Articles

Separating Content From Format

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Filed under: Content Management : Technical Writing

Salaries Rise For Technical Writers & Editors

Wednesday, October 15, 2003

The Society for Technical Communication recently released the results of its 2003 Technical Communicator Salary Survey, which compiles information about salaries and benefits for technical writers and editors in the U.S. and Canada.

According to the survey, the mean ...

Filed under: Content Management : Technical Writing

Book Review: Information Architecture With XML - A Management Strategy

Saturday, September 27, 2003

�Information Architecture with XML: A Management Strategy� by Peter Brown, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, England, 2003.

Despite the plethora of books positioning Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the next software programming language for IT gurus to ...

Filed under: Technical Writing : XML

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

How To Overcome Resistance To XML Authoring And Convert Reluctant XML Authors Into Great Ones

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

From the Arbortext XML Publishing Network

Since its inception in 1997, XML�s usage has grown at a stunning pace. Virtually every software product has an XML aspect, whether it�s the foundation of the product or just an import/export format.

The XML revolution ...

Filed under: Content Management : Technical Writing