Application DevelopmentMost recently, TNQ set up an offshore development centre for an American publishing services company. This is a culmination of years of partnership between the two companies in jointly delivering pre-publishing services to some of the most prestigious American society publishers. The ODC will gradually offshore all of the customer's development, maintenance and support, and will be the primary hub for future joint initiatives that target the American market.

Publisher-focused application development is a mature practice at TNQ. For a UK-based publisher with editorial resources distributed worldwide, we developed a freelance management solution, now in Version 2, which we maintain and support. In engagements such as this, our customers enjoy the fact that we do not need too much briefing, or lengthy phases of requirements gathering and definition. Basically our domain depth translates to cost efficiency and time to market.

To control the quality of XML, we built a client application for a Netherlands-based global leader in STM publishing. It substantially improved quality and productivity. We have enhanced the application in a subsequent release, building a satellite over the base system to let users enrich the content with semantic tagging. Applications that we develop may be production-oriented or author-facing. A development of the latter type is a cast-off calculator, commissioned for one of the most prestigious American journals. The application resides in the journal's submission system, picks up the submitted manuscript, paginates it on the fly and shows to authors whether their submission has exceeded the page limit or not.

ReengineeringOur publishing software services practice began when we took over a legacy application that had been entrusted to another vendor, a much larger,

well-established company, we must add. It was our David vs. Goliath moment. We took it over, reengineered it in a more contemporary technology idiom, making it lighter and more easily futurable. It is an XML validation tool that the publisher's entire production output has to pass through. This enormously important application is continuously enhanced and supported by TNQ, for seven years now.

Maintenance and Support

All applications ever developed or reengineered by TNQ have stayed with us for subsequent maintenance, support, and in many cases, enhancement. The level of support is customer-calibrated. There is live support when needed. A significant aspect of this line of service is our production support. Very often, TNQ is the go-to vendor for large rollouts involving a novelty in the production process. We are in the advanced stages of pilot for 24-hour article production. We are into Phase 2 of a very large experiment to revolutionise the way STM content is produced, used and shared.

Projects

A validation solution that quality checks for contrast between IN/OUT dataset, XML, EPUB, RDF XML, artwork and PDF files. The solution integrates the DTD/Schema parser and performs other well-defined checks.

A tool that helps XML to be quality checked (JA/Book), and in processing annotated files to create a benchmark reference standard.

This application renders a single book item, such as a chapter or an fb-non-chapter, as well as a single journal item, such as a full-length article, a book review, or an erratum. It can also render a book project file, a journal issue, an abstract issue, add-on items, and a dataset package file (dataset.xml) as web pages.

A vocabulary coverage checker designed to verify the terms of skos: Concept of Specialties

Vocabulary, as well as native RDF SKOS files and terms in the rdf-namespace elements of the XHTML or RDF or XML or JSON.

This utility retrieves vocabularies using a REST API allows the data to be saved as XML, CSV or HTML.

A basic validation filter for checking the contents of zip inputs, for the existence of dataset.xml, fp, errors, warnings, skipped-checks, checksum comparison of files with fp. Also for Splitting and Extraction of zip files based on content type present in the dataset.xml

A tool to help fulfill requests for an XSLT stylesheet that transforms an output file into an input file for downstream consumption. The stylesheet accepts a delta/order file as well.

An application that assists in the creation of a truncated file (XML + Satellite) from its original version. It also acts in creating a representative sample that can be easily loaded and evaluated using another tool.

A tool that verifies and upgrades an input annotation file, so that the concept details are aligned with the latest thesaurus.

A viewer for XHTML, developed to perform all the main functionalities of an earlier build but without 'split XML' and 'Convert Images' options.

A tool, which is an add-on to Microsoft Word, and used to compare word files in batch. Word documents in .doc, .docx & .rtf formats can be compared using this add-on.

A Quality Assessment and Analysis Tool for

comparison, monitoring and improvement of Automatic (and Manual) Indexing Systems

Tool for verification of thexistence of unprocessed elements in XML files through XPATH and reporting of the same with a few classifications

A tool to categorize the terms present in automated (AUT) and manual (REF) RDF XML files such as union of distinct category terms and common terms between these two inputs

A tool for XML files to be rendered as a web page

A combination of features to help view annotation satellite (RDF XML) files along with journal/book XML, cropper output XML files to check the quality of annotation satellite, and create benchmark standard.

An application to cast-off content and calculate its readiness for end use

An application to paginate both complex word-based documents, and InDesign content

A workflow tool to maintain and manage a directory of freelancers, assign tasks, provide supporting files, and track status.

Contact: info@tnq.co.in www.tnq.co.in

Software Services totransform STM publishing

Application DevelopmentMost recently, TNQ set up an offshore development centre for an American publishing services company. This is a culmination of years of partnership between the two companies in jointly delivering pre-publishing services to some of the most prestigious American society publishers. The ODC will gradually offshore all of the customer's development, maintenance and support, and will be the primary hub for future joint initiatives that target the American market.

