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O t h e r N e w s: A s i d e s: F a v o r i t e s: LEAD STORIES Documents Pulped By Bulldozer - XML To The Rescue! July 20th, 2004, DCLnews Editorial
Important documentation is all too easily destroyed by fire, flood, and enraged citizens, but according to JoAnn Hackos of Comtech the best way to plan for disaster recovery is to implement XML-based content management systems. More... Beating Data RedundancyJuly 20th, 2004, DCLnews
DCL study reveals up to 70% of data can be redundant in many firms and organizations. Big time and revenue savings result simply by identifying duplication and reusing content, writes Mark Gross, president of DCL. More... EXTRA! Tri-XML Conference 2004 - DCL On Achieving Content ReuseJuly 20th, 2004, DCLnews Editorial
In a ground-breaking presentation at this year's Tri-XML conference, DCL will reveal how you can save your organization time and money by reusing content. Not by cutting and pasting (you probably do that anyway). But by eliminating redundant content and by implementing highly advanced content reuse software, tailored to the needs of your organization. DCL's content reuse presentation is complimentary and will be held as a reception at the Tri-XML Conference in Durham NC on July 23rd (Friday). The reception is at the Sheraton Imperial Auditorium from 5 to 6 PM and food, wine, beer, and soda are available (all at no cost). If your materials are already in XML (or you want to get more information on XML), you may want to attend the Tri-XML Conference. There are three themes (Concepts for Newbies & Managers; Real-World XML Implementation and Use; and Cutting Edge Technologies). Something for everybody. Discover more and sign up at: http://www.trixml.org/confindex.shtml ABOUT TRI-XML: "Tri-XML" is short for the Triangle area XML users group (which operates within the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina). The group's goal is to make the benefits of Extensible Markup Language (XML) known to the general public. Its secondary goal is to provide a venue for users of XML to share their knowledge. More at: http://www.trixml.org OTHER NEWS XML-Based Content Reuse Cuts Globalization Costs In Automotive Publishing July 2004, TransformMag
Firms doing business globally need to localize their content. Only problem is, language translation can be costly and time consuming. And languages like Arabic and Hebrew present unique challenges because they require layout changes for right-to-left reading. One company, Tweddle Litho - the world's largest support of literature for the glove box of automobiles, which publishes more than 4.5 million vehicle portfolios per year in more than a dozen languages - has learned to save money by reusing content and translations wherever possible, using automated formatting and content reuse technologies based on XML. "Many companies are cutting translation costs by as much as 70 percent through content reuse," says Renato Beninatto, an analyst at Common Sense Advisory and coauthor of a recent report on the cost of translation. "And automated composition technologies are now helping them reach the 'sim ship' ideal of simultaneously shipping to all world markets." More...
Postcard-thin E-Book ReaderJuly 5th, 2004, EnGadget
Not to be outdone by Sony, Sharp has announced its own e-book reader. The impressive-looking device is under 1mm thin, the thickness of a postcard, and Sharp say it will be available in the shops by 2007. What's more, there won't be problems with lack of content because Sharp has already signed up over 7,000 content providers for its Zaurus handheld/PDA. So the company can expect to slip into the e-newspaper/magazine market with relative ease. Sharp is currently working on a color "LCD paper" that doesn't need a light source, apparently by upping the amount of light the paper reflects. Given such developments in e-book reader hardware, it wouldn't be too optimistic to predict an e-book and e-newspaper revolution in the next four or five years. Despite media gloom on the subject, many insiders see this as only a matter of time. More... 156-Year-Old Hospital Goes PaperlessJune 29, 2004, Marketwire
Touro Infirmary, a New Orleans teaching hospital founded in 1852, is adding an IBM mainframe to its IT systems as part of an effort to move toward paperless patient care. The system will run Siemens' Invision health-care software to perform tasks such as physician queries, order entry, and patient billing. Clinical data and business records will also be taken care of. More than 2,000 doctors and other health professionals at the hospital will have access to the system. "Being just months away from a 100 percent paperless hospital, we need to have a high performance system that is extremely reliable and secure and that will keep up with our growth and technological advances," said Peter Dougherty, CIO at Touro Infirmary. "With the new z890 mainframe, we will have the additional capacity and processing speed - at a much lower acquisition and operating cost - to speed the delivery of clinical data and thus improve patient care." More...
Read about XML in Healthcare: Studying In Combat, 112 Miles West Of Baghdad - No Problem July 14th, 2004, American Military University
Studying for a degree is difficult at the best of times. So you'd think studying for exams in a combat zone would be out of the question. Not so for a group of Marines deployed 112 miles west of Baghdad. Despite the demands of war, sandstorms, power outages, and crowded living quarters, 25 Marines in the Air Traffic Control Detachment Alpha (part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing) are pursuing college degrees through the American Military University (AMU). AMU is a distance learning institution based in Charles Town, W.Va. "Being deployed to a combat zone is what we do," says Staff Sgt. Tom Draffen. "But my goal to obtain a degree doesn't go away when I deploy. Now, I don't have to postpone it when I travel 8,000 miles around the world." Draffen and his fellow Marines "attend" classes using laptops they brought from home. Or they log on for classes in the air traffic control vans or the unit's Internet access points. They study around their work schedules and whenever they find a convenient moment, regardless of the time of day or night. Because courses begin every month, students can enroll when they're ready. 800 Page Tech Manual Shock E-Bestseller - Half-Million Downloads In Two Weeks July 14th, 2004, St Petersburg Times
When he put his computer networking manual on the web earlier this month, St. Petersburg College professor Matt Basham didn't dream he would become a tech world celebrity. But within two weeks, his electronic manual was estimated to have been downloaded half-a-million times. Basham's manual, entitled "Learning by Doing: CISCO Certified Network Administrator 3.0," is an 800-page, two-volume, simply written study guide aimed at students learning how to run a computer network. Computer aficionados like it because it's written in everyday English and embraces the ideal of open source codes, or free information. Cisco was irritated at first - after all, he'd put out a free version of their training materials . But now Basham is talking with the company's publishing arm about a possible collaboration on a future book. Who was it said the "e-book revolution" was a damp squid? More... ASIDES Typewriter Makes Comeback - Man Inserts Floppy Disks Into Old IBMJuly 20th, 2004, DCLnews Editorial
According to a Wall Street Journal article, a Compaq technician received a call from a man complaining that his system wouldn't read word processing files from his old floppy disks. After trouble-shooting for magnets and heat failed to diagnose the problem, it was found that the customer labeled the diskettes then rolled them into the typewriter to type the labels... For more true tech support tales, go to:
FAVORITES Popular articles from recent issuesJuly 20th, DCLnews
Converting From PDF To XML & MS Word: Avoiding The Pitfalls Adobe PDF Conversion: How, For Whom, And When? Content Reuse - The Unseen Revolution Corporate Multi-Format Publishing Goes On Autopilot
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I don't know about you, but I miss the typewriter. You knew where you were with it and there wasn't much of a learning curve (once you learned to type). So I was pleased to hear that the typewriter is making a small comeback with one computer user, who has found a new use for his old IBM.
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