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Vol. 10, Issue 9

December 2008

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LEAD STORIES

	Now That We've Got DITA Up and Running, What's Next?; Part II of a Case Study in DITA at CaridianBCT By Jennifer Linton, CaridianBCT Jennifer Linton returns to talk about the future concerns and issues associated with the new GEM DITA/XML content management system described in Part 1.
	Making the Case for XQuery By Norm Walsh, Mark Logic Corporation Now that you have an XML repository, what are you going to do with it?

OTHER NEWS
- New DCL Editor
- XML - Code for the Future
- Data Mining the Flu
- Christian Science Monitor Abandons Daily Print Edition in Favor
   of Web
- Beyond the Tag Cloud
- Anatomy of an XML Document: What are the parts of XML?

GREAT WEB SITES YOU'VE LIKELY NOT SEEN
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LEAD STORIES

Now That We've Got DITA Up and Running, What's Next?;
Part II of a Case Study in DITA at CaridianBCT
December 2008: DCLNews
In Part II, Jennifer Linton returns to talk about the future concerns and issues associated with the new GEM DITA/XML content management system described in Part 1.

Ranging from local service providers (LSPs), to the training needed for the new tools by a variety of users including authors, reviewers, translators, and in-country reviewers, Jennifer Linton describes how CaridianBCT plans to support each of these functional areas going forward. She also touches on how to calculate cost savings, manage change and above all, identify the right resources and skills needed to support this new environment.
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Making the Case for XQuery
December 2008: DCLNews
Now that you have an XML repository, what are you going to do with it?

Enter XQuery. XQuery facilitates the ability to extract data intelligently from both real and virtual documents, and thereby enables the interaction between the web world and the database world. Its main benefit is essentially providing the ability to search and access XML files like databases and extract and manipulate data from XML documents or any data source that can be rendered as xml. Norm Walsh, Principal Technologist at Mark Logic Corporation describes how the combination of XQuery and XML will provide the flexibility and functionality to manage and optimize an XML repository.
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OTHER NEWS

New DCL Editor
December, 2008
Data Conversion Laboratory is pleased to announce that Corilee Christou is the new Editor-in-Chief of its newsletter, DCLNews. An information industry veteran with more than twenty years experience, Corilee also authors the monthly feature, "Publishing Trends" for Searcher Magazine. Corilee also spent many years at LexisNexis where she developed not only the industry's first Aggregator Subscription Pricing program, but also began and managed the initial Information Professional Support Team, a group of degreed librarians in support of LexisNexis information center clientele. Today, all leading information aggregators offer similar programs. A graduate of Brandeis University (BA) and Simmons Graduate School of Library Science (MLS), Corilee may be found hacking around a golf course during her free time, weather permitting.

XML - Code for the Future
October 17, 2008, Liz Thompson, Publishers Weekly
IdeaLogical's Mike Shatzkin delivered some news at a Frankfurt seminar that will shock many publishers: printed books now come under the catch-all contractual category of subsidiary rights. It is part of what has been called "the Copernican change" - that is, intellectual property is now the sun, not the book. "The book is merely one orbiting opportunity," declared Shatzkin at a session entitled Start with XML.
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Data Mining the Flu
November 11, 2008: The Official Google Blog
As winter approaches, visions of sugarplums are not the only things dancing in our heads. For many, the flu will also share the season's dance card. Want to know what the chances are of contracting the flu in your State? By identifying trends in search queries, and comparing them to statistics compiled by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Google software engineers have launched "Google Flu Trends", where users can find estimated influenza-related activity estimates for all 50 States.
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Christian Science Monitor Abandons Daily Print Edition in Favor of Web
October 29, 2008: Brand Republic
NEW YORK - After 100 years, The Christian Science Monitor now becomes the latest newspaper to scrap its daily print issue to focus on running its website as a rolling news service, leaving in print only a weekly weekend magazine. One of the most well known, and well respected titles in the newspaper business, this does not bode well for other primarily print centric papers.
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Beyond the Tag Cloud
November 11, 2008, Laura Dawson, StartWithXMLBlog, November 11, 2008
A new Gilbane Group study reports that 92% of respondents are concerned about the risks of not improving content globalization processes. Gilbane first began looking at the challenges facing companies with multilingual communications in 2006 and has since established a formal practice area on the subject. This most recent research, based on interviews with 40 mid-and senior-level managers, shares those challenges and the current state of content globalization within various organizations. Results reveal gaps in what companies want and what they are doing to get there; a lack of interoperability of processes such as authoring/translation/publishing; and an "emergence of formal, organized strategies to address these issues." Download the study for free (with registration).
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Anatomy of an XML Document: What are the parts of XML?
November 13, 2008, Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com
Think you know what you need to about writing XML from the onset? You may know just enough about XML to be dangerous, because whether you're writing XML from scratch or writing a document from a pre-defined specification there is a standard layout for XML.
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