Intelligent Content is the next generation of XML.
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Welcome to Intelligent Content for Journals – your home for innovations in journal publishing with Microsoft Word and JATS XML.
We bring the following values to the market:
- Patented Technology for Seamless MS Word Integration
- Automated JATS XML Compliance and Formatting
- Faster Manuscript Editing, Lower Costs, and Fewer Errors
What brings you here today?
Ictect offers the best alternative to Inera eXtyles. In addition, our flagship product icTools also offers the possibility of modernizing your publishing workflow and reducing per article cost. We are currently working with customers under contract to replace Inera eXtyles with icTools. We invite you to join the webinar – icTools for replacing Inera eXtyles and Modernizing Publishing Workflow.
Ictect software allows everyone to use Microsoft Word for the manuscript in the publishing process, even when JATS XML is being created. We have the unique and patented feature that the XML lives as part of the Word document. Authors, editors and publishers can all use the collaboration features available from Word, including co–authoring, track changes, comments, editing on the mobile version, editing in offline mode, and much more. All this comes to you for no extra cost!
Contact us for a demonstration of the collaboration features with journal manuscripts.
One of the areas to consider is the cost of outsourcing. Many well-established publishers use offshore services, while emerging or smaller publishers use freelancers for manuscript editing and formatting. With icTools, you can reduce and eliminate such outsource. See our case study for Air Force eliminating outsourcing and reducing the cost by 60% and improving publishing time from 29 days to 11 days.
The software also offers built-in quality checks for publishers. Quality checks can be customized for your specific needs beyond just the style guide.
Contact us to discuss your goals and how Ictect has helped other publishers achieving with their goal.
We offer Word to JATS XML, and JATS XML to Word from Intelligent Content Server, with full API access. Because each journal is different, there is a one-time setup involved. Please see our product information and videos for an overview. We offer this on an API-based transaction, with one-time setup fee. To receive a quote for the API access, please provide the following information:
- One or more sample manuscripts/articles in Word, XML and PDF
- Metadata files associated with them
- The volume of manuscripts that you will be processing on a monthly/annual basis
- Brief description of the application where you plan to use Word to XML and XML to Word automation
What is Intelligent Content for Journals?
Intelligent Content for Journals is a suite of products based on Ictect’s patented technology for developing innovative applications for journals. The products include:
Both icTools and ICS enable automated JATS tagging of journal manuscripts, articles and other types of content. Innovative applications developed with our software include:
- JATS XML automation from raw manuscripts
- Editorial and Production workflows with Microsoft Word
- Manuscript quality checking and instant feedback to authors upon submission
- Automated integrity checking and scoring of manuscripts
- And much more… Talk to us about your project
Frequently Asked Questions
In addition the Research Articles, Ictect software also handles different types of documents typically found in journals, including:
- Research News
- Clinical Review
- Bulletin
- Case Review
- Clinical updates
- Guidelines
- News
- Features
- Editorials
- Analysis
- Observations
- Editor's choice
- Letters
- Obituaries
- Views and reviews
- Opinion
- Special Paper
- Fast Facts
Our key differentiators are:
- The use of Microsoft Word for authoring, editing, converting, reviewing content with XML in the background. Often times, there is a disconnect between technical people using XML and non-technical staff using Microsoft Word. Our software bridges the gap between the two.
- Highly accurate schema-guided tagging approach that tags deep, granular hierarchical structures from documents directly to JATS XML. Other software products in the market are only able to do shallow tagging of content – requiring manual efforts or outsourcing. icTools brings this powerful capability to Microsoft Word on the desktop and ICS offers this from a server.
- Software customized to your unique needs at an affordable price.
We are a software company, and our business model is primarily based on software licensing. However, we realize that customers sometime need services for their documents, such as formatting them, converting them to XML, checking them. We do offer such services from Ictect, and our partners depending upon the volume. Please contact us for your needs.
In many business situations, content processes are complex and require a significant amount of manual work including outsourced services. Ictect software offers features for checking documents according to your business rules, formatting documents according to your templates, converting documents to standard or customized XML content format, and much more. This can all be done with Microsoft Word or with submission to the Intelligent Content Server, significantly reducing the amount of time and cost and improving the quality of documents. See our case study on how the Air Force reduced the cost by 60%, and improved their publishing time by 29 days to 11 days.
While many companies may use the term Intelligent Content in a very generic manner, we have a very specific notion of it. We have a patented software that we call the Intelligent Content Software. Currently, we offer the software in the following 3 embodiments.
The “bundle” of these, or the license of the core patent for specific purposes is also available as “Intelligent Content Technology”.
Ictect software is much more than just converting to XML. From Bill Kasdorf’s blog at ALPSP:
You might initially view Ictect as a competitor of eXtyles (an XML product for journals) and those home-grown programs the prepress vendors use. It’s not. It belongs upstream of them. It’s a way to get really well tagged JATS XML from raw author manuscripts to facilitate the use of editorial tools, without requiring manual styling. It’s the beginning of an Intelligent Content Workflow. It’s a very interesting development.
One of the key elements of an innovation according to the US patent office is that it must not be obvious to practitioners in the field. The Journal publication industry has the mindset that Microsoft Word and XML are different and never shall the two meet! Our approach completely changes this and allows you to look at content challenges from a different perspective, enabling innovative applications in your business processes.
Yes, we support NLM DTD, BITS and custom DTD as well. Contact us for details and demonstrations.
We have replaced ArborText, XMetaL, FrameMaker, and Quark XML Author in organizations. See our case study for Army Publishing Directorate where we replaced ArborText, and our case study for Air Force Publishing where we replaced Adobe FrameMaker. In situations where these products are tightly integrated with other enterprise systems (such as ArborText with Windchill, Quark XML Author with QPS, and XMetaL with RWS Tridion), we have augmented the workflows by making it easier for SMEs to contribute to XML content workflows.
icTools can make it easier for SMEs to communicate with developers using Microsoft Word.
This will bring efficiency in your workflow and will save time for SMEs as well as developers.
Our Customers
Testimonials
Steven Quinn
Manager, Information Services
Office of the Secretary of the Board
The City University of New York
Manager, Information Services
Office of the Secretary of the Board
The City University of New York
Jessica Spencer-Gallucci
Director
Air Force Departmental Publishing Office
Director
Air Force Departmental Publishing Office
Jill Schwartz
Editor
Peterson’s Publishing, a Nelnet Company
Editor
Peterson’s Publishing, a Nelnet Company
