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NLM CONVERSION TO BUILD “ATOMIC” PHYSICS CONTENT IN AN AGILE FASHION
JATS-CON, April 2, 2014
OSA – The Optical Society &
DCL – Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc.
scholarly publisher with 19 current and legacy journals, 300+ conference proceedings
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How?
Break 1917-2012 content into “well-polished” atomic pieces following an industry standard
Develop infrastructure to manage and enrich content, to build new products and services in an agile fashion
Budget allocated for five-year strategic plan
OSA Governance: Build more-flexible products and services!
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Some evidence of success
With content converted to NLM XML, have developed
Enhanced article: Interactive HTML
Derivative products: ImageBank
Business Intelligence: New insights into author, topic, funding, and other trends
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Citation data
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Equation data
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Legacy content (750,000 journal pages)
We expected this . . .
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This . . . not so much
JOURNAL AS COMIC BOOK SCHOOL YEARBOOK
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1. Most confusing: Articles skipping pages, sometimes in two directions
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2. Most shocking: legacy PDF not matching Legacy print
Legacy PDF for same article
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3. Most pervasive: nonscientific content tacked onto research articles
These are not the authors
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Project specifications: two extremes
2. Spend up to a year doing heavy content analysis and spec creation
1. Hand the project over to
the trusted vendor and be
done with it
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Data Conversion Laboratory
• We convert content from any format to any format.
• Expertise with JATS, and most industry standard DTD’s and Schemas
• Established in 1981; a pioneer in the data conversion industry
• Over a billion pages converted
• Expertise in complex conversion projects; STM Publishing, eBooks, Technical documents, Educational Publishing, and Library Digitization.
• Projects range from one book to entire libraries and legacy collections
• Infrastructure for large-scale projects, with automated tracking, quality assurance, and customer reporting for every item
• Industries include Publishing, Technical Societies, Aerospace, Government, Defense, Health Sciences, Libraries & Universities
• Publish DCLNews, a monthly newsletter devoted to XML and Electronic Publishing topics going to 7,000 subscribers
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Thoughts on Managing a Large Legacy Conversion Effort
1) Phased Approach
2) Flexibility and Collaboration
3) Keep it Simple
4) Keep Monitoring Quality
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1) Phased ApproachWhy?• Varied sources (PDF, XML, SGML)• Content that changed over time• Very large input corpus going back to 1917• Allow for the quick, phased release of new OSA products
Strategy for OSA materials• Focus on one source type at a time but keep the big picture in mind• Convert newest material first • Review and decide on conversion nuances as they came up
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XML • OSA Proprietary DTD• NLM v2.3 DTD
PDF • PDF Normal• PDF Image
SGML• Multiple DTDs
Source Material Challenges
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• Develop an overall specification, with allowance for change as new scenarios are uncovered
• Software development sprints to incorporate changes
• Close collaboration with OSA to manage new situations affecting completed work and work in process
2) Build Flexibility and Collaboration into the Conversion Process
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Tools Used to Retain Flexibility
• Client-Vendor collaboration for decision making
• Hub and Spoke processing
• Handling of conversion anomalies
• Quality assurance reviews
• Learning databanks
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3)There’s a Lot of Detail – Keep It Simple
• Fitting structures into the existing JATS tagging structure
• CALS to HTML table conversion
• MathML line break retention
• Cross-reference ranges
• Rendering limitations
• Unexpected content scenarios
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Cross-Reference Ranges• Bibliographic
• Figure
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Rendering Limitations
• No CSS support for table character alignmentPDF: HTML:
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• Missing text - Printed page problems
Unexpected Content Scenarios
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• Jumping pages
Unexpected Content Scenarios (cont.)
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• Special characters with no corresponding Unicode
Unexpected Content Scenarios (cont.)
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<body> <boxed-text> <sec> <title>Optical Activities in Industry</title> <p>66 Summer Street, North Brookfield, Mass. Mr. Cooke welcomes news and comments for this column which should be sent to him at the above address</p> <p> <inline-graphic xlink:href="ao-8-4-792-i001"/></p> </sec> </boxed-text>
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• Non-standard Structure
Unexpected Content Scenarios (cont.)
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Unexpected Content Scenarios (cont.)
• White space filler
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• Visual review
• OSA Schematron
• Reporting stylesheets
• OCR and hyphenation spellchecker software
• QA software
• Learning databanks
4) Keep Checking Quality – Don’t Get Too Far Ahead
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• Correct entities are used
• Math displays correctly
• Table alignment is accurate
• Images correspond to the source
Visual Review
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• The Schematron includes over 300 checks
Warning:ALERT [LJF:RGCO250]: ref 'b10': unpublished materials must have @publication-type='other' ($unpublished and @publication-type != 'communication' and @publication-type != 'other' / warning) [report]
Warning:ALERT [LJF:JBCO140]: no tables found but title reads 'Figures and Tables' (matches(title, 'Table') and not(exists(table-wrap)) / warning) [report]
ERROR [LJF:RGCO250]: ref 'b14': journal citation contains more than one article-title (count(article-title) > 1) [report]
OSA Schematron
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• Highlight any discrepancies between the specifications and the tagging
• Identify suspicious start of a paragraph
• Flag missing external files associated with the XML
• Find missing cross references to specified structures such as Tables and Figures
DCL QA Software
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Hyphenation Spellchecker
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• Provides easier review of metadata components for a set of articles
Reporting Stylesheets
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• Modified versions of the fonts designed to help distinguish between similar looking characters – “O” vs “0”, “Z” vs “2”, “1” vs “l” used within the proofreading phase
OCR Tools
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Ongoing updates made based on feedback and newly determined rules and structures
• Conversion software
• QA software
• Schematron
• Spellchecker and hyphenation software
• Editorial guidelines
• Image creation
Learning Databanks
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Conclusions
OSA has nearly completed a large backfile conversion project in close coordination with DCL. The project, which is based around NLM markup, has allowed OSA to enhance its publishing platform, build derivative products, and significantly improve its ability to gather business intelligence from a deep journal backfile. We offer the following lessons learned:
• With large content projects, plan ahead but prepare to work in an agile fashion
• The content owner should stay engaged throughout the project to align real-time decisions with business aims
• Owner–vendor collaboration—when the right partners are involved—improves morale, attention to detail, and decision-making
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Scott DineenSr. Director Publishing Production & Technol.The Optical [email protected]
Devorah AshlemSenior Project ManagerData Conversion [email protected]