Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. (DCL) and ASTM International, a global standards organisation, have partnered to solve an ongoing challenge for professional societies and associations - making published content more discoverable.
Discovery vendors and indexers, like Compendex/Scopus, EBSCO, and Thomson Reuters, each have precise requirements on how and when content and metadata should be delivered for maximum exposure. Many publishers struggle with meeting the varying structure and timing requirements of each vendor. ASTM International approached DCL with this challenge - and DCL Discovery Bridge is the result. DCL Discovery Bridge is a hosted subscription-based service that allows publishers to offload the burden while guaranteeing consistent and timely delivery of publishers' content to each and every discovery vendor they work with.
The DCL Discovery Bridge solution is built around a hub and spoke model where some of the spokes are inputs (content) from the publisher - in this case, ASTM International - and some of the spokes are delivery channels to various discovery vendors. The heart of the process is the hub, a set of DCL hosted services that automatically pick up client content (journal articles, books, magazine articles, technical papers, conference proceedings and standards documents, etc.), along with metadata associated with each content object from the publisher.
Hub-based services normalise the incoming metadata into a master metadata structure, creating discovery vendor-specific feeds of content objects and metadata in the format and structure each vendor can most easily integrate into their platform. The feeds are automatically delivered to each vendor for ingestion into their platforms.
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