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Tuesday 15 May 2012

E-Publishing: An Emerging Trend

Computer data converted from one file type to another is known as document conversion or data conversion. It is the conversion of documents into digitized text. There are many data conversion services on the market that support a wide number of text, database, spreadsheet and graphics formats. With document conversion, documents can be automatically converted into PDF format, which reduces the potential risk of meta-data access and also assists to secure documents against any accidental or intentional changes by the recipient.

Online publishing or e-publishing means the creation and displaying of information on the Internet. This information can be in the form of plain text, pictures, movies or sound. As e-Publishing is an emerging trend, globally the focus is on delivering high value digital contents with robust search facility, for which there are data management services that provide the following solutions:

• Creating high value digital contents that are fully indexed & cross-referenced, searchable using their own search software.
• Data conversion to PDF, HTML, XML (including Meta-data creation).
• Providing search facility for all your journals /e contents with a single window search using our customizable search software, which will be DOI enabled & Open URL compliant.
• Linking facility & web-based search capabilities to search on various fields like journals, articles, TOC, keyword, Publisher, year etc.
• Ensuring secured authentication & access.
• Provides publishers with a comprehensive end-to-end conversion along with complete web-based search software.
• Indexing by Google and other search engines making content easily searchable.

By E-publishing, we mean the pre-press services of the publishing industry. Once the content for the publishing is ready, we convert that to printable PDF through various methods and phases such as Keyboarding, Scanning, Conversion of Document to XML or other digital / web formats, Graphic Designing, Typesetting, Proof Reading and Quality Checking.

Typesetting is the process of putting text into the right style and size of type and the desired arrangement on the page in preparation for printing. Typesetting was once the realm of skilled typesetters but today is handled by the designer, using desktop publishing software to set type. Typesetting is also known as text setting, type layout, text layout or text composition.

Typesetting includes:

• choosing specific typefaces and specifying font sizes and leading
• using typographical punctuation marks
• applying bold, italics, and other character formatting as needed
• arranging text in columns and formatting typographical visual signposts such as headlines, decks, and pull-quotes

Proofreading is reading a copy or proof for purposes of error detection and correction. It is a method to check misspelled words, typographical mistakes, and omitted words or word endings. Such errors can be difficult to spot in your own work because you may read what you intended to write, not what is actually on the page. You may either try proofreading out loud, articulating each word as it is actually written or may get in touch with data management services available in the market to do the work for you.

Be it data conversion, e-publishing or typesetting, data management services at BosoniTech provide them all.


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