Publishing Sevices
Datamatics offers the entire gamut of services and processes for managing content through its life cycle from creation to archival. We have domain expertise in legal, financial, educational, regulatory and scientific content and use technology as an aid towards delivering complete customer satisfaction.
We serve a wide variety of publishers, which include:
- Education
- Legal
- Trade
- Academic
- Comics and Manga
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- STM
- Directories
Our expertise lies in producing:
- Books
- Journals
- Magazines
- Newsletters
- Directories
- Catalogs
- Loose leaflets
Our service offerings can be used as a whole or piecemeal to fit your requirements, and are outlined below.
Content Design Services
Datamatics Content Design services include:
- Template Design
- Composition
- Rebranding
We have expertise in working at various complexity levels:
- Single column to multiple columns
- Single color to four-color
- Plain text to heavy math and complex design
- Tables, charts, and figures
We design our products using both Mac and PC platforms with any of the following typesetting engines and offer a first XML workflow.
- Adobe ® Indesign ®
- Quark ®
- Advent 3B2 ®
- Adobe ® Framemaker ®
- LaTeX
The choice of the workflow, platform, and engine is linked to the requirements of the customer and the nature of the product.
Content Editorial Services
Datamatics editorial services include:
- Copyediting
- Abstraction
- Indexing
- Editorial Proofreading
Copyediting
Our editorial team is comprised of highly dedicated and experienced professionals whose experience range from subbing newspapers to editing periodicals, books and journals. Our editors are drawn from diverse academic disciplines, including law, finance, medicine, science, humanities, journalism, and English literature, with a minimum qualification of Masters in their respective disciplines. This enables us to edit any kind of content, efficiently and efficaciously.
Although each editor is exposed to various facets of editing, based on his or her expertise and specialization, an editor is assigned specific tasks to ensure work is error free while transforming raw manuscript into a professional document.
- Content Editing: Verify factual inaccuracies and inconsistencies and revise or rewrite content or query the author based on the level of editing required and the client’s brief.
- Language Editing: Concentrate on correcting errors in grammar, spelling, usage, and syntax.
- Mechanical Editing and Type Coding: Focus on ensuring that the manuscript adheres to editorial style, house style and style sheet, and type codes for various elements to identify different parts in a manuscript.
Together, the process and team leads have decades of experience in editing. Our editors have a wide range of experience, which includes editing of content for STM, humanities, law journals and books, and school and college books and journals. They have rich experience in working with various styles be it Chicago or APA style or in-house style guides or Bluebook referencing. Some of our editors also have to their credit the experience of working as content developers-cum-editors.
Abstraction Services
Datamatics has a team of abstractors who are domain experts in the fields of chemistry, engineering, literature, finance, medicine, life sciences, etc. This team produces precise and useful abstracts that enhance the customer’s product, enabling the customer to maintain an edge over competitors.
Our team of subject experts can provide abstraction services be it technical or legal documents. Abstract types we provide are:
- Indicative Abstracts
- Informative Abstracts
- Patent Analysis and Abstracts
We currently abstract and index content for several aggregators on subjects as diverse as wildlife, technology, sociology, politics, literary works and news.
Indexing Services
Datamatics has substantial experience in indexing and has a team of indexers who work across various subject matters and disciplines. We offer indexing using controlled vocabulary and other classification systems.
Our indexes add value to the customer’s repository by making it more user-friendly and by reducing the time spent in searching and retrieval of required data.
We offer the following types of indexing services:
- Structured indexing
- KWIC indexing
- Concept-based keyword indexing
- Metadata creation, bibliographic indexing
- Medical indexing
- Image indexing
- Back-of-the-book indexing
Our indexers also work through dedicated VPN links on client servers for instant updation of client databases.
Content Conversion Services
Datamatics has two decades of experience in data conversion, executing various projects in HTML, SGML, XML, and other proprietary mark-up languages. Our web-based solutions include designing the repository, hosting the content, and creating graphical user search interfaces.
Our automation tools based on artificial intelligence guarantee quality and accuracy levels that exceed customer expectations. These tools and technologies help us to handle wide volume fluctuations and enhance the speed at which we can process these volumes.
Further, these productivity aids are configurable for various DTDs, XSDs and mark-up formats, reducing the setup time for conversion projects. Datamatics guarantees semantic conformance of the mark-up. To facilitate this, we have domain experts who work with our project delivery teams.
Some of the domains in which we have extensive experience are:
- Legal
- Automotive & Aerospace
- Financial
- Travel
- STM Regulatory
Data Capture
Datamatics uses keyboarding and OCR scanning for data capture. Through our blended shore delivery model, scanning of documents is done at offshore sites and other processes are executed at Indian sites. This helps us to meet exacting schedules, some of which even stipulate a two-hour turnaround. Our quality range for data content capture is from 99.995 to 99.997% accuracy and is related to customer requirements. Our experience in the industry is testimony to our capabilities in the field of data capture.
Data Coding & Mark-up
Datamatics has expertise in handling high volume conversion projects, including front end to legacy conversions. Our conversion projects include coding in HTML, SGML, XML, and proprietary mark-up languages from hard copy or soft copy sources.
Datamatics continuously develops indigenous solutions based on artificial intelligence to ensure high quality output in reduced time spans. Our unique operations model and tracking mechanism allows constant monitoring of the project and ensures increased efficiency.
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