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XML-first Publishing and End-to-End CREATING XML-FIRST CONTENT FOR CUSTOM SPECIFICATIONS
Digital Transformation Solutions For legacy files, SCOPE leveraged SPi Global’s custom-built XML conversion tools for exporting the client’s

By Senthilvel Palanivelu, GM, Smart Content Division, SCOPE Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) content directly into the Books Interchange Tag Suite (BITS)
Thirunavukarasu, Sr. Extractor, Smart Content Division, SCOPE
XML schema, which is customized for the hosting platform. Migrating the client’s legacy content to their new
ABOUT THE CLIENT: Is the world’s largest and most established materials platform required conversion of files to accommodate new platform requirements and specific use cases.

information society for publishing journals, magazines, reference books, and Apart from migrating the client’s legacy content, SCOPE–SPi Global also delivered online-first XMLs directly in
End-to-End Solutions
databases for the materials science community. the BITS XML format for the front files, with all necessary content enrichment including metadata, abstracts,
indexing, and thesaurus.
• XML-first
OBJECTIVE: Client had a strategic vision of their digital transformation
• Metadata
initiative for their vast collection of legacy files. They also wanted to
• Abstracts ADVANTAGES OF AN XML-FIRST WORKFLOW:
move to an XML-first digital workflow for their front files. With enriched
• Indexing
metadata—bibliographic and descriptive metadata—of abstracts, keywords, • From XML sources, content is made available in a variety of formats such as
• Thesaurus
and controlled indexing using a thesaurus developed as per the standards of HTML, web and print PDF, and ePub.
the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), client wanted to:
Scalability • The XML content is enriched with descriptive metadata, which provides an
1. Increase the value of the content through updated functionalities improved information retrievability obtained by the addition of abstracts,
for better user experience keywords, thesaurus tags, and core metadata elements.
Digital Publishing
2. Drive discovery and usage to support increased sales
3. Enable new product offerings and content reuse options

CREATION OF A THESAURUS AND INDEXING OF CONTENT

SOLUTION: END-TO-END SOLUTIONING USING SPi–SCOPE SYNERGY Empowering users to search and navigate across all content types is central to the client’s vision. To enable
this, SCOPE’s team of subject matter experts (SMEs) and certified taxonomists developed a faceted thesaurus
SPi Global is an existing vendor for typesetting and print production of one of the client’s products namely
of more than 6,300 terms, representing conceptual terms, their synonyms, and related terms, thereby
Handbooks. SCOPE, a SPi Global Company, is one of the leading abstracting, indexing, and smart content
encompassing the client’s domain or subject areas.
service providers for publishers and scholarly societies. With this synergy, SPi Global and SCOPE designed an
end-to-end service approach for digital transformation in collaboration with ASM’s stakeholders, including The processes involved include:
their new hosting platform vendor. This approach enabled a seamless migration of the client’s legacy content
 • Deep analysis of the client’s corpus of content using SPi Global’s Artificial Intelligence-enabled
and front files into the new hosting platform, along with enhanced metadata generated by SCOPE’s Subject
technology, along with a specialized team of SMEs in the client’s domain
Matter Experts (SMEs) for better discoverability.
 • Multiphase review process with the client at various stages of thesaurus development
 • Final delivery of the thesaurus to the client’s hosting platform, along with content files enriched
END-TO-END DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION SOLUTION (tagged) with the thesaurus terms developed.

Developing a
Legacy content thesaurus that Create abstracts Validate Deliver enriched Creation of a conceptual thesaurus helped in standardizing the different
and keywords,
conversion and is specific to and index the platform output files to the client terminologies used to represent concepts, thereby improving the precision and
XML-first front the client’s content based on through subject and the external recall of the search results. This helped users discover the most relevant content
files production content and the thesaurus matter experts hosting platform with minimal efforts while searching domain specific concepts.
use cases

XML-first publishing --Thesaurus -- Metadata Enrichment -- Abstracts -- Indexing -- Publishing