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Documentation and Training Slide Decks Now Available

Thursday, November 08, 2007

The slide decks from Documentation and Training East 2007 are now available. A few speakers have yet to share their slides, but the bulk of the presentations are available for view within a web browser, and without the need to download additional software. This service ...

Filed under: 3D : Content Quality Management : Content Reuse : DITA : Document Engineering : Dynamic Content : Experience Design : Information Architecture : Localization : Mobile Content : Presentations : Publishing : Rich Media : S1000D : Search : Simplified Technical English : Software as a Service : Technical Writing : Translation : Usability : User-Generated Content : Video Documentation : Web 2.0 : XML : XQuery : Web Content Management

Decision Time: DITA or S1000D

Monday, May 21, 2007

By Joel Amoussou, special to TheContentWrangler.com

The subject of interoperability between S1000D and the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) has received significant attention within the technical documentation community recently. This article discusses ...

Filed under: DITA : S1000D

If These Walls Could Talk: Unlocking the Interoperability of SCORM, S1000D, and DITA

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

In If These Walls Could Talk, technical communication maven Diane Wieland explores the possibility of using the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) as an antecedent, or precursor, to S1000D in order to create smaller bits of reusable information that can be ...

Filed under: DITA : Usage : E-Learning : S1000D : XML

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

Presentations, Proclamations, & Predictions: FrameMaker 8, RoboHelp & Technical Communication Tools

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Friday, February 9, 2007, we hosted a double-header Adobe product demonstration for Indianapolis-area help developers and technical publications teams. Our featured presenter was Senior Product Evangelist RJ Jacquez, whose demonstrations covered both Adobe FrameMaker ...

Filed under: DITA : Help Authoring : RoboHelp : Life Sciences : S1000D : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Adobe FrameMaker : Plug-ins

OASIS Considering Development of DITA S1000D Interoperability Technical Committee

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Members of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) have requested the creation of a discussion list regarding a possible new OASIS DITA S1000D Interoperability Technical Committee. The OASIS discussion list is intended to ...

Filed under: DITA : S1000D

S1000D and DITA: Is Either Ready for Prime Time?

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

In S1000D or DITA - Which One Works For Me?; And is Either One Ready For Prime Time?, the folks at Data Conversion Laboratory examine typical scenarios facing publications managers by exploring how S1000D and DITA might be used by a fictional firm, Big Holes, Inc. The ...

Filed under: DITA : S1000D

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