Interesting New Approach
December 2, 2004
Data Conversion Labs (DCL) has announced a new service, Harmonizer, which analyzes existing content sets for redundancy. As they describe the offering in their web site:
[The] Harmonizer&tm; content reuse service from DCL measures and eliminates redundant data from document sets. This unique system checks for duplicate content (and “near duplicates”) and weeds out what you don’t need; it also harmonizes text and grammar variations to fit your standard. In short, Harmonizer™ clears the clutter in order to reduce costs, improve accuracy, and speed up turn-around.
In announcing the service, DCL revealed some research they had done into some content sets, with a 83.1% level of redundancy in one aerospace company’s maintenance manuals and 68.3% in a pharmaceutical firm’s product data. DCL President Mark Gross said, “”They are recreating text that has already been written - and are paying for the privilege!”
Well said! And real food for thought.
Posted by Bill Trippe at December 2, 2004 9:30 PM
