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DocTrain: Keynote from Kelly Stirman
Thursday, October 18, 2007 — posted by Sarah
Kelly Stirman of Mark LogicMost important trend: task and role aware publishing
What if a phone were aware of meeting times and automatically went into vibrate mode?
Documentation: When editing CSS in Dreamweaver, O'Reilly book on HTML should display the relevant CSS information.
Lexus: A customized car manual with relevant color, my name, my options.
Electronic flight bag: Provides supporting information that is relevant to current status. (No takeoff information when cruising at 30,000 feet.)
A highly visual presentation, which loses a lot in a blog. A discussion of different types of hammers, ranging from a rock to the innards of a Steinway -- we want to create the right tool for the right job.
How to get to task and role aware:
- XML
- granular access
- content logic
Language and meaning are two very different things.
XML is also the Socratic method. Communication using a predefined set of rules.
Schema or DTD is a contract.
Oops. Now we're doing an XML overview. Nice overview, but appropriate for this audience?
Why XML?
- Distinguish between meaning and rendering (i.e. separate content and presentation; we've heard that before)
- Relationship between meaning and rendering can be many-to-many. One piece of content, many types of output. Also, one type of output, many pieces of content as input.
- Library: basically a "self-service" model. You go to the library to find your books.
- Books are atomic -- you can't break a printed book into smaller parts -- you can't check out a chapter from a library.
- Need a query language for a tool (this is where we veer into the business case for Mark Logic products)
- Example: SafariU. Custom course readers for university professors.
....and he's running over his time, so I must go.
Mr. Stirman is trained in philosophy and it shows. Very interesting presentation, and a different perspective from what we're used to.
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