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Dutch
Library for Audio and Braille to use WorX™ in Producing Digital
Talking Books
CHICAGO,
Ill. – Nov. 26, 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. HyperVision is currently seeking both investors
and additional channel partners in the US and abroad.
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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