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eContent Development

eContent Classification

Taxonomy/Schema Services

eCCP™

eContent Classification

The ability to effectively utilize product information from multiple sources and re-distribute that information at will often depends on a robust centralized categorization structure and product definition.

VSAP’s EDD integrates the efforts of highly skilled domain experts with a collaborative process that fine-tunes product information until it meets all of a client's classification needs.

eContent Classification services of VSAP’s EDD ensure compliance to four-level hierarchical classification system as UNSPSC, eCl@ss etc; flat, industry-neutral classification systems as Requisite Unifying Structure (RUS); and, other classification schemas and content standards such as Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV), UNSPSC, NIGP or other taxonomy specified by our customer.

In order for you to ensure the correct classification - as well as the correct version required by your customer, you need a well-qualified team that has expert domain experience to classify your catalog and maintain it the way you intend to.

eContent Claensing

VSAP’s EDD, utilizing valuable experience acquired across a range of domains, carries out content cleansing on catalog data irrespective of the format and can turn out the output either in XLS, Access, CSV, CUP, CIF, cXML, OEX, XML, BMECat etc., or in any other format that you, the customer specify..

The VSAP’s data cleansing service results in:

Attribute Extraction from various sources (data enhancement)
De-Duplication;
Abbreviation Expansion;
Data Normalization. And:
Standardization and ordering of description.

This, in turn, would ensure your data to be in compliance to quality certification standards and enables you to enhance your business.

eContent Enrichment

VSAP professionals, with their extensive and pertinent experience in schema design and development in MRO, Mechanical, IT and Life Sciences domains, can provide you with rich and attributed quality catalog content in these domains. The information would be sourced from supplier or manufacturer websites and also by contacting them for their paper catalogs and product brochures; apart from which other tested-true strategies and proven methodologies would be resorted to.

VSAP’s EDD is studded with professionals specialized in onsite sourcing of parts information. They’d executed several on-site projects and gained valuable expertise thereby. The information is sourced from various sources within the plant like Stores, Item Master, Purchase orders/requisitions, Codification rules, Tags, Nameplates, Catalogs, etc. Additionally, the items are physically assessed and measured to gather technical data.

eContent Creation

VSAP can create electronic content, rich to the extent you specify, for you from your hardcopy catalogs as well as from the softcopy ones in formats such as PDF, XLS, CSV, text etc. and can render the output in the format you require like, OEX XML, CUP, CIF, cXML text etc.

VSAP adopts tested true strategies to ensure utmost quality and originality in creating your electronic catalog.

Putting to work pertinent scanning facilities, VSAP preserves and enhances all your images and drawings in creating rich content for you.
Identifying missing data elements, duplicate fields and other structural faults with the original catalog as well as the resultant electronic content would be thoroughly carried out.
To ensure consistency in and accuracy of the catalog content creation process, VSAP deploys expedient software tools and pertinent personnel, by dint of which 99.995% accuracy of the resultant electronic content; 100% accurate linking of images to products; and, 100% accurate supplier hierarchies etc., would, just, turn out to be true.

Data Digitization

Digitization represents the future for the library and the publishing community. VSAP’s EDD offers cost effective methodologies to create, convert and structure text and images into digital formats to support publishing and digital library projects.

VSAP’s EDD offers end-to-end, large-scale digitization services to

Publishers
Academic institutions
Content aggregators
Newspapers
Libraries
Corporate organizations

These services, that too the way we provide them, address your need for electronically available content and historical archives. We possess significant experience in delivering end-to-end digital content needs while meeting the core objective of enabling large amounts of content on the web that is:

Visually accurate versus the source documents
Textually accurate to the content in the source documents
Easily searchable and accessible

`Digital Text/Digital Images

Digitizing the text in various forms results in a multiple number of uses, such as;

Creating an access point to a digital image
Creating subject indexes
Capturing full text of the document

VSAP’s EDD focuses on coding formats such as SGML, HTML, XML, XPAT, EAD and TEI Lite. We also work to create customizable workflow for special proprietary coding formats. This ensures structure to the content.

Digital Images represent a special challenge to the conversion process. These images may be in varying degrees of quality. Depending on age or possibly environmental conditions, some images may require special attention. VSAP’s EDD can create digital images from a variety of input materials such as index cards, paper documents (various sizes and conditions), photos, drawings, slides, microfilm and microfiche.

Data Conversion & Data Enablement

We provide these data conversion and data enablement services through the application of sophisticated workflow technology and large teams of highly trained data professionals.

Data Conversion involves the conversion of information from one medium to another. VSAP’s EDD can convert and extract information from almost any medium and enable it to any customer-required medium and format.

You might need any/all of the Data Conversion categories, viz.,

Paper to scanned images
Microfilm to scanned images
Scanned images to text and graphics conversion
Paper to electronic text conversion
Migration from one format to another
Legacy database migration

Data Enablement involves rendering the information produced into a customer-desired format, such as:

SGML/XML/SHTML coded data
Images with searchable text
PDFs with searchable text
Index Databases

VSAP’s EDD has successfully leveraged these services to provide solutions to customers with a broad range of needs, such as:

Scientific Journals
Electronic Conversion of Books for on-line enablement
eBooks
Digitization of Newspapers, Magazines and other Media Sources
Legal Documents and Journals
Financial Services Content Extraction

These services are backed by our large scalable infrastructure, quality commitment and singular focus on customer satisfaction. Project management teams closely coordinate and integrate with the customers to ensure that we meet and exceed the customers project requirements.

Whether the project involves text or images, VSAP’s EDD deploys a step-by-step consultative approach to determine the best methodology for delivering a high quality end product. VSAP’s EDD will work closely with you, the client to determine special requirements and setting a timetable for the project.

Taxonomy/Schema Services

Our team of taxonomy experts can build, conforming to and complying with your own needs and standards, a schema specific to your domain, be it MRO, Life Sciences, Chemicals, IT or

Aerospace. The schema constitutes category codes, category definitions, attributes, attribute definitions and cross-referenced to UNSPSC. We can also map your existing schema to UNSPSC or eCl@ss.

eCCP™ (eContent Conversion and Publishing)

VSAP can take up, in part on our customers, the tasks of format conversion and publishing.

We convert your existing eContent catalog data into any of the industry standard format viz., CSV, CUP, CIF, cXML, xCBL, BMECat etc. and also "publish" it to supplier's participating marketplace and maintain the content online -- putting to use the extensive experience prepossessed in publishing eContent to Oracle and CommerceOne platforms.

Digital Imaging

VSAP’s EDD utilizes state of the art Digital Imaging and High Resolution Scanning to produce product images for both print and web publishing. The images are produced to precise specifications and needs defined by our customers.