As a subsidiary of Artwork Systems Group, Enfocus has gained additional resources that will help increase marketing, research and development and customer support. These resources will also help the company meet the demands for advanced PDF (Portable Document Format) editing applications.

Enfocus, which is based in Gent, Belgium with U.S. offices in San Mateo, Calif., is on the Web at http://www.enfocus.com/.

FizzyLab will set up Relevator, a context-driven method of categorizing and presenting related content on information-intensive sites, on the on-line editions of 11 McClatchy-owned dailies, including the STAR TRIBUNE of Minneapolis-St. Paul, California's SACRAMENTO BEE and FRESNO BEE, North Carolina's RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER and Nandotimes International News Service and Washington's TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE.

The Relevance Engine, FizzyLab's proprietary mathematical modeling system, uses algorithms to understand context and themes in an article or source document, delivering relevant information to web site visitors.

McClatchy is on the Web at http://www.mcclatchy.com/. FizzyLab is on the Web at http://www.fizzylab.com/.

Published by the Sing Tao group, iMAIL will replace the HONG KONG STANDARD, a long-term client of Cybergraphic, which was acquired by Geac last year.

In a little over a month, editorial designs were turned into templates for copy editors (known as "sub-editors" in Hong Kong) working on Geac's CyberPage and CyberNews products, while advertising was moved from broadsheet to tabloid. Also installed was Geac's automated layout tool, Layout Xpert.

Geac is located on the Web at http://www.publishingsystems.geac.com/.

At its annual general meeting in Geneva last week, more than 50 participating members of the IPTC, approved the public release of the first version of NewsML, a standard for the management of multimedia news based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML).

The organization encouraged the news industry to start development implementations while final support documentation is prepared before the planned ratification of the document data type (DTD) at the IPTC's October meeting in Amsterdam.

NewsML is the direct result of an IPTC initiative which started in October 1999, when the membership established a program called IPTC2000, whose goal was to deliver an XML-based standard to represent and manage news through its life cycle, including production, interchange and consumer use.

NewsML is an XML-based standard for all aspects of multimedia news creation, storage and delivery. At the heart of NewsML is the concept of the NewsItem which can contain various media -- text, photos, graphics, video -- together with all the meta-information that enables the recipient to understand the relationship between components and understand the roles of each component.

The Windsor, United Kingdom-based IPTC was established in 1965 to safeguard the telecommunications interests of the world's press; it is on the Web at http://www.iptc.org/.

With the XDK, developers can add features to avenue.quark that meet the general needs of hundreds of companies or the more specialized needs of a single organization.

XTensions are add-on software that enhance Quark products. Already, more than 60 companies are certified to develop XTensions software for avenue.quark.

The company has also said that NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group Inc.'s educational division is now using Quark's digital asset management application, Quark Digital Media System (QuarkDMS), to coordinate collaborative publishing activities and automate processes.

QuarkDMS was installed at Lincolnwood, Ill.-based NTC by The Revere Group of Deerfield, Ill. Revere's QuarkDMS Quick Start program was used at NTC and the publisher completed its migration to QuarkDMS for production in just six weeks.

Lastly, Quark said that it has signed an agreement with Quill Communications Inc. of Encinitas, Calif., to integrate QuarkDMS with CATPUB (Content, Approval, Tracking, Publishing), Quill's Web application for managing workflow, content approval, tracking, and publishing.

Quill's integration of the two systems will result in an end-to-end content intensive media management system that reduces the challenges of managing and publishing large amounts of content.

Quark is on the Web at http://www.quark.com/, while Revere is at http://www.reveregroup.com/, Quill is at http://www.quillcomm.com/ and NTC is at http://www.ntc-cb.com/.

The installation allows the creation of custom search fields, editing dialogs, print layouts and web pages based on meta data standards defined by the Department of Defense (DoD). The system provides a repository for data submitted by photographers and videographers located at 14 installation sites across Europe.

In addition, SCC has supplied an enterprise-wide license of the SCC MediaGrid folder watcher and database client, as well as the SCC MediaFactory file processing and delivery application to the DoD, allowing for the installation of MediGrid and MediaFactory to any U.S. Army, Navy or Air Force installation throughout the world.

SCC is on the Web at http://www.swcc.com/.

Over a four-year period Unisys will make "a substantial investment" in the READY Project, which was launched in 1997 to promote the development and well being of newspaper companies through research and a global exchange of ideas, data and information.

WAN is on the Web at http://www.fiej.org/, while Unisys is at http://www.unisys.com/publishing/.

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