Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), a pioneer in electronic document conversion since 1981, teamed up with SAE International to convert a massive library of engineering documents to XML format. The project's long-term goal is to convert approximately 10,000 standards documents covering a range of industries.
XML is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format which is both human-readable and machine-readable, and allows XML-encoded documents to be used on the web, ebooks, and the many other ways that documents will get distributed over the next years. The objective of SAE International's XML conversion is to make its standards documents library more widely and conveniently accessible to the organisation's thousands of end users in engineering and manufacturing.
DCL's innovative approach to quality control has facilitated its climb to industry leadership. One example is a tailor-made viewing style sheet that DCL creates for each customer to focus a reviewer's attention on the document's most important aspects. The viewing sheet is just one facet of DCL's proprietary conversion technology that empowers customers to achieve ambitious project goals.
SAE International and DCL started working together in 2009, when SAE International turned to DCL for assistance with a critical and time-sensitive conversion of technical documents. DCL quickly leveraged its resources to deliver over 300,000 pages of high-quality material in just three months.
For the standards document conversion, SAE International has relied on the guidance of DCL to create the specifications dictating the work and its output. DCL responded with an extraordinary degree of flexibility, underscoring the characteristics that have made the company so reliable and trusted by so many customers around the world.
