New Indianapolis DITA User Group Announced
Precisely Write has created an Indianapolis DITA user group, known as IndyDITA.
The Next Big Thing In Searching
In The Next Big Thing In Searching, Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica E. Vascellaro reports on “tagging”. To quote: “Tagging addresses a common complaint of many Internet users–that searching is often clumsy and inefficient. Web surfers often must sift through multiple pages of search results to find what they are looking for. And retrieving the best sites a second time often means redoing the search or trolling through an unorganized list of sites that you have haphazardly saved in a ‘favorites’ folder.” Vascellaro points out the benefits of tagging, saying …
Jon Udell on Structured Blogging
In Moving Forward with Microformats, Jon Udell asks: “Here’s hoping that somebody will take the next step this year and extend structured search—at least for a handful of well-known information types—across the whole blogosophere.”
Meaningfuel.org: The Metadata Dictionary Wiki
Meaningfuel.org is a metadata dictionary that anyone can edit—sort of a Wikipedia for metadata. Its goal is to build a coherent evolving metadata dictionary for describing anything, by combining new and existing object metadata. According to the organizers, “Our goal is to build a coherent evolving metadata dictionary for describing anything, by combining new and existing object metadata. Meaningfuel is not concerned with formats, only structures.” While Meaningfuel.org may be a good idea, it is still in its formative stage. Many of the hyperlinks point to empty pages (no help …
Integrating DITA at Idiom Technologies
In Integrating DITA at Idiom Technologies, Bright Path Solutions interviews Willie Williams, Senior Technical Writer at Idiom Technologies, about the enterprise globalization software provider’s venture into the world of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). Discover why Idiom decided to adopt the OASIS DITA standard and what benefits its authoring team hopes to enjoy. Find out if Idiom found it necessary to specialize DITA or whether they were able to use it “out-of-the-box”—and why. Discover valuable lessons learned, useful metrics, and what content reusability and globalization benefits DITA provided Idiom. …
DITA: It ain’t that new!
Although the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) seems like it’s brand-spankin’ new to many technical communicators, DITA has been around for quite a while. In fact, it has taken several years for it to garner significant attention in the technical communication industry, despite the efforts of Michael Priestley, Gretchen Hargis, and Susan Carpenter, who authored this August 2001 Society for Technical Communication journal article DITA: An XML-based Technical Documentation Authoring and Publishing Architecture (Technical Communication, Vol. 48, No. 3). Read DITA: An XML-based Technical Documentation Authoring and Publishing Architecture (16-pages, …
Louis Rosenfeld’s New Publishing Adventure
Usability and information architecture guru, Louis Rosenfeld, just launched a new company, Rosenfeld Media, dedicated to the publication of short, practical books on user experience design. “I hope Rosenfeld Media will be a bit different than traditional publishers,” said Rosenfeld in a company announcement. “We’ll do our best to utilize UX best practices to inform our own design decisions: namely, what books to publish, and what forms and design formats our books should employ. We also hope to involve practitioners in the process as much as we can,” Rosenfeld said. …
Global Content Management Experts Elected to CM Pros
Content Management Professionals (CM Pros), the international content management community of practice, today announced that Mary Laplante and Scott Abel have been elected to the 2006-2007 CM Pros Board of Directors and that Janus Boye and Mollye Barrett have been elected to serve on the organization
NewsZingo: Google News In Clouds
It all started with this little January 5, 2006 post based on the concept of tree maps. Since then, Newzingo has become a popular—and useful—online destination. Thursday, January 05, 2006 – Newzingo! Newzingo – Automatically tagging Google news and displaying the tag cloud proved to create a real-time news map of world events. The map (or cloud as geeks like to call it), changes constantly as the never ending flow of world events are transformed into news items, and captured visually by Newzingo. In short, Newzingo presents information in a …
Petition: Bring Back Adobe FrameMaker for Macintosh
If you’re a Macintosh user that longs for Adobe Systems to bring back FrameMaker for the Mac, you’re not alone. When this post was made, over 3300 people had signed a petition asking Adobe to bring back FrameMaker for Macintosh OS X. Discover who is asking Adobe to bring back FrameMaker for the Macintosh. Sign the petition.
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