Recent advances in information technology have radically and permanently changed the face of the publishing industry, allowing information to be distributed, indexed, and searched instantaneously in electronic format. Free, electronic journals have proliferated, placing severe competitive strains on traditional publishers.
To succeed in this environment, publishing companies must find ways to provide value-added, interactive features to digitized materials and fast, targeted text-search capability. GGA's content specialists and data technicians have extensive experience converting data from paper-based sources into software products, as well as converting PDF materials into text-searchable formats, while adhering to rigorous quality control standards.
For a widely read, weekly national magazine, GGA designed and created a Web database system to store articles spanning the entire 135 years of the magazine’s continuous publication. GGA converted the articles into a text-searchable digital format, entered those articles into the database, and developed easy-to-use search tools for the system. These search tools allow the magazine’s on-line readers to query the database, list every article related to the query, and then instantly retrieve those articles.
For a large scientific publishing company, GGA designed and created a database product on optical properties, based on a five-volume handbook. For this project, GGA scanned and edited more than 4,000 pages of scientific tables, graphs, and text, and then converted the complex data into HTML. GGA also developed comprehensive computation, data analysis, and visualization tools to work on the database.
For a natural-language processing company, GGA designed and built a mission-critical system for developing a universal interlingua. This system included tools for building multilingual concepts, mapping lexical items to those concepts, and inflecting word forms in all of the supported languages.