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Content Conversion and Enrichment Solutions Delivered With Accuracy, Quality, and Speed 

Customized Solutions for Complex Digital Content Challenges

DCL provides conversion and subject matter expertise for the specific workflows and challenges Association Publishers face in an increasingly competitive world. Where accuracy, quality, and speed matter, Association Publishers rely on DCL to provide customized solutions to complex digital content production challenges.

Services and Solutions

  • Digitizing entire content corpus 
  • Automating complex page composition
  • Transforming content collections to updated standards (e.g., JATS 1.2, NISO STS, BITS, etc.)
  • eBook production for special collections (e.g., ePUB and MOBI)
  • Migrating content for platform vendors (e.g., Silverchair, Highwire, Atypon, Ingenta, PubFactory, etc.)
  • Supporting ongoing delivery to discovery vendors with DCL Discovery Bridge (e.g., EBSCO, ProQuest, Kudos, OCLC, Web of Science, and others)
  • Accessibility and Section 508
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Additional Services for Associations

Your content, transformed, validated, enriched.

Following are related transformation services for association publishers.

EBooks

DCL transforms manuscripts into high-quality ebooks for all devices. We specialize in both fixed layout and reflowable text. As the mobile marketplace continues to expand and create new opportunities in technology, DCL continues to adapt to these changes to develop and produce the best eBook conversions possible.

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Accessible Website

Accessibility Starts With Structure

Accessibility is an approach to content and design that makes information available in alternative formats for people with vision impairment. DCL creates Section 508-compliant PDFs from both legacy PDF and image files. DCL’s expertise in analyzing content, providing compliance audits, and remediating assures you a smooth process that makes content accessible to all.

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Source Formats

  • Hardcopy

  • PDF

  • Word processing

  • Spreadsheets

  • Slide presentations

  • Images

  • Microfilm/fiche

  • Audio

  • Video

  • Unstructured data

  • Adobe InDesign

  • Quark Xpress​

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Target Formats

  • NLM / JATS

  • XML

  • BITS

  • NISO STS 

  • NIMAS

  • DITA

  • Other DTDs and schemas

  • HTML5

  • Bookshelf XML for books

  • EPUB

  • MOBI

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CASE STUDY: AWWA

In just 8 months, DCL transformed the American Water Works Association’s PDF content to NISO STS XML. 

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CASE STUDY: AACR

DCL’s service Content Clarity was employed to analyze, report, and update content structure across the American Association for Cancer Research journal collection.

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PRESS RELEASE: AAP

DCL analyzed and inventoried all of the American Academy of Pediatrics' legacy content using Content Clarity. 

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REPRESENTATIVE CUSTOMERS

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DCL turned around a last-minute project for us efficiently and accurately. We had such a good experience that we are now investigating more projects we can send their way. And their customer service is outstanding!

Amanda Blyth, Publications Manager at the Association for Iron & Steel Technology

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