White Papers

WHITE PAPERS

Our white papers offer helpful insights on
everything from knowledge management to
outsourcing editorial services.

Information scientists, architects and analysts from Innodata Isogen are among the principal drivers of evolutionary advancement - get helpful insights from true thoughts leaders with a penchant for sharing.

The following white papers are available in (PDF) format.

New White Paper

• eBooks at the Crossroads: Which Way Forward?

Recent White Papers

• Outsourcing Content Origination and Authoring: Closing the Publishing Loop
• Beyond Cost Arbitrage: Best Practices for Delivering Large-Scale Editorial Outsourcing Services
• Don’t Flatline in a Flat World: Agile Publishing Strategies for Product Development and Content Manufacturing
• A Post-Hype Playbook: Compete to Win in the eBook Marketplace
• Technical Writing: Reducing Costs Drives Competitive Advantage for Savvy Companies
• Don’t Break the Link: Avoid Four Costly Pitfalls in Linking and Reuse
• Composition Services Outsourcing: Balancing Onshore and Offshore Resources
• Get Ready for DITA: Bypass Four Costly Roadblocks
• A Question of Style: Taking Outsourced Page Composition to a Higher Level
• Untangle Your Information: Four Steps to Integrating Knowledge with Topic Maps
• Don’t Get Caught Offshore with the Wrong Partner: Seven Tips for Selecting the Best Outsourcing Partner
• Outsourcing Editorial Services… Seven Tips for Reducing Costs and Improving Quality
• Turn SPL into a Business Advantage...
  Three Pitfalls to Avoid on the Road to Successful Compliance
• Rich Data Products… Five Steps for Building New and Self-Sustaining Revenue Streams
• Optimizing the Content Supply Chain

Globalization, Localization & Supply Chain

• Reducing Localization & Globalization Costs With XML-Based Technology
• Found in the Wild: Hunting XML CMS Anti-Patterns
• A 21st Century Approach to Large-Scale Content Management

Publishing

• Using XSL Formatting Objects to Generate Print-Quality Documents
• An XML-Based Approach to Textbook Publishing
• Internationalized Back-of-the-Book Indexes for XSL Formatting Objects

XML

• XML in a Distributed World: Exposing DOM/Groves Through CORBA
• Low−Cost XML−Aware Search Capable of Complex Querying: A Case Study
• The XML Learning Framework
• From Architectures to Authoring DTDs - A Fairy Tale
• DTD Testing: Find the Devils in the Details
• CALS Table & XML Authoring
• Using UML To Define XML Document Types

SGML

• Putting Together an SGML Business Case
• <TAG> Business Case Article
• SGML Database Management and Electronic Commerce System
• A Tutorial Introduction to SGML Architecture
• Managing SGML Architectures and Object Models with Groves
• An Approach to Literate Programming With SGML Architectures
• The SGML Storage Model
• Software Component Interface Description (SCID) in SGML
• Strategies for DSSSL Code Reuse
• Re-Usable SGML: Why I Demand Subdoc

Linking & Versioning

• XSL and Hyperdocuments: Applying XSL to Arbitrary Groves and Hyperdocuments
• Versioned Hyperdocuments: Support for Lifecycle Models
• SnapCM: An Abstract Model for Configuration Management and Version Control
• I've Got an SGML Database - Why Do I Need HyTime?
• What's New and Cool in HyTime
• Implementing a Transparent HyTime System for Authors
• Version Management as Hypertext Application: Referent Tracking Documents

Knowledge Management

• Saving The Enterprise: Harvesting Knowledge from your Organization's Information Assets
• Topic Maps: Business Objects In Disguise
• Topic Map Applications in the Real World
• Knowledge Management through Groves in a PDM System
• Automated Knowledge Mining: Can You Dig It?
• Implementing Topic Maps... 4 Crucial Steps to Succesful Enterprise Knowledge Management

Training & Education

• The XML Learning Framework