PRISM Aggregator

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Following are some of the benefits of the Aggregator DTD. The Guide to the PRISM Aggregator DTD explains these benefits in more detail.

• The use of a single, industry-standard format for extraction and acquisition reduces the errors and costs of tracking and deploying multiple formats to communicate with multiple business partners and makes it possible to automate these processes.
• The value and accessibility of the content will be increased because time to market is reduced by the use of a single format for all organizations.
• The use of a common industry format reduces the barrier to entry for all publishers and content aggregators. This is especially valuable for smaller organizations.
• Aggregators manage content from a large numbers of sources. By providing a common metadata standard, PRISM helps everyone in the electronic content business track, use and re-use their content.
• Providing content encoded in XML enhances the content�s value because it makes it possible to re-purpose it. For instance:




• Information marked up as tables is now accessible as data.
• In-line XML markup lets you identify names, key phrases and other important data elements such as organizations. This ability greatly improves search and display flexibility and increases the possibilities for new products.
• Standardization of the use of special characters gives you wider access to more scientific symbols and foreign characters. Furthermore, they can be handled automatically.

All of these capabilities combine to let you use your content on a wider variety of output media and products, getting more value from your information assets.