December 1, 2003 - Smithsonian Institution Selects Innodata Isogen for Important Digital Initiative

NEW YORK — INNODATA ISOGEN, INC. (NASDAQ: INOD), a leading provider of content supply chain solutions, today announced that it was selected by the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex, to digitally preserve and improve access to an important historical and research record.

The company will provide data conversion and XML services to the Smithsonian Institution Libraries for rare documents encompassing the complete record of The United States Exploring Expedition of 1838 to 1842, the first federally funded mission of exploration in U.S. history. The terms of the project were not disclosed.

Captain Charles Wilkes led the expedition to explore and chart the Pacific Ocean between 1838 and 1842, seeking to increase the safety of whalers, fishermen and other commercial vessels, and to add to the scientific knowledge of the flora and fauna of the Pacific. Among the accomplishments of the expedition were the charting of the Fiji Islands, the discovery that Antarctica was of continental size, and the mapping of the Columbia River region.

"We're delighted to apply our experience and talent to the Smithsonian's library conversion," said Peter B. Kaufman, Business Solutions Manager at Innodata Isogen. "The Wilkes expedition grew out of our 19th century sense of manifest destiny, and the record remains profoundly relevant today."

"Innodata Isogen's experience with important historical publications and complex library conversion projects will serve the Smithsonian well on this project," said Martin R. Kalfatovic, Head of the New Media Office and Digital Projects Librarian at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. "Their rapid alignment to our mission befits a true partnership. I'm impressed with their expertise and energy."

"Although revenues from this work will not be material to the company's results, we're pleased with this new relationship," noted Innodata Isogen CEO Jack Abuhoff, "and the opportunity to work on this important historical corpus."

About Smithsonian Institution Libraries
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries is a 20-branch system with online exhibitions, rare books, and information services online at www.sil.si.edu. The library catalog is available at www.siris.si.edu. The Libraries serves the Smithsonian and the general public with information and reference support. Its collections number 1.5 million volumes including 40,000 rare books, 2,000 manuscripts, 180,000 microfilm and microfiche. The Libraries also holds the nation's largest trade literature collection, which includes nearly 300,000 commercial catalogs dating from the 1850s and representing more than 30,000 companies.

About Innodata Isogen
Innodata Isogen (www.innodata-isogen.com) optimizes content supply chains, helping clients realize significant cost savings and productivity gains from operations, achieve better outcomes and compete more effectively in demanding global markets. Its solutions encompass virtually every activity necessary to create, use and distribute information products. Clients can choose from an array of integrated point solutions or simply outsource their entire content supply chain to Innodata Isogen.

The company, based in metro New York, has seven content solution centers and satellites in North America and Europe, seven certified content production facilities and a dedicated tools and technology center in Asia, together employing more than 7,000 content specialists worldwide.

Among its extensive roster of blue-chip clients are the world’s leading commercial publishers, Global 2000 enterprises, government agencies, and major archives, libraries and museums.

In 2001, Fortune and Business Week each rated the company as one of the 100 top-performing public companies in the U.S.

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Questions? Please contact:

Al Girardi
Innodata Isogen, Inc.
agirardi@innodata-isogen.com
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