In Lovely DITA, DocBook Fades?, Edd Dumbill asks if “the mass of enthusiasm” for DITA means DocBook is on its way out? Nope, he says, each standard fills a void. He compares DocBook to DITA and provides his views on the likely success of both standards. While Dumbill thinks DITA is “impressively engineered”, he says it may also be “too industrial-strength for many”.
In this E-Business Advisory from the analysts at Molecular, the authors explore the collection and development of content management metrics, including whether “productivity wins are mostly illusory”. Find out if you’re only looking at half of the content management metrics picture. If so, chances are you’re missing some key metrics. Read the article.
Sun Microsystems DocBook guru Norm Walsh attended the recent DITA 2006 conference in Raleigh, NC. Here’s what Walsh had to say about the event and the DITA versus DocBook argument. “I only saw a few hours of the DITA conference, but I think it was a good show. I wish I’d seen more. I remain skeptical about some aspects of the DITA vision, but that’s not really important. Reasonable people can disagree about the details. The DITA and DocBook approaches differ somewhat, and there are a lot of differences down …
If you were unable to listen to DITA 2006 Live, now’s your chance. The folks at the MyTechnologyLawyer.com Radio Show have archived both shows (over four hours of radio programming), making them available in streaming audio format (you’ll need Windows MediaPlayer to listen). In the future, after some post-production cleanup, the files will be made available in .mp3 format—perfect for use in your iPod—as well as on compact disc. Listen to DITA 2006 Live (part 1 and part 2).
Day Two of the DITA 2006 Conference was an exciting one, indeed…loaded with interesting presentations and activities. I had a great time co-hosting four hours of internet radio programming with Scott Draughon, host of MyTechnologyLawyer internet radio show. There were so many listeners to the morning program that we exceeded capacity (500 listeners) and some folks were unable to listen in. Archived versions of the programs are in post-production now and will be made available soon on compact disc. The show guests offered up valuable information, some of which had …
Today is the first of three full days of educational sessions and hands on workshops at DITA 2006, the first annual conference focusing exclusively on the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. The event is well attended (about 200 participants) and includes technical communicators from the United States and Canada, as well as from South Africa, the United Kingdom and Japan. The exhibition area includes a small—but relevant—group of vendors touting their latest software and services aimed at the DITA audience. CMS vendor SiberLogic is giving away a nifty Pocket Guide to …
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) today announced the release of the DITA XML.org Focus Area, a website that the organization describes as “the community gathering place and information resource for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), an approved OASIS Standard that builds content reuse into the authoring process. “Interest in DITA is tremendous right now, and there is strong support in the community for a resource to share information,” noted Don Day of IBM, chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. “The DITA XML.org Focus …
Today I am reporting from the IBM campus in Raleigh, NC during Day Zero of the DITA 2006 Conference. I’m attending the Introduction to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture workshop, taught by IBM DITA guru Michael Priestley. This full day workshop is jam-packed (standing room only) with technical writers and documentation managers from around the globe. Priestley started the workshop with a brief history of DITA, outlining the markup languages that have come before DITA, and the goals and vision set forth by IBM to handle the hundreds of thousands …
Optaros, an open source consulting and systems integration firm, has released a new whitepaper entitled, Unleashing the Power of Open Source in Document Management. According to Optaros, the whitepaper explores “the differences between enterprise content management and document management, overall functions of document management, and why open source is well positioned to help with enterprise challenges. Seven open source document management solutions are reviewed in terms of architecture and the main categories of functionality.” Read the whitepaper.
If you’re looking to convince your boss that content management is a smart move, you’re going to need some ammunition. Here you’ll find links to web sites where you can learn about the hurdles preventing some organizations from adopting content management, what the common business drivers are, and how to determine total cost of implementation. Knowing this information up front can help you make the case for adopting content management, prepare an appropriate budget, and develop a reasonable project plan to help you avoid the mistakes made by others. Implementing …
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