Pardon us for tooting our own horn here, but we are putting on a webinar on Thursday June 11th at 2:00 pm ET called Using DITA to Streamline Your Workflow [1]. The webinar is sponsored by Just Systems [2] and features Gilbane Group [3] analysts and DITA experts, Bill Trippe and Dale Waldt. I will be hosting.
We are putting on this webinar because of the increasing interest in XML as a content delivery format. It offers a lot of advantages including the ability to chunk content into meaningful, reusable pieces that you can repurpose across different publishing venues. For instance, you might have a content description that would work for several manuals and several webpages. There can be tremendous efficiency in this approach when it's done right.
The problem is that it's not a simple proposition to set up a system like this. It takes time, patience, effort and a willingness to be in it for the long haul, but if it succeeds it can make publishing a much more streamlined, effective and cheaper system.
Our webinar will look at the pros and cons of this approach and provide you with a real-world case study of it in action. You will have the opportunity to ask Bill and Dale questions after the presentations.
Related Articles:
Will IBM-Quark partnership help mainstream DITA? [4]
MadCap unveils DITA roadmap [5]
Quark announces XML editor for Word [6]
Altova announces XMLSpy 2009 [7]
Links:
[1] http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=144927&s=1&k=4EB51E764F2EAE26CCD696F2D8F6CA8B&partnerref=rmiller-sn
[2] http://na.justsystems.com/index.php
[3] http://gilbane.com/
[4] http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/ibm-teams-quark-dita-solution/2009-05-13
[5] http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/madcap-unveils-dita-road-map/2008-11-05
[6] http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/spotlight-quark-announces-xml-editor-word/2009-04-03
[7] http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/spotlight-altova-releases-xmlspy-2009/2009-03-10