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Vol. 7, Issue 2.5
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February 2005
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>>>>>>> SPECIAL EDITION: CONTENT MANAGEMENT/REUSE
L e a d S t o r i e s:
Content reuse - a major factor in assessing ROI for content management (part 2)
Weeding out wasted words saves money and lives
E v e n t s:
Webinar (this coming Tuesday): Content reuse - a big ROI factor in content management
Coming soon: Webinar - put your content on a diet
O t h e r N e w s:
Content management to be "beefed up"
Space shuttle external tank manufacturing goes (near) paperless
XML's seventh birthday marked in London
Push for "healthcare internet"
Airbus unveils paperless "super jumbo"
A s i d e s:
Content management systems are a lot like human relationships...
F a v o r i t e s:
Popular articles from recent issues
LEAD STORIES
Feb 22nd, 2005, DCLnews
In part two of a guest article for DCLnews, content management guru Ann Rockley gives the lowdown on content reuse. Last month she talked about how to determine where reuse can positively impact your ROI; this issue she covers how to identify your percentage of reuse.
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Feb 22nd, 2005, DCLnews
 Identifying duplicate paragraphs and phrases in documentation collections brings cost and maintenance savings and removes damaging errors - even ahead of the content management system. DCLnews reports.
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EVENTS
Ann Rockley, The Rockley Group, Tuesday March 1, 2005 at 1:30 - 2:30 PM Eastern
(18:30 - 19:30 PM GMT)
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 24th, 2005, Information Week
Content management will be even more innovative in the near future, according to a Forrester Research analyst, and "could focus on building out content-centric apps, addressing business needs better than they do now." An example of upcoming content-management applications that are industry-specific can be seen in a prototype created by Vizible Corp, which ties together fire, police, public works, and traffic information in a single view.
Oracle is another firm working on beefed up content management systems and already has a repository as part of its Content Management Software Developer's Kit, which supports rich media such as video and voice. Rich Buchheim, senior director of product development at Oracle, says: "We expect to add macro support like records management, versioning, and workflow [for rich content]." He warns, however, that high-level support for third-party content-management application vendors could take up to three years.
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Feb 17th, 2005, Frontline Solutions
 NASA and Lockheed Martin Space Systems are to mothball three legacy applications in favor of a content management solution, that will make the exchange of information surrounding the building of space shuttle external tanks near paperless. Lockheed Martin Space Systems designs and assembles large aluminum structures like the space shuttle external tank for aerospace at the NASA assembly plant in New Orleans. The new information management solution allows Lockheed Martin to document, analyze and remove nonconformances, as well as manage the corrective and preventive action process.
"The [system] delivers the visibility and traceability that are critical as we initiate a near paperless manufacturing process for the Space Shuttle External Tank program," said John Welborn of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, who is overseeing the project. "[It] offers tools that organize shop floor work documentation and nonconformance data so we have an accurate view of work status at all times."
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Feb 10th, 2005, The Guardian
One of the creators of XML was in London at the beginning of the month to mark the seventh anniversary of the popular markup language, which drives everything from content management systems to web services. Jean Paoli, now the senior XML architect at Microsoft, said the success of XML was down to one thing: " We really wanted this to happen."
He outlined the results of a Microsoft study which interviewed 126 UK IT managers and found that 59% were using XML technology. The usage mainly revolved around the delivery of web services and the exchange of data with external partners or suppliers. But 46% said they were using XML for creating web content, transformed with XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations).
Paoli highlighted another area where XML is making a big difference to the way we live: electronic forms that deliver XML to patient management systems, he said, are speeding up hospital emergency admissions, making sure accurate patient data is available to attending doctors.
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Feb 7th, 2005, Computerworld
The Health Record Network Foundation (HRN), a joint venture of N.C.-based Duke University's medical and business schools has disclosed plans to launch a pilot program to create a portal where patient health information would be accessible over the Internet. HRN is also finalizing plans for a statewide pilot program in Wyoming and is in discussions with other states.
Most efforts to extend the reach of electronic health records today focus on creating standards that link IT systems in physicians' offices, hospitals and insurance companies. In contrast, HRN plans to build on the pilot projects to form a "health care Internet" where authorized physicians and other users can access the health care history of all patients in the system.
Information that would be stored in the system could include a child's immunization records, the health care history of an aging patient, prescription data and lab results, said Brian Baum, HRN's CEO .
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Jan 18th, 2005, CTV
 The Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane in the world - unveiled in mid January in France - is set to be completely computerized, with no paper manuals or charts on board. "It allows the pilot not to bring any paper manuals in the cockpit. The big flight book they used to have is gone. It's replaced by computers," an aerospace expert said.
The airliner's advanced onboard electronic information system puts all the safety, operating and maintenance information a crew needs at their fingertips. The cockpit is connected to a network of eight in-flight servers, offers triple redundancy and makes the A380 the most digitized plane in history.
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ASIDES
Feb 22nd, 2005, DCLnews
In this issue of DCLnews we've had the opinions of tech gurus and business leaders on content management systems (CMS). Now it's time for the real truth about them - they're a lot like relationships. Here's why:
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There comes a point in your life when you feel that you really should be in one.
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You can only really use one (conflicts arise if others hang around).
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Soon you notice new ones, and your affection begins to wander - but the upheaval of changing is just too much to consider moving on.
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Having been in one, you need some time to recover before you start your next.
Read more at:
http://www.slinkycity.com/technology-mistakes.html
FAVORITES
Feb 22nd, 2005, DCLnews
Converting From PDF To XML & MS Word: Avoiding The Pitfalls
http://www.dclab.com/converting_from_pdf.asp
DCLab.com FAQ
http://www.dclab.com/dclfaq.asp
XML file format levels educational playing field for visually impaired
http://www.dclab.com/xml_file_format_blind.asp
Reuse: A Substantial Factor in Determining ROI for Content Management
http://www.dclab.com/ann_rockley_roi.asp
Adobe PDF Conversion: How, For Whom, And When?
http://www.dclab.com/pdfwhitepaper2.asp
Quark to XML Conversion
http://www.dclab.com/quarktoxml.asp
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DCLnews Staff
Publisher:
Mark Gross, President DCL
Editor:
Jimmy Lee Shreeve, U.K. Journalist
Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc.
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Fresh Meadows, NY 11365
Telephone: 718-357-8700
Website: www.dclab.com
Editorial: DCLnews@dclab.com
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