Structured authoring overview
In this podcast, Alan, Bill, and Sarah provide an overview of structured authoring. What are the business requirements that might cause an organization to consider structured authoring?
In this podcast, Alan, Bill, and Sarah provide an overview of structured authoring. What are the business requirements that might cause an organization to consider structured authoring?
Coauthored by Sarah O’Keefe and Alan Pringle
First published in 2001.
Structured authoring and XML represent a significant paradigm shift in content creation. Implementing structured authoring with XML allows organizations to enforce content organization requirements. The addition of hierarchy and metadata to content improves reuse and content management. These benefits, however, must be weighed against the effort required to implement a structured authoring approach. The business case is compelling for larger writing organizations; they will be the first to adopt structured authoring. Over time, improvements in available tools will reduce the cost of implementing structured authoring and make it affordable for smaller organizations.
Positive, optimistic, energetic. Once again, the tcworld India conference in Bangalore did not disappoint.
This post is part of Scriptorium’s 20th anniversary celebration.
In addition to Scriptorium’s twentieth anniversary, 2017 marks the twelfth year for this blog, which started in April 2005 with a grudging And another one bites the dust… post.
This post is part of Scriptorium’s 20th anniversary celebration.
I’m finding it surprisingly difficult to write a recap of Scriptorium from 1997 to today. It feels as though the company has been around forever, but also as though 20 years went by in a flash.
My 2017 trend is the impact of machine translation on content strategy.
Our web site was starting to look a little haggard, so we finally decided to have some work done. Of course, our own content assets and content strategy always take a backseat to client work, so it took roughly forever to make this a priority.
After the anti-DITA insurrection at tekom 2015, the 2016 conference took a turn in a different direction.
Here are a few highlights. Keep in mind that the conference is huge; it would take a platoon of people to cover the 250 technical sessions.
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