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| DATA ANALYSIS & STANDARDIZATION
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Companies frequently do not have the resources
or expertise necessary to handle the data analysis, processing,
and consolidation effort required to enable the use of content
in a new content management or product catalog system. Usually,
the underlying cause is the diversity of content--information
resides in multiple formats, from text documents to databases,
spreadsheets, dtp files, images, video, and even audio.
We also offer document management and records repository solutions.
Our document management solutions allow you to repurpose information
in multiple formats. Our records management solutions allow
you to implement a management solution easily.
ThomasTech provides complete data analysis and conversion
services to help collect, standardize, and import product
information into a central data repository.
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| Data Analysis—for
Technical Publications, Books, or Journals |
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Unstructured data often exists in various
formats such as Interleaf, Quark, or Word that are neither
media-neutral nor standard throughout the organization. ThomasTech
will analyze your documents and produce a document structure
or DTD (Document Type Definition) that represents a standard
format for the document.
A DTD identifies what type of content can exist in a document.
For example, a DTD for a journal article may include a title,
byline, and body text that can contain multiple paragraphs.
Data is tagged for conversion to XML according to type such
as: headline, subhead, byline, callout, symbol, mathematical
equation, or caption. Tagging allows a composition system
to recognize the style associated with the data. Tagging data
also ensures that content published to the Web looks the way
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| Data Analysis—for
Product Catalogs |
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ThomasTech provides three levels of data
analysis: source data analysis, gap analysis, and product
line analysis.
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- In the source data analysis phase, ThomasTech
assesses your product information as it currently exists.
This may include existing databases, images, product catalogs,
documentation, technical drawings and pricing spreadsheets.
It is in this phase that we devise a plan for converting
the data to an acceptable electronic format, or importing
the data directly into the new system.
- In the gap analysis phase, ThomasTech identifies
the missing elements that may be required to fully populate
the central repository. This may include missing images,
descriptions, or technical information.
- During the product line analysis, ThomasTech
conducts interviews with product managers to gather information
concerning product families, features, and attributes.
This information will be used to create spreadsheet templates
that will be populated with the data to be imported into
the system.
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| Data Standardization and Conversion
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| Data |
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ThomasTech provides all of the services
necessary to prepare your data and images to be imported
into a central repository or database. For textual or
numerical data that is not currently in electronic format,
ThomasTech provides keyboarding, editorial, and scanning
services to manually enter information into a spreadsheet
or directly into a repository. For data that already
exists in electronic format, ThomasTech can automatically
import data into an acceptable format, or apply a script
to import the data directly into the new repository.
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| Images |
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Large publications or Web sites can
incorporate hundreds if not thousands of images. Frequently
the images a company needs are incomplete, in the improper
format, or are of poor quality. ThomasTech helps you
build a complete image set that is accessible for multiple
media. If you already have a complete set of images,
ThomasTech can help you index and store them in the
database. Should the images be in an incompatible format,
missing, or of insufficient quality, we provide services
such as scanning, conversion, and image manipulation
to create a usable image bank that can then be indexed
and stored in the new repository.
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