Adobe DITAWORLD
Sarah O’Keefe is delivering the Wednesday closing keynote, Closing the Gap: Getting design teams and XML teams onto the same page, on March 17th at 6:00 p.m. ET.
DITA: The next generation (podcast)
In episode 83 of The Content Strategy Experts podcast, Gretyl Kinsey and Jake Campbell talk about the next generation of DITA. What happens when you need to update your existing DITA structure?
“When you’re building everything out the first time around, you can do as much user acceptance testing as you want—but the best user acceptance testing is going to be live testing.”
—Jake Campbell
Adobe DITAWORLD 2020
Sarah O’Keefe is presenting Leveraging DITA for enterprise content needs on Wednesday, October 7th at 7:00 p.m. ET. She will explore different ways to exchange DITA content with marketing, e-learning, support, software development, and others across the enterprise.
Information architecture in DITA XML (podcast)
In episode 80 of The Content Strategy Experts podcast, Gretyl Kinsey and Sarah O’Keefe discuss information architecture in DITA XML and other forms.
“You have to look at information architecture in metadata starting from a taxonomy point of view. This means you are looking at the structure of the content as well as the organization of the data that’s used for search and filtering.”
—Gretyl Kinsey
DITA migration strategies
Migrating to DITA means more than just adding element tags. There are a few common holes in migration strategies that can prevent you from reaping all of the benefits of the converted DITA content. To avoid that mistake, make sure you have a plan in place for:
- Identifying and migrating reused content
- Managing links
- Processing images
These should be important factors when migrating your content to DITA, and they will require new workflows and changes in the way you handle the relationships in your content.
Improving DITA workflow
An organization’s first foray in DITA and structured content is most often driven by one of the following:
- Merger or acquisition: After a merger, the organization needs to refactor content workflows and so they decide to move into structured content and DITA.
- Localization: The organization is growing and needs to ramp up content production in many languages.
- Smart content: The organization recognizes content as a key business asset and wants to wring maximum value out of the content lifecycle.
InDesign and DITA (webinar)
Jake Campbell talks about how you can utilize automated processes in a high-design environment.
“When we’re looking at high-design, we have a focus on form. When we’re looking at automated workflows, we’re looking at a focus on the content itself.”
—Jake Campbell
Surviving and thriving with AEM and DITA webcast
This webcast discusses general best practices for CCMS implementations, along with a specific focus on the AEM DITA CCMS. Attendees will learn how the DITA XML content architecture fits into the larger AEM ecosystem and explore a variety of options for content integration and delivery.
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InDesign and DITA webcast
Curious about using DITA in InDesign? Join Jake Campbell as he talks about how you can utilize automated processes in a high-design environment.
Recording will be available soon.
Getting started with DITA (podcast, part 2)
In episode 72 of The Content Strategy Experts Podcast, Gretyl Kinsey and Barbara Green of ACS Technologies continue their discussion about getting started with DITA.
“We experienced far more change than I anticipated from the time Scriptorium first came in to evaluate our situation. I remember you saying, “Expect change, expect resistance to change,” but reality is the great teacher of life.”
—Barbara Green
