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Vol. 7, Issue 2
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February 2005
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L e a d S t o r i e s:
Content reuse - a major factor in assessing ROI for content management
XML file format levels educational playing field for visually impaired
E v e n t s:
Free online webinar: Content reuse: A substantial factor in determining ROI for content management
Coming soon: Webinar - put your content on a diet
O t h e r N e w s:
National Guard using Class V IETMs in Abrams tank maintenance
Florida hospital heralded by government as electronic health records flagship
Navy steams into the lead with official XML rules
Military health care records - Army medics “put foot in right century”
UK university goes Open Access
PLoS to launch new journals
A s i d e s:
Predictions people lived to regret...
F a v o r i t e s:
Popular articles from recent issues
LEAD STORIES
Feb 1st, 2005, DCLnews
 In a guest article for DCLnews, content management guru Ann Rockley reveals how content reuse (write once, reuse content many times) can bring big cost savings, when combined with a content management system. It lowers the costs of creating, maintaining and delivering content. And if you translate your material, reuse can have an even greater impact on reducing costs. (Part 1 of 2).
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Feb 1st, 2005, DCLnews
 Students who are blind or visually impaired will no longer have to wait six months or longer for accessible textbooks, thanks to a new national file standard. DCLnews reports.
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EVENTS
Ann Rockley, The Rockley Group, Tuesday March 1, 2005 at 1:30pm ET
When implementing a content management system, reusing content can be the biggest factor for real return on investment. Reusing content (write once, reuse content many times) cuts costs in the creation, maintenance and delivery of content. Join us at our no cost March webinar and discover:
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Where reuse has an impact on ROI
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How to identify your percentage of reuse
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How to calculate ROI using reuse
Click here to register.
Content reuse no cost webinar, presented by Arbortext and DCL
Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (16:00 - 17:00 PM GMT)
Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) studies show most document collections contain more than 50% redundancy, meaning that most companies maintain twice as much content than needed at twice the expense. This can result in a waste of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours each year. With content reuse, you can:
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Reduce the size of your documentation set significantly
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Update materials faster
- Attain consistent information
- Lower translation and conversion costs
In this seminar, presented by Arbortext and DCL, you'll see how DCL's tool, Harmonizer, can easily help you eliminate redundant content, hear content reuse success stories from others, and learn the basics of a content reuse strategy.
Sign up for this free online seminar now:
http://www.arbortext.com/webinars/ContentDiet.asp
OTHER NEWS
Jan 19th, 2005, Frontline Solutions
The U.S. Army National Guard will use an integrated logistics and support application to improve maintenance of combat vehicles. The system includes a "Class V" IETM (Interactive Electronic Technical Manual) that will be deployed for 17 military vehicles. Technicians and mechanics will access the system via a secured wireless network
Developed by Enigma Inc., the software lets users search technical manuals, find repair instructions and order parts from a single interface. It also automatically updates parts lists and distributes service bulletins.
"The system eliminates the need to sort through pages and pages of technical documentation," said John Snow, vice president of marketing and business development at Enigma.
The system will provide National Guard technicians with real-time access to the specific technical manuals and parts catalogs needed to service more than 2,700 fighting vehicles, including the Abrams tank and the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
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Jan 23rd, 2005, MSNBC
The new Baptist Medical Center South in Northeast Florida features state-of-the-art care on a 32-acre campus, but one thing is missing - paper. Medical histories, treatment orders and all other documents are kept only in electronic format. According to hospital administrators this increases safety, reduces costs, and frees up staff to spend more time with patients (some literature estimates that automating nursing documentation can free up 90 minutes each day for each nurse).
“It will also bring crucial information to doctors’ attention,” says Roland Garcia, senior vice president and chief information officer at Baptist South. For example, when a doctor orders a drug for a patient on the wireless tablet, any allergies or drug reactions will immediately be displayed. "The physician can decide right then what he wants to do."
Government officials see the new medical center as one of the first steps in a national push to begin coordinating and sharing health information. "If the data is not electronically captured, then there is nothing to share," said Michael Heekin, chairman of Gov. Jeb Bush's Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board, which was created in May 2004.
