Content Providers
To satisfy the growing global appetite for information, DSCS provides critical data and Advanced Information Products to the world's major content providers for distribution through both digital and print channels. Our products and services give these companies access to the information that matters most to their clients.
From data conversion and licensing of comprehensive data sets to custom information management systems, DSCS will work with you to simplify access, increase productivity and enable new market opportunities. Our easy-to-use, comprehensive, and cost-effective solutions put information to work for you and your clients.
Case Studies
Global Legal Publishers: Convert legislative and regulatory information to highly structured XML
Challenge:
- Quickly and efficiently convert raw government data from bell code into highly structured XML for use by sophisticated storage, search and retrieval systems.
Solution:
- Create customized programs to collect data daily from the original source in a customized XML structure and perform conversions in real time.
Results:
- Real time information feeds with mark-up increase search and retrieval capabilities and revenue – all at a cost-effective price.
International Online Information Service: Create XML-based information system
Challenge:
- Convert data from an outdated legacy system into a highly tagged XML mark-up structure with robust search and retrieval capabilities.
- Increase the value and volume of the overall data set by adding in data converted from paper, word processing documents, Excel spreadsheets, .pdf documents and other sources.
- Develop a system to process ongoing data feeds from various sources into this new data structure.
Solution:
- Create processes and a system infrastructure based on the current and potential future needs and uses for the data.
- Key data, write conversion programs and establish quality checks to eliminate errors.
- Establish and test the new systems and programs while data is being loaded, resulting in improvements and added capabilities above and beyond the original design specifications.
Results:
- New information management system increases work capacity, convenience and productivity.
- Also creates revenue opportunities beyond the scope of the original project.
Information Management Experience
Provide data feeds — including editorial updates and enhancements — to numerous government data sets for use by various publishers’ online systems.
Design and build XML-based system for conversion, storage, enhancement and retrieval of multiple data sets.
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