DITA, Metadata Maturity, & the Case for TaxonomyTaxonomy Community of Practice SeriesWednesday September 2nd, 1:00 PM ETPaul WlodarczykDirector, Solutions Consulting, Earley & AssociatesErik HennumInformation Model Architect, IBMRobert BerryInformation Developer, IBMMike HarrisInformation Architect, IBM

DITA creates smaller needles in a bigger haystackIf you had 1000 documents under management, each with 100 reusable parts (e.g. procedures), now you have 100,000 objects under managementYou can browse folders to find things – but that only works for small teams familiar with the contentFull text search gets too many hits…Solution: use metadata to improve the findability of DITA content for reuseWe’d expect organizations with DITA or other component reuse to be more mature in their adoption of metadata and taxonomy best practices.This isn’t exactly what we found…2

Join us for this webcast as we explore… Survey results revealing the current state of the practice in taxonomy and metadata for organizations that use XMLState of current practices in tagging DITA contentGood, better, and best practices for tagging and searching modular contentThe value of taxonomy in improving metadata governance and search3

DITA taxonomy specializationDITA 1.2 adds new capabilities for creating and managing metadata. Create DITA maps to represent hierarchies of values.Scalable approach to managing metadataCreate DITA topics for values.48/30/2009

IBM User Technologies adoption, experience and governance. IBM User Technologies uses the DITA taxonomy specialization to create and manage metadata. Faceted browse and search in the IBM Systems online documentation. IBM User Technologies implementation notes and plans for governance. 58/30/2009

DITA, Metadata Maturity, & the Case for TaxonomyTaxonