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 Read the full article…
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 Read the full article…
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. Read the full article…
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, Read the full article…
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. Read the full article…
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 Read the full article…
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.
Structured Blogging: Getting On Board
In a post to the structured blogging listserv, Jon Mandell of PubSub Concepts provided a brief overview of the state of structured blogging including a few hints as to what the future holds for the extremely popular open source weblog movement. Some of the goals Mandell identified for structured blogging include: Continue collect feedback (lots of positive feedback since announcement at Syndicate 2005 Develop new schemas as requested (some ideas include structures to support “recipes” and one to support “offers to sell”) Focus on demonstrating compelling end-user benefits Aggregated events Read the full article…
Music: Bridging the Semantic Gap
If you’re like most of us, you’ve likely heard a song you like and thought “I wish I could find more music like that!” Researchers working on the Semantic Interaction with Music Audio Contents (SIMAC) project, are developing a prototype system that will be able to recommend music you might like based on its actual properties. SIMAC researchers have developed a method of generating semantic descriptors (tags) for music that describe its characteristics. Songs can now be categorized by their musical properties—rhythm, beats per minute, timbre, harmony, key, structure and Read the full article…
DITA OpenToolkit
If you’re one of the thousands of technical content creators, documentation managers, vendors, teachers, and consultants interested in learning more about the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), you should definitely bookmark and return often to visit the DITA OpenToolkit website. The DITA Open Toolkit is an implementation of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee’s specification for DITA DTDs and Schemas. The Toolkit transforms DITA content (maps and topics) into deliverable formats. According to the organizers, “The long term goal of the DITA Open Toolkit is to provide a high quality implementation Read the full article…
Increased Innovation With Structured Blogging
In How Structured Blogging and Microformats Will Help Your Company Innovate, IT consultant Rod Boothby takes a look a few of the business innovation possibilities structured blogging provides. Find out why Boothby thinks structured bloging “has the potential to revolutionize the way people in the firm work and share information.” Boothby offers up a few examples and provides links to other interesting content, including a recent post in which he explains how AJAX killed Microsoft Word. To understand the power of structured blogging, take a peek at this example made Read the full article…
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