Assembly line for the integration, preparation and distribution of content
The content transformation service Hyper.Net is a high-performance set of Web services for preparing and distributing document-oriented and other content.
Data submission
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Content is submitted to the service using an existing standard interface (SOAP /XML).
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The data can be submitted automatically from office communication systems, document/content management systems or other content storage applications, e.g. after a document or a new version of the document is released.
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The data can, however, also be submitted to the service directly using "MailTo" or by a simple manual "upload" operation if the integration of an office communication system or DMS is not desired.
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A large spectrum of content types can be submitted, among those documents, binary files, ERP data, Lotus Notes records, HTML data, XML data and hyperlinks.
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Data processing
During the transformation process, the content is split up into its components and analyzed according to rules which can be set up very easily. Afterwards, meta information and hyperlinks are added to the information and it is combined to form relational data. During the transformation, the desired renditions per document and topic such as HTML, PDF and Flashpaper are created.
Data output
The results of the transformation process are made available on various platforms as structured data in a non-proprietary format. Each change to the source data (i.e. to the original content) causes the process to be repeated and the transformed data to be automatically updated.
Parameterization of the transformation
The parameters of the transformation to be performed on a specified content type can be determined in many ways. Available instruments are:
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Parsers (software which syntactically analyzes the content)
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Publication schemes (settings for hypertext publications, hyperlink rules, image processing etc.)
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Content type definitions (settings for entire publications: renditions, markups, versioning...)
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Converters (classes of programs transforming content to other formats)
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XSLT (Extended Style Sheets for converting XML to other formats)
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CSS (Cascaded Stylesheets used to specify how the content is to be presented)
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Compound PDF definitions (specifications for compound PDF publications)
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The definitions can be specified by content type. There are numerous sets of settings which permit a simple transformation of content in standard cases.
For an overview of rules for implementing content-intensive portals and Web applications, click herehere (PDF 4 MB)