Knowledge services company Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope) has announced that
ASTM International, one of the largest voluntary standards developers worldwide, has engaged the company to provide enhanced smart content services and MARC cataloguing for its highly valued content. Previously, Scope had developed a domain-specific, multi-level taxonomy for the vast array of content within ASTM's Standards and Engineering Digital Library (SEDL).
Scope also developed facets with a taxonomic structure to enable robust cross domain search, as well as created an expanded list of keywords to be mapped to the taxonomy and facets. ASTM has expanded its partnership with Scope to broaden these 'smart content' services to include a Portuguese language version of the taxonomy, facets and keywords to enhance the discoverability of its content by its Brazilian end users. Additionally, Scope will catalogue standards, e-books and journal issues published by ASTM based on MARC21 standards.
Scope eKnowledge Center, a leading content enhancement and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) provider to publishers and specialised information providers, will employ its proven 'assisted automation' approach that blends its proprietary automation technology with intervention from subject domain and translation experts to create this solution for ASTM International.
According to Scope's President Tram Venkatraman, this opportunity reflects a significant expansion of Scope's 'smart content' services to enable its client's to enhance discoverability of content via non-English language metadata for a number of Asian and European languages.
Scope and ASTM International have also signed a deal for providing MARC cataloguing services, which involve cataloguing of selected technical papers (STPs), e-books and journal issues published by ASTM based on MARC21 standards.
