Articles

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 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

Structured Writing—It’s Not What You Write; It’s How You Write It

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

When you design a structure with a place for everything, the document writes itself

By Amanda Cross, special to TheContentWrangler.com

My first job out of college was documenting reports that were spit out of a mainframe. I received a copy of the report, opened the ...

Filed under: Technical Writing : Structured Authoring

Larry Kollar’s XML Heresy: Structure Can Take Care of Itself (Can’t it?)

Monday, March 19, 2007

In XML Heresy the Second: Structure Can Take Care of Itself, Larry Kollar discusses structured authoring, and why he thinks “it’s getting far more attention than it needs (or deserves).” The gist of his self-described “heretical view”: structure is not necessary to ...

Filed under: Technical Writing : Structured Authoring : XML

Whose Content Is It Anyway? An Argument For Modular Writing

Friday, November 24, 2006

By Pamela Kostur, Partner, Parallax Communications

Writing modular content that can easily be reused is important not only when working in a content management environment, but also in the world of “everyday” technical communication. However, after spending several ...

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

Transitional Text: Do We Really Need All that Glue?

Friday, September 29, 2006

There’s an interesting discussion about the importance of transitional text going on at dita.xml.org, the online home of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). In Do We Really Need All that Glue?, JoAnn Hackos explores the debate over the need for “glue ...

Filed under: DITA : Technical Writing : Structured Authoring

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

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