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DITA Metrics: Developing Cost Metrics

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

By Mark Lewis, special to The Content Wrangler

Introduction
Cost of Metrics Overview
Cost of a Project
Cost of a Topic
Cost of User Guides Without Topic Reuse
Cost of User Guides With Topic Reuse
Cost Comparison: User Guides With and Without ...

Filed under: DITA : Adoption : Lessons Learned : White Papers

How to Rewrite Content for Reuse

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

More than just discussing why reuse is valuable, in this article from DCL News Pamela Kostur tells you how to do it. Pamela advises on how to convert your unstructured (or loosely-structured) legacy documentation into something more suitable for reuse. Why not just ...

Filed under: Content Reuse : DITA : Lessons Learned : Structured Content : Technical Writing : Structured Authoring

DITA-izing Your Documents: Five Issues To Think About When Converting Your Legacy Docs To DITA

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Data Conversion Laboratory has published several useful and very informative articles on issues impacting the conversion of legacy document collections when making a move to XML and/or DITA. Mark Gross identifies five issues that you will likely have to face as you ...

Filed under: DITA : Lessons Learned

Joe Gollner on S1000D and DITA: Bridging the Gap between Exchange Standards and Usable Content

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Joe Gollner likes solving puzzles. In fact, he often draws on his passion for history and philosophy to help him with the paradigms for modern-day conundrums. “That’s probably why I work so much,” admits Joe, “though it doesn’t feel like work to me. I love to figure ...

Filed under: DITA : Lessons Learned : S1000D : Technical Writing

XML Authoring and DITA: An Interesting Analogy

Saturday, March 10, 2007

From the Adobe Technical Communication blog comes this interesting and thought-provoking article, XML Authoring and DITA: An Interesting Analogy.

The analogy, provided by Aseem Dokania, Product Manager, Adobe FrameMaker: “Imagine if all countries followed the same ...

Filed under: DITA : Lessons Learned : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Adobe FrameMaker

Archived Webinar: Why VP’s Fear Documentation

Friday, September 15, 2006

If you missed “Why VP’s Fear Documentation” (with JoAnn Hackos, NCR Teradata, and Astoria Software) a live, one-hour webinar that originally took place September 13, 2006, don’t fret. The organizers have the event so you can replay it at your leisure. The ...

Filed under: DITA : Lessons Learned : Publishing : Technical Writing : Structured Authoring

10 DITA Lessons Learned From Tech Writers in the Trenches

Sunday, July 30, 2006

This exclusive and informative top ten list is based on interviews conducted by TheContentWrangler.com with technical writers at more than 20 software companies—tech writers that are actually using DITA to create documentation today. It’s jam-packed with useful advice, ...

Filed under: DITA : Lessons Learned

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