To help organisations achieve a fully maximised digital content strategy, Griffin Brown offers consulting services, based on a combination of in-depth technical knowledge and an appreciation of the business and human factors affecting organisational change.

Strategic and Technical Consulting

Whether planning a workflow, recommending an XML strategy, creating a software specification, or helping to select a supplier or product, we at Griffin Brown are trusted advisors to the publishing and content industries and can deliver advice and judgements backed by our hard-won experience in the XML and publishing world.

All Griffin Brown consultants have a strong track-record and experience not just of “talking about it” but of “doing it” too. We are always interested in building long-term relationships with clients and our frequent repeat work and retained-consultancy agreements bear testimony to the trust placed in us, and the care we take in our work.

Areas of Consulting Specialism

  • Digital publishing workflow design and appraisal
  • CMS vendor and system evaluation, and RFI and ITT drafting assistance
  • XML and other digital content assessment
  • Workshops, training and mentoring on XML and related technologies
  • DTD and Schemas, from business analysis to technical implementation
  • CrossRef Consulting — digital asset identification and link resolution
  • ONIX consulting — working with publishing product metadata and eCommerce
  • XForms, REST and other “Web 2.0” technlologies
  • A full range of Implementation Services for assembling digital content systems

ONIX

Griffin Brown has proven expertise providing consultancy and software systems that incorporate or use the ONIX International eCommerce standards for publishing industry information.

ONIX has come about as a result of collaboration between publishers, booksellers, intermediaries and system vendors under the umbrella of the EDItEUR consortium. In the UK its development is overseen by BIC (Book Industry Communication).

All the leading recipients of publishing eCommerce data (e.g., Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Nielsen Bookdata) are able to receive ONIX data digitally.

Our ONIX services include:

  • Providing assistance creating ONIX records from existing data (for example data held in databases or spreadsheets)
  • Advice on the use of ONIX International (and the emerging ONIX for Serials)
  • Production of DTDs / Schemas that incorporate or interoperate with ONIX data
  • Design and development of systems that 'talk' ONIX (we are the developers of BIC's own ONIX editing software)

More information on ONIX can be found at the EDItEUR web site.

Try out ONIXline, our free ONIX for Books QA service here.

CrossRef & DOI Consulting

' … Just DOI it … '

Griffin Brown has proven expertise providing CrossRef based solutions to the publishing industry. Work we have carried out in the space include:

  • Conversion of legacy metadata to XML metadata ready for submission to CrossRef
  • Development of easy-to-use tools for synthesis of CrossRef-ready XML metadata from 'content-only' digital serial holdings
  • Development of tools for easy form-based editing and quality checking of CrossRef metadata
  • Assurance that content DTDs/Schemas provide the right information for target resolution of citations using CrossRef
  • Development of components for link testing and refreshing

Whether you are new to the world of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and link resolution, or whether you have a substantial investment but need your data freshening, we are happy to help.

Try out our free Crossref metadata QA service here.

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