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Subject: [announce] Oasis Memeber News
Dutch Library for Audio and Braille to use WorX™ in Producing Digital Talking Books CHICAGO, Ill. – Nov. 19, 2001 – HyperVision, Ltd. today announces that its Dutch partner, Mediasystemen, has recommended WorX as a key component for use in a Dutch public service program that enhances and distributes literary content to the blind and visually impaired. Mediasystemen, headquartered in Haarlem, is developing the XML-based content management system in cooperation with the Dutch Library for Audio and Braille (NLBB) in The Hague. Currently NLBB editors use Microsoft Word and other applications to digitize books and re-publish them to Braille, audio, large print and the "Braille computer line." The NLBB is not yet using an Internet channel that could provide the widest, most cost-effective access to its enhanced book content. The NLBB recognized XML as the markup language of choice for handling the multiple output formats it already uses and as a facilitator in establishing a future Internet channel. Its project team also located and modified a new XML schema standard, the "Digital Talking Book," to govern its XML content. Mediasystemen was called in to recommend the best products and methods for authoring, transforming and storing the XML content. Consultants determined that WorX was the best authoring and editing tool due to its high degree of functionality with Word and its ability to create valid, well-formed XML without extensive user training. Time and capital savings from the new system are expected to enable the NLBB to publish to new, additional output channels. As the body of NLBB content in XML grows, an Internet channel is planned to give the broadest possible access to enhanced media through its high capacity and low cost. Mediasystemen (www.mediasys.nl), a Triple P company, provides cross media solutions to publishers, enabling data presentation across a variety of platforms ranging from print to the Internet. Mediasystemen consultants focus on maximizing workflow productivity, efficiency and accuracy within organizations such as newspapers, magazines, corporate publishers and advertising agencies. HyperVision, Ltd. (www.hvltd.com) has developed WorX for Word to let authors be experts in their business, not in XML. Working closely with Word, WorX maximizes the business author's comfort and productivity while taking advantage of existing assets in technology and training. HyperVision’s overriding goal is to develop tools that can produce valid and well-formed XML from almost any corporate desktop. XML data generated from WorX is easily re-purposed to media ranging from web to print to wireless, expediting enterprise content management. US clients using or recommending WorX include KPMG Consulting, the State of California, XyEnterprise and Lighthouse Solutions. International clients include Mediasystemen in the Netherlands. Contact: Kirstin Rogers HyperVision, Ltd. 230 E. Ohio, Suite 210 Chicago, IL, 60611 krogers@hvltd.com Phone: 312-274-1206 / Fax: 312-274-1228
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