In episode 130 of The Content Strategy Experts podcast, Bill Swallow and Sarah O’Keefe talk about the challenges of replatforming content from one system to another.
Links are always a problem, especially cross-document links. Reusable content tends to be handled differently in different systems, or almost the same, but not quite, which is almost worse.
—Sarah O’Keefe
A wise woman recently said, “replatforming structured content is annoying and expensive.” This is doubly so when it comes to localization.
Replatforming nearly always involves content change—the new system may store content differently or require a different format or structure. Although the changes may affect your existing localization process, some of these changes may be for the better.
In episode 128 of The Content Strategy Experts podcast, Sarah O’Keefe talks with guest Chip Gettinger of RWS about why companies are replatforming structured content by moving it into a new component content management system (CCMS).
I find there’s some business change that’s happened to spark this replatforming. One is mergers and acquisitions, where two companies get together, there are two CCMSs, and one basically is chosen.
—Chip Gettinger, RWS
Scriptorium is doing a lot of replatforming projects. We have customers with existing structured content—custom XML, DocBook, and DITA—who need to move their content operations from their existing CCMS to a new system.
These transitions, even DITA to DITA, require a solid business justification. Replatforming structured content is annoying and expensive. Most often, the organization’s needs have changed, and the current platform is no longer a good fit.
Note: This post focuses on transitions into DITA. There are surely DITA to not-DITA projects out there, but they are not in our current portfolio.
Join the Scriptorium team at ConVEx Minneapolis! Here’s where you can see our team in action.
Monday, April 8th at 10:15 am
Sarah O’Keefe will share insights on the pros and cons of AI alongside other industry experts Dawn Stevens, Val Swisher, and Rob Hanna.
Monday, April 8th at 4:45 pm
Monday afternoon, Sarah and Dawn will share experiences of content strategy projects gone wrong, including what lessons you can learn to avoid these pitfalls.
Tuesday, April 9th at 4:45 pm
In this talk, Bill Swallow (Scriptorium) and Emilie Herman (Financial Accounting Foundation) share lessons learned and advice for setting your DITA replatforming project up for success.
Wednesday, April 10th at 11:15 am
Bill Swallow will also be on a panel led by Marianne Calilhanna to talk about a new and exciting resource for content professionals; the Component Content Alliance.
We predicted three content operations trends that will impact businesses in 2024. The resources in this post will help you prepare for these trends, the changing landscape of AI, and more.
Scriptorium principals Sarah O’Keefe, Alan Pringle, and Bill Swallow have decades of experience in the content industry. In this webinar, they share their analysis of key content operations trends.
After watching, you’ll learn
Whether you’re looking into a component content management system (CCMS) for the first time or maximizing the value of what you already have, this collection of insights will help you choose what’s right for your organization.
When you start looking at your content lifecycle and the content systems needed to support it, you’re going to end up with a decision between buying a suite of products from a single supplier or piecing together your environment with individual components.
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We had an amazing lineup of guests and topics on our podcast in 2022. Here are some short highlights to help you figure out which episodes you might want to catch up on (the links take you to the individual episodes, where you will find the transcript and a link to the audio file).