Publisher-focused application development is a mature practice at TNQ. For a UK-based publisher with editorial resources distributed worldwide, we developed a freelance management solution, now in Version 2, which we maintain and support. In engagements such as this, our customers enjoy the fact that we do not need too much briefing, or lengthy phases of requirements gathering and definition. Basically our domain depth translates to cost efficiency and time to market.

To control the quality of XML, we built a client application for a Netherlands-based global leader in STM publishing. It substantially improved quality and productivity. We have enhanced the application in a subsequent release, building a satellite over the base system to let users enrich the content with semantic tagging. Applications that we develop may be production-oriented or author-facing. A development of the latter type is a cast-off calculator, commissioned for one of the most prestigious American journals. The application resides in the journal's submission system, picks up the submitted manuscript, paginates it on the fly and shows to authors whether their submission has exceeded the page limit or not.

ReengineeringOur publishing software services practice began when we took over a legacy application that had been entrusted to another vendor, a much larger,

well-established company, we must add. It was our David vs. Goliath moment. We took it over, reengineered it in a more contemporary technology idiom, making it lighter and more easily futurable. It is an XML validation tool that the publisher's entire production output has to pass through. This enormously important application is continuously enhanced and supported by TNQ, for seven years now.

Maintenance and Support

All applications ever developed or reengineered by TNQ have stayed with us for subsequent maintenance, support, and in many cases, enhancement. The level of support is customer-calibrated. There is live support when needed. A significant aspect of this line of service is our production support. Very often, TNQ is the go-to vendor for large rollouts involving a novelty in the production process. We are in the advanced stages of pilot for 24-hour article production. We are into Phase 2 of a very large experiment to revolutionise the way STM content is produced, used and shared.

Projects

A validation solution that quality checks for contrast between IN/OUT dataset, XML, EPUB, RDF XML, artwork and PDF files. The solution integrates the DTD/Schema parser and performs other well-defined checks.

A tool that helps XML to be quality checked (JA/Book), and in processing annotated files to create a benchmark reference standard.

This application renders a single book item, such as a chapter or an fb-non-chapter, as well as a single journal item, such as a full-length article, a book review, or an erratum. It can also render a book project file, a journal issue, an abstract issue, add-on items, and a dataset package file (dataset.xml) as web pages.

A vocabulary coverage checker designed to verify the terms of skos: Concept of Specialties

Vocabulary, as well as native RDF SKOS files and terms in the rdf-namespace elements of the XHTML or RDF or XML or JSON.

This utility retrieves vocabularies using a REST API allows the data to be saved as XML, CSV or HTML.

A basic validation filter for checking the contents of zip inputs, for the existence of dataset.xml, fp, errors, warnings, skipped-checks, checksum comparison of files with fp. Also for Splitting and Extraction of zip files based on content type present in the dataset.xml

A tool to help fulfill requests for an XSLT stylesheet that transforms an output file into an input file for downstream consumption. The stylesheet accepts a delta/order file as well.

An application that assists in the creation of a truncated file (XML + Satellite) from its original version. It also acts in creating a representative sample that can be easily loaded and evaluated using another tool.

A tool that verifies and upgrades an input annotation file, so that the concept details are aligned with the latest thesaurus.

A viewer for XHTML, developed to perform all the main functionalities of an earlier build but without 'split XML' and 'Convert Images' options.

A tool, which is an add-on to Microsoft Word, and used to compare word files in batch. Word documents in .doc, .docx & .rtf formats can be compared using this add-on.

A Quality Assessment and Analysis Tool for

comparison, monitoring and improvement of Automatic (and Manual) Indexing Systems

Tool for verification of thexistence of unprocessed elements in XML files through XPATH and reporting of the same with a few classifications

A tool to categorize the terms present in automated (AUT) and manual (REF) RDF XML files such as union of distinct category terms and common terms between these two inputs

A tool for XML files to be rendered as a web page

A combination of features to help view annotation satellite (RDF XML) files along with journal/book XML, cropper output XML files to check the quality of annotation satellite, and create benchmark standard.

An application to cast-off content and calculate its readiness for end use

An application to paginate both complex word-based documents, and InDesign content

A workflow tool to maintain and manage a directory of freelancers, assign tasks, provide supporting files, and track status.

Contact: info@tnq.co.in www.tnq.co.in

I think Proof Central runs well and has proven to be reliable. Also here, I think TNQ is doing a good job.- from the customer-side Product Manager of Proof Central

The software has been well received by our authors and has proven to be reliable for the vast majority of articles– from the technology management team of the world’s most pedigreed Chemistry journal

I would actually give a 9.6 to this area of quality satisfaction and reliability.

- from the Senior Manager of Supplier Processes and Systems of the world’s largest STM publisher