sleek thing because it's like a real book, but on a computer," said librarian Maggie Snow. The check out period is for three days. Once the book is due, the computer automatically checks it back into the library, so there are no overdue fines ... more
"Where you can't get a ground station established quickly you need some other platform that can handle communications. A refueling aircraft is generally stationary over a given area, so they make a very good platform," said Michael Solley, CEO of MTC Technologies Corp ... more First PDA for the blind comes with hefty price tag Date: 10/24/2002, WiredNews The first handheld computer for the blind has been developed and will ship later this year. Called "PAC Mate," the personal digital assistant runs on Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system. it comes complete with an eight-dot braille keyboard or QWERTY-style keyboard. Plus it lets users access all Windows' applications, including Word documents, Outlook e-mail, and Internet Explorer Developed by blind engineer David Engebretson and colleagues, along with software firm Freedom Scientific, the device is aimed at blind professionals. But with a price tag of $2,595, the question is will they be able to afford it? ... more
Regimental Sergeant-Major Brian Pratt, who was organizing the hunt over 200 miles of terrain, said: "How do you lose something as big as that?" Apparently, fairly easily: It's not the first time that the Army has mislaid one of the tanks. Three went missing and were never recovered after a similar exercise in 1992. ... more Best of DCLnews:
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