Articles

Thinking Outside the (Tech Docs) Box: Structured Authoring as Competitive Advantage

Friday, May 23, 2008

By Jake Sorofman, JustSystems

From Cost Center to Value Generator

There was a time when technical writing was seen as a cost center—a necessary function, but hardly a key lever for competitive advantage. This is quickly changing as globalization and ...

Filed under: Dynamic Content : Structured Content : Technical Writing : XML

DITA Maturity Model Community: Call for Your Participation

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Enterprises looking to fast track their content strategy and minimize the risks of a “big-bang” initiative are choosing DITA--one of the most popular information models to suit today’s content–rich, multi-channel environment. But how do you know where to begin? How do ...

Filed under: DITA : Usage : XML : Examples

CCM Takes Center Stage: Report Evaluates Component Content Management Systems and XML Editors

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Component Content Management (CCM) technology allows enterprises to manage text content as componentized chunks of information rather than whole documents or web pages. It has become increasingly important to modern enterprises, especially given the rapid emergence of ...

Filed under: Content Management : Component Content Management : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : XML

Enabling Information Sharing Integrity

Monday, April 21, 2008

By Jake Sorofman, JustSystems

In industries where data constantly changes, working with out-of-date information can carry a very high price. Yet financial services, manufacturing, life sciences, and other companies risk paying that price every time they use static ...

Filed under: Document Engineering : Dynamic Content : Mashups : Structured Content : XML

Choosing an XML Schema: DocBook or DITA?

Friday, April 11, 2008

By Richard Hamilton, special to The Content Wrangler (reprinted with permission)

If you follow the latest trends or have been to a conference recently, you may find the idea of choosing an XML schema puzzling. Isn’t the question really, “How should I customize DITA ...

Filed under: DITA : DocBook : Structured Content : Technical Writing : XML

Improving Your Legacy Content With Content Tagging

Friday, March 14, 2008

By Michael Gross, DCLNews

In the early days of digitizing information, five years ago, it was enough to just make more and more content electronic, but that’s no longer enough. With the ever-enlarging mounds of data out there, it’s not enough to create more ...

Filed under: Content Conversion : Legacy Content Conversion : Metadata : Structured Content : XML

Quark Announces Dynamic Publishing Solution: Fills Much Needed Gaps in End-to-End Publishing Void

Thursday, March 06, 2008

We could have predicted it. In fact, we did. But, we were asked to keep it a secret until after Quark, widely known for its desktop publishing tools, announced a major change of direction for the firm and its products. It’s a most exciting announcement, the first ...

Filed under: Content Management : Dynamic Content : Marketing Communication : Publishing : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Xpress Author for Word : Technological Innovation : XML