Articles

Paradigm Shifts are Never Pretty: Advice on Making the Move to XML Authoring

Monday, June 16, 2008

By Sarah O’Keefe, Scriptorium Publishing Services, Inc.

Most people are risk-averse, and profound changes such as the move to structured authoring require new skills and workflows. To ensure a successful transition, XML implementers need to assess their team members, ...

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

Let’s Get Real: The Secret To Making The Case For DITA Adoption To The Rest Of The World

Sunday, June 08, 2008

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is seeking participants to help move the adoption of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) forward, pushing the value proposition of DITA ...

Filed under: DITA : Adoption : Usage : Structured Content : XML : Examples

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

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

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In industries where data constantly changes, working with out-of-date information can carry a very high price.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

Case Study in Controlling Documentation Quality with acrocheck: Assisted Writing and Editing at SAS

Saturday, March 22, 2008

By John Kohl, SAS Institute (reprinted with permission from Client Side News)

In a previous article, Uwe Muegge speculated about why we don’t hear about more companies using controlled languages. According to Muegge, “anyone new to the field may have a hard time ...

Filed under: Content Quality Management : Localization : Structured Content : Translation

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