ConVEx 2026: Metadata, DITA, AI-readiness, and more

What does the content future actually look like? At ConVEx 2026, our team shared glimpses of the future and practical insights on how to prepare.

Death and tax-onomies: Metadata with minimal pain

Business-related metadata is a critical piece of your DITA content model. But taxonomy work is overwhelming to many people. In this session, Allison Beatty shared how the fields of library science and knowledge management offer tools that let you avoid reinventing the wheel.

Attendees learned about the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), how it maps to the DITA content model, and how you can use the Dublin Core standard to develop your organization’s metadata.

AI and content: Avoiding disaster

As a purveyor of high-stakes technical content, Scriptorium CEO Sarah O’Keefe has been watching the rise of AI with alarm. Our interest in automation and new technologies is on a collision course with our mandate to deliver timely, accurate information. In this session, Sarah shared critical insights for futureproofing your content operations for AI and beyond.

Tag, you’re it! Playing nice with DITA

Marketing, technical, training, and support teams often create content in silos, leading to duplication and inconsistency. In this session, Jake Campbell unpacked how DITA provides a common set of rules that enables collaboration while preserving each team’s unique goals.

This session highlighted how metadata supports discovery and targeted publishing, how taxonomies promote clarity without semantic overload, and how highly designed materials can be adapted into DITA without losing impact. He also explored strategies for creating reusable, modular content that flows across teams to improve consistency and customer experience, creating a coordinated, sustainable content ecosystem.

Listen first: Strategies, structure, practice for AI-ready content

In this panel, Sarah O’Keefe (Scriptorium), Dipo Ajose-Coker (RWS), Regina Preciado (Content Rules), Marianne Calilhanna (DCL), and Jack Molisani (ProSpring Staffing) shared expert insights for creating AI-ready content.

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