Articles

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

DITA Test Drive Challenge: A Great Deal If You Ask Us

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Sometimes the sheer volume of information on the internet is overwhelming. Even with the help of Google Alerts and RSS feeds, it’s easy to miss interesting news. That’s likely the reason we failed to notice this especially interesting offer from the folks at Data ...

Filed under: DITA : Legacy Content Conversion : Technical Writing : Structured Authoring

Zamzar: Quick, Free, Online File Conversion

Sunday, May 20, 2007

What more can we say? It’s free. It’s quick. It’s online. It’s Zamzar, a file conversion product you might find handy when you find yourself in need of basic file conversion. Types of files handled include word processing, video, audio and more. We did a basic .doc to ...

Filed under: Legacy Content Conversion

Converting Poorly Structured Legacy Content Creates Difficult Challenges When Moving To DITA

Friday, May 18, 2007

Content management and information design expert JoAnn Hackos discusses moving legacy documentation to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) in this interview with Data Conversion Laboratory. Hackos defines legacy content, why and when converting content to ...

Filed under: DITA : Legacy Content Conversion