ASTM International Chooses Scope for Enhanced Smart Content and MARC Cataloging Services

Online, August 29, 2012 (Newswire.com) - ASTM International, one of the largest voluntary standards developers worldwide, has engaged Scope eKnowledge Center to provide enhanced smart content services and MARC cataloging for its highly valued content. Previously, Scope had developed a domain-specific, multi-level taxonomy for the vast array of content within ASTM's Standards and Engineering Digital Library (SEDL). Scope also developed facets with a taxonomic structure to enable robust cross domain search, as well as created an expanded list of keywords to be mapped to the taxonomy and facets. ASTM has expanded its partnership with Scope to broaden these "smart content" services to include a Portuguese language version of the taxonomy, facets and keywords to enhance the discoverability of its content by its Brazilian end users. Additionally, Scope will catalog standards, e-books and journal issues published by ASTM based on MARC21 standards.

Scope eKnowledge Center, a leading content enhancement and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) provider to publishers and specialized information providers, will employ its proven "assisted automation" approach that blends its proprietary automation technology with intervention from subject domain and translation experts to create this solution for ASTM International. Scope President Tram Venkatraman commented, "This opportunity reflects a significant expansion of Scope's "smart content" services to enable its client's to enhance discoverability of content via non-English language metadata for a number of Asian and European languages. Scope is very pleased ASTM has chosen us again for this latest requirement."

Scope and ASTM International have also signed a deal for providing MARC cataloging services, which involve cataloging of selected technical papers (STPs), e-books and journal issues published by ASTM based on MARC21 standards. Scope Senior Vice President M. A, Eswaran commented, "We are delighted to continue to help ASTM's content become more "findable" and useful to its customers."

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