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Developments in
Production Outsourcing
  • DLF Panel
  • October 26th, 2004
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History of Information: Apex
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Keying Developments
  • Good News
  • Geographical diversity
  • Stable technology
    • Non-keyboard characters
    • Production tools
  • Stable vendors
  • Cheaper
  • Bad News
  • Labor standards
  • Quality semi-variable
  • No replacement technology
  • Intensive tagging = more quality risk
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OCR Developments
  • Good News
  • Stable
    • Voting technology
    • Confidence levels
    • Language coverage
  • External aids
    • Lexical
    • Zoning tools
    • Search engines advances
    • Image improvement technology
    • Cleaning tools
  • Bad News
  • No major internal advances
    • Non-keyboard characters
  • Training
  • Flexibility over inconsistent material
  • Marketplace confusion
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Indexing Developments
  • Good News
  • Deeper offshore:
    • Subject specialists
    • Interactive
    • Research
    • Western cultural affinity
  • Indexing automation
    • Consistent format
    • Born electronic
    • Software assisted manual indexing
  • DOI opportunities
  • Bad News
  • Automated solutions
    • Unstable technology
    • Archives often inconsistent
    • Difficult choices
  • Onshore shortage of trained people
  • Offshore requires critical mass
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Competitive Analysis
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Alternative Automated Indexing Methods
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Other Developments
  • Politics of outsourcing
  • Institutional repositories
  • Worlds of publishing-creation/libraries-storage                coming together
    • eScholarship
  • Integrated workflows
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