Articles

Crystal Ball: A DITA Wiki

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

There’s a rumor floating around the ether that says that Blast Radius is working on a wiki built on the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). Whether the rumor will prove to be true remains to be seen, but the idea was introduced publically during XTech2005 by ...

Filed under: Metadata : Technical Writing

Browser Wars Redux: Enter Mozilla FireFox and Opera

Thursday, October 28, 2004

While analysts report Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser is losing market share, many developers are still designing web sites and internet applications that don’t work well in other browsers. The question is, why would anyone want to develop a business ...

Filed under: Content Management : Metadata

Understanding Metadata: Using Dublin Core

Friday, September 19, 2003

By Diane Hillman, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

What is Metadata?

Metadata has been with us since the first librarian made a list of the items on a shelf of handwritten scrolls. The term “meta” comes from a Greek word that denotes “alongside, with, after, next.” ...

Filed under: Metadata : Technical Writing