Strange bedfellows: InDesign and DITA
or, What you need to know before you start working on a DITA to InDesign project.
Managing implementation of structured authoring
An updated version of this white paper is in Content Strategy 101. Read the entire book free online, or download the free EPUB edition.
Moving a desktop publishing–based workgroup into structured authoring requires authors to master new concepts, such as hierarchical content organization, information chunking with elements, and metadata labeling with attributes. In addition to these technical challenges, the implementation itself presents significant difficulties. This paper describes Scriptorium Publishing’s methodology for implementing structured authoring environments. This document is intended primarily as a roadmap for our clients, but it could be used as a starting point for any implementation.
