Conversion services and software provider Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. (DCL), US, has been selected to aid HighWire Press, a division of Stanford University Libraries, in an ongoing project to standardise files HighWire hosts online on behalf of scholarly publishers.
HighWire's original platform supported a number of SGML DTDs, including the Keton DTD, the HighWire DTD, and others. After participating in the research that ultimately gave rise to the National Library of Medicine (NLM)'s Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite as an industry standard, HighWire adopted NLM XML as its new encoding model for journal content, while continuing to support other DTDs as well. With assistance from DCL, HighWire began the process of converting all legacy content originally cast in other DTDs to this new standard.
At present, DCL is working on converting the Keton SGML files and has already converted nearly 60,000 pages. The next segment of the project involves converting over one million pages. The first 225,000 page portion is scheduled for completion in 2010, the remainder to be delivered in 2011.
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