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Avallain (www.avallain.com), a Swiss-based company, that provides award-winning education technology and tools to create, manage and disseminate educational content, and EDIA, Dutch-based, EdTech company applying Artificial Intelligence to create smart content for educational use, have announced a technical and commercial partnership.

EDIA and Adaptemy join forces to automate curriculum creation and content management.

EDIA, an Amsterdam AI EdTech company specialising in the automation of content creation, management, and distribution processes for educational companies, and Adaptemy, a leading provider of classroom-focused adaptive learning technology today announced a strategic partnership. The two companies will work together to help educational publishers accelerate production and delivery of adaptive content suitable for personalised learning.

In 2018, EDIA released its first integration version with Alfresco. This year EDIA powered its artificial intelligence capabilities to FontoXML. FontoXML is a web-based XML editor that is used by subject matter experts around the world to create structured content. 

EDIA started their transition from a project-based service provider to a product-based and SaaS company in 2018. To accelerate this transition and focus even more on product development, EDIA and Trifork entered into a strategic partnership. The current customer portfolio of EDIA's education and eHealth software services will be transferred to Trifork, including associated knowledge and several employees.

Traditional methods of creating and managing publishing work can be significantly improved through the efficiency made available by new technologies. One of them is Artificial Intelligence (AI).  However, for many publishers, AI still seems abstract and unclear and how it can help them. 

Luckily tools like Papyrus make the benefits of AI clear for teachers, publishers and the authors who work with them. Papyrus allows authors working with publishers in English Language Teaching (ELT) industry to correctly ascertain the language level of their writing and adjust it accordingly. For publishers - particularly educational publishers who work with large amounts of content which need to be organised, classified and created according to language level - tools like Papyrus increase efficiency and fit perfectly into a productive publishing value chain. 

At EDIA we aim to improve our products and services in the direction our customers want us to go. That's why we are regularly seeking feedback and reviews. Once we've collected customers' requests, we handover them to our product development team, which then plans how the products will be improved in the short and long term.

From Google Maps integrated into a website to credit card payments, more and more industries are using an Application Programming Interface and educational publishers are no exception.

There’s a lot of information around about APIs - how they’re integral to business success and the cornerstone of any digital business. But what exactly is an API? How is it relevant for educational publishers? And why should you care?

In the blog post we answer the following questions:

• What is an API?
• What are the benefits of APIs for Educational Publishers?
• How can educational publishers use APIs in their workflow? 

PublishOne is an advanced and user-friendly publishing solution for authors, researchers and editors that work with digital and print content. EDIA, on the other hand, is an education technology company that supports educational organisations with automated metadata tagging and adoption of smart content. EDIA uses modern techniques of machine learning and artificial intelligence that are offered in the form of an API directly to publishers or via various content management systems(CMS), of which PublishOne is one. This powerful combination of the CMS and automated meta-tagging will deliver huge benefits to consumers and businesses of both parties.

The digital age is changing lots of traditional industries. Neither education nor publishing are exempt. Many educational publishers have recognised this and are beginning to adapt their content into Smart Content using metadata tagging.

There are 3 things to take into account when picking your metadata management tool:

• Understanding the product
• Standards used by the system
• The accuracy and specificity of the tool

Converting content into smart content is crucial for publishers to survive in the digital and artificial intelligence age. Educational publishers have a plethora of content which needs to be accurately stored and labeled to the right language or reading level. Hence, following the CEFR* scale is key for publishers to match content to the right readability level. In this blog post, we'll examine what kind of solutions exist in the market that offer CEFR classification.