[announce] OASIS Member News: XyEnterprise's XML ProfessionalPublisher Automates Production of R. R. Bowker's Books In Print

[Joy Blake Scott <joy@longleafpr.com>]

XyEnterprise’s XML Professional Publisher Automates Production of R. R.
Bowker's Books In Print*

Production Time and Costs Reduced; Readability, Usefulness of Bibliographic
Volumes Enhanced

READING, MA - Oct. 29, 2002 - XyEnterprise, the leading developer of XML
content management and enterprise publishing solutions, announced today that
R.R. Bowker, a leading publisher of bibliographic information, selected and
employed Version 7.1 of the XyEnterprise XML Professional Publisher (XPP) to
produce the 2003 edition of R.R. Bowker’s flagship bibliographic resource,
Books In Print*.

Publishing the vast amount of information in the Books In Print database
(which contains more than 3.5 million records) is a daunting task.  Previous
editions of the print version consisted of nine very large physical volumes,
each containing nearly 3000 pages.  For the 2003 edition, Bowker wanted to
speed up production, reduce the number of volumes published, and increase
the accessibility and usefulness of the information to end users.

“We wanted to move to a way of producing Books In Print where we could
extract the records listed by title from the database, compose the pages of
the “title” volumes, and then produce the corresponding “author” volumes
with cross-references to titles,” says Gordon MacPherson, Production
Director at R.R. Bowker. “At the same time, it was critical that we be able
to process the huge volume of data quickly and efficiently.”

Bowker selected XyEnterprise’s XPP in large part for its ability to extract
cross-reference information from one document and construct a new document
with that information displayed in sorted form.  This capability of the XPP
application, called CITI, is the way tables of contents and indexes are
constructed in more ordinary documents.  Using information extracted from
the Books In Print database, XPP first composed the “title” volumes, and
then CITI component extracted the data needed to create the “author”
listings, complete with full references to the pages on which the author
listings are found in the title volumes.

MacPherson says that XPP has helped Bowker meet all of its goals for the
2003 edition of Books in Print. The number of volumes was reduced from nine
to eight, which translates into significant costs savings in production.
Processing time also decreased enormously - what had previously taken three
to four weeks was accomplished via CITI in a matter of days.  And for end
users, the specific page references to the title entries in the author
volumes are a huge benefit for cross-referencing between volumes.

“We have found a strong technology partner in XyEnterprise” says MacPherson.
“XPP has proven to be scalable, robust and flexible, and will continue to be
a publishing workhorse we rely upon.”

Learn more about XPP and how industry leaders are using XPP software to
solve XML and enterprise publishing challenges at XyEnterprise’s free
Webinar, “XML to PDF Autopublishing: A Business Case Study Review” presented
on Wednesday November 6 at 2 PM Eastern. Jon Parsons of XyEnterprise will
highlight the business payback achieved by XPP customers in markets ranging
from technical documentation, journals and periodicals, automotive, and
legal publishing.

About R.R. Bowker

Founded in 1872, R.R. Bowker, a Cambridge Information Group company, is
North America’s leading provider of bibliographic information, and is also
the official agency for assigning ISBNs in the United States.  The company’s
flagship product, Books In Print*, is available on the Internet at
www.booksinprint.com <http://www.booksinprint.com/>, on CD-ROM and in
hardbound print format.  The Web-based version of Global Books In Print™ is
located at www.globalbooksinprint.com <http://www.globalbooksinprint.com/>.
For more information, please visit www.bowker.com <http://www.bowker.com/>
or call 1-888-BOWKER2 (1-888-269-5372).

About XyEnterprise

Xyvision Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (XyEnterprise) is the leading provider
of single source, multi-channel XML publishing solutions.  Its XML content
management software - Content@ - and its automated XML publishing engine -
XPP - power sophisticated solutions for global leaders in the publishing,
technical documentation, financial, government, and e-Learning arenas.  Its
customers include Boeing, Bureau of National Affairs, Gulfstream, IBM,
Thomson and Thomson, Sun Microsystems, LexisNexis, and many others.  For
more information, please contact XyEnterprise at 781.756.4400 or
www.xyenterprise.com <http://www.xyenterprise.com/>.

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