Quality assurance refers to a process by which the output of a conversion project is monitored to ensure that every standard of excellence is being met. Quality assurance may be performed with the help of automated software, manually, or both.
Advantages
Quality assurance processes ensure that conversion standards are being met both during and after the completion of a conversion project. The early identification of any errors allows the conversion processes to be fine-tuned so that future errors are eliminated, and a post-conversion quality assurance check ensures that no errors appear in the final product.
How DCL can help
Quality assurance is included as a component of all DCL conversion services. We also offer separate, stand-alone quality assurance services, which may be used for independent reviews of converted results or to provide oversight for an in-house or outsourced conversion project.
- Getting Your Content Into XML
A Management Perspective (11/1999)
http://www.dclab.com/XMLwhitepaper.asp
- Conversion Myths Debunked
Documentation conversions are neither as costly nor as inexpensive as many people seem to believe. But common myths about document conversion prices make it difficult to arrive at a realistic estimate. DCL separates fact from fiction in this breakdown of the factors that affect conversion cost. (1/2010)
http://www.dclab.com/conversion_costs.asp - Now That We've Got DITA Up and Running, What's Next?; Part II of a Case Study in DITA at CaridianBCT
In Part II, "Lessons Learned", Jennifer Linton returns to talk about future concerns and issues associated with CaridianBCT's new GEM DITA/XML content management system. Part I described development and implementation. (2/2009)
http://www.dclab.com/dita_global_local2.asp - XML Angel
XML not only makes life easier and more profitable for STM publishers, it can also be a life-saver, reveals mark-up expert Debbie Lapeyre in the first of our "Insight into XML" interviews (5/2002)
http://www.dclab.com/xmlangel.asp