Tools

While content conversion and editorial services will always demand a significant amount of human interaction, SPi Global automates the workflow with proprietary tools such as SPiCE. This proofing system eliminates inefficiencies and redundancies that slow down cycle time or create costly QA on the back-end.

Our tools include:

• SPiCE: SPi Global’s automation team developed SPiCE (SPi Copy Editing Tool) using Microsoft.Net technology to automate pre-editing and copyediting tasks. An add-in for MS Word, SPiCE prepares documents for language editing by structuring manuscripts, and for routine editing using XML schema. Once the copyediting is done, publishers can generate XML for any schema, supporting content creation for books, journals and MRWs.
• Proofing Systems: SPi Global has developed a number of proofing and auto correction tools to ensure content accuracy and quality. Our author proofing tool, for example, eliminates inefficiencies that arise from manually tracking author changes via online PDFs. The web-based system supports automatic linking from the mail-to-proof PDF page, enabling authors to make corrections online. We’ve also developed an innovative tool that dramatically reduces turn-around time by eliminating manual intervention in the author corrections process, which means that corrections made by the author are directly processed in XML.
• Conversion Platform: SPi Global’s experienced teams of project managers, content analysts, software engineers, content technicians, and QC analysts have developed a number of automated processes for migrating content from one format to another. These processes enable us to move content from platform to platform quickly, with greater accuracy and at significantly lower costs.
• Workflow Systems: We then bring these automated tools and processes together via a workflow management system that optimizes the production workflow, driving faster processing times and efficient use of resources. SPi Global also continually refines the workflow through these systems, looking for new ways to eliminate unnecessary steps, or incorporate quality assurance checks earlier in the process, reducing costs and speeding time-to-market.