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Johns Hopkins University - Center For Communication Programs
The Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP) produces a Client Provider Interaction (CPI) CD-ROM that is a comprehensive resource for information related to public health client provider interaction. The package includes tried and tested tools and guidance in areas such as provider focused interventions, client and community focused interventions, management focused interventions, and research and evaluation tools.
The (JHU/CCP) CPI CD contains materials from four resource categories: Provider Focused Interventions, Client and Community Focused Interventions, Management Focused Interventions and Research, and Evaluation Tools. QAI provided and facilitated a CD-ROM solution that included the best practices for programming, monitoring, and evaluation of the resource categories. QAI used Adobe Acrobat and customized plug-ins to build the format and functionality of the CD design. The CD was designed with a particular target audience in mind and included functionality that made it easy to use and was applicable to people living in third world developing countries.
The four document categories consist of data from MicrosoftÒ Word, Power Point, POPLINE database PDF templates, and Standard digital format photographs to PDF that are used and provided by JHU for QAI to construct the framework of the CD-ROM. The CD will also include digital audio and video files provided by JHU to support the first collection of data. This data was used to create navigation from POPLINE category pages as well as used to navigate from a table of contents with four main categories. The CD-ROM included a PDF based solution that provides the end-users the capability of searching and navigating throughout the CD-ROM's content.
QAI's product for this project was an AutoRun program that launched a custom designed FlashÔ projector that plays a short animation ending with a couple of paragraphs of introduction text and a continue button. With the exception of these two programs, the remainder of the CD contents was designed in PDF format.
JHU provided QAI with several data formats that required conversion to PDF. In the case of soft files, QAI utilized Adobes' Distiller and Postscript rendering techniques to produce PDF files. Hard copies were scanned and converted to PDF (image + hidden text) to enable users to perform full text searches. Other than cropping of the images, clean up of the files was not required. In order to create navigation and retrieval of these files, several action icons were used. i.e. Next page, previous page, return to table of contents, return to search results, and print article. Five standard buttons were created that appear on the left pane of each document.
The Bayer Corporation
The Bayer Corporation had identified their Registration books to be scanned, converted to PDF (image + hidden text), indexed and built into Acrobat Catalog. The documents consisted of approximately 200,000 pages, which were required to be converted to the portable document format (PDF image + hidden text), and indexed by their product name. Bayer was soliciting a vendor that maintained a state-of-the art-imaging center and provided scientific expertise. The final project provided BAYER with a significant reduction in storage space and expedient access to registration documents. BAYER was able to locate the appropriate document through full-text searches and a well-organized file foldering convention.
All of the documents were required to be indexed and converted to PDF (image + hidden text). Date and description of the products organized the binders. The total number of pages per report can range from 10-200 pages. While the files are indexed by their product name, or A.I. ID. Bookmarks were also used to describe the section tabs within the binders. Once all the documents had been scanned, indexed, QC'd, and approved by Bayer personnel; QAI cataloged the entire project and transported the data to BAYER via CD-ROM.
Johns Hopkins University - Center For Communication Programs
QAI was approached by Johns Hopkins University, Center for Communications to provide an electronic publishing solution. The Population Information Program (PIP) at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health has a mandate to disseminate information about reproductive health to developing countries. Traditionally this meant mailing out copies of medical journal articles upon request to organizations around the world. Ten years ago, PIP first produced a CD-ROM title containing bibliographic citations of the journal articles. The CD-ROM title, called POPLINE, now contains over 260,000 bibliographic records and is distributed to over 95 countries. Users could immediately search for a reference to an article on the CD-ROM, but until recently they had to wait for the complete journal article to be mailed to them. In 1998, PIP started offering e-mail delivery of the articles on a trial basis. Journal articles were converted to the Adobe Acrobat PDF format and sent to requesters as e-mail attachments. The Acro
bat PDF format was selected because it was an international standard for document exchange. In addition, the Acrobat Reader software was platform independent, and freely distributable. The trial was a major success, and today the majority of the document requests are for PDF delivery.
PIP took the concept one step further this year. Instead of waiting for an international health organization to request the full-text of an article, PIP collected articles on a specific topic to distribute in the PDF format on a CD-ROM. Quality Associates, Inc. was selected as the partner in the project to customize a user interface and convert over 10,000 pages of journal articles to PDF format. The resulting product was HIM CD-ROM. HIM is a collection of documents on the participation of men in reproductive health programs. Users can locate information by browsing a list of subjects, or by conducting a text search. HIM CD-ROM is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and produced by POPLINE Digital Services at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
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