ASTM International partners with Scope for enhancing the findability of its digital library content

,Chennai, India, 07/11/2011: Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading content
enhancement and knowledge services provider, has been selected by ASTM
International, the globally recognized leader in international standards
development, for its subject matter expert (SME)-curated knowledge mining and
indexing services.
Under the agreement, Scope will be developing a domain-specific, multi-level
taxonomy for the vast array of content within ASTM’s Standards and Engineering
Digital Library (SEDL). With over 1,400 ebooks, 60,000 articles and chapters,
and 12,000 standards, the ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library is one
of the world’s most comprehensive engineering resources. Scope will also develop
facets with a taxonomic structure to enable robust cross domain search, as well
as create an expanded list of keywords to be mapped to the taxonomy and facets
accordingly. This content enhancement project aims to provide a more precise
search experience to the Digital Library end users, allow drilled-down
navigation, as well as the ability to conduct effective searches across content
domains.
Scope is known in the industry for its “assisted automation” approach that
blends the use of appropriate technology with subject domain expertise for
scalable, cost effective and high-value results for its clients worldwide. To
execute this project specifically, Scope has developed a team that includes
taxonomy experts and software specialists, as well as an array of domain experts
from the diverse breath of industries served by ASTM.
“I speak for the whole of the Scope team in saying that we are extremely pleased
to be working with an internationally recognized and respected organization such
as ASTM International,” shared Tram Venkatraman, President of Scope. “The
ability to optimize the mix of technology and subject matter expertise is
Scope’s forte. We look forward to leveraging this strength to support ASTM
International’s commitment to the development and dissemination of high- quality
standards and technical information in increasingly diverse fields.”
ASTM’s Director of Product Development and Marketing, David von Glahn, comments,
“We selected Scope’s SME-curated knowledge mining and indexing solution after an
in-depth review of a number of vendor’s proposals to address our content
enhancement goals. We were impressed by Scope’s ability to offer a robust
approach and are confident that the manual curation provided by their subject
matter experts will deliver a significantly improved search experience for our
end users.”