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Jan 25th, 2005, Government Computer News
The Navy has set enterprise-wide naming and design rules (NDRs) for use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) in all systems. Navy Department CIO David M. Wennergren says the rules will ensure that all service systems exchanging data with XML are “based on a consistent set of schema” to align them with the Defense Department’s network-centric data strategy and the Federal Enterprise Architecture Data Reference Model.
The service’s NDR, under way since 2001, has now reached version 2.0 - a milestone, according to Mark L. Crawford, senior research fellow at LMI Government Consulting of McLean, Va. He says the XML mandate puts the Navy “absolutely in the lead” among agencies. “No other agencies to my knowledge have reached a Version 2.0.”
The Navy has long taken an active part in international standards groups such as the World Wide Web Consortium and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. NDR 2.0 follows the Universal Business Language naming and design rules, which Crawford predicts will become an OASIS standard very soon.
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Jan 8th, 2005, Stars & Stripes
A centralized record-keeping system designed to replace service members’ and dependents’ paper medical files has been installed at its first European hospital, signaling the start of an electronic revolution in the military health-care system.
Called the Composite Health Care System II, the new program will eventually store all military patients’ medical information on a central database in Montgomery, Ala. The new records (kept as electronic files in CHCS II) will pension off the stacks of hand-written documents traditionally carried by service members.
“...It should have incredible benefits,” says Dr. Robert Walker, a physician and the deputy of primary care at the U.S. Army hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. “It’s basically putting our foot in the right century.”
The advantages include the ability of doctors in military hospitals worldwide to view online a single, up-to-date record for each patient, eliminating duplicate files and preventing doctors from having to “start from scratch” when someone loses their paper record.
According to Walker, the other major benefit is the new electronic records will be legible: “It sounds really simple, but it makes a big difference in patient safety,” he says.
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Jan 26th, 2005, Guardian
Southampton University has made all of its academic and scientific research output available for free on the web. The University says the decision marks a new era in Open Access in Britain. It describes the self-archiving project’s purpose as “to make the full text of the peer-reviewed research output of scholars/scientists and their institutions visible, accessible, harvestable, searchable and usable by any potential user with access to the Internet.”
The project is powered by an open source GNU EPrints database, which Southampton has tested since 2002. The repository provides a publications database with full text, multimedia and research data, and it will now become a core part of the university's publishing process.
"We see our Institutional Repository as a key tool for the stewardship of the University's digital research assets," says Professor Paul Curran, deputy vice-chancellor of the University. "It will provide greater access to our research, as well as offering a valuable mechanism for reporting and recording it. The University has been committed to Open Access for many years. The fact that we are now supporting it with core funding is another tangible step towards its full achievement."
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Jan 1st, 2005, Library Journal
The Public Library of Science, the pioneering U.S. non-profit publisher of Open Access journals, will launch three new journals this year. Part of an ambitious plan to transform scientific publishing, PLoS launched PLoS Biology in 2003 and PLoS Medicine in 2004. Next up are PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, and PLoS Pathogens. Costs are covered by author fees, currently $1500.
"We believe that scientific publishing should be funded upfront by the organizations that sponsor research, rather than at the back end through ever increasing subscription rates," says PLoS co-founder Harold Varmus.
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ASIDES
Feb 1st, 2005, DCLnews
Back in 1957, the editor in charge of business books at Prentice Hall traveled the length and breadth of America researching the market for computing. He came to the conclusion that data processing was a fad - “it won’t last out the year,” he said. Even Bill Gates got it badly wrong in 1981 when he said: “Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?” Then there was Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM, who, in 1943, said: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
They are not alone. Many famous people have made predictions they lived to regret.
Read more at:
http://www.slinkycity.com/technology-mistakes.html
FAVORITES
Feb 1st, 2005, DCLnews
Converting From PDF To XML & MS Word: Avoiding The Pitfalls
http://www.dclab.com/converting_from_pdf.asp
U.S. Army gives paperwork an honorable discharge
http://www.dclab.com/army_digital.asp
Scientific literature: Who should pay - author or subscriber?
http://www.dclab.com/stm_business_model.asp
Quark to XML Conversion
http://www.dclab.com/QuarktoXML.asp
Adobe PDF Conversion: How, For Whom, And When?
http://www.dclab.com/pdfwhitepaper2.asp
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DCLnews Staff
Publisher:
Mark Gross, President DCL
Editor:
Jimmy Lee Shreeve, U.K. Journalist
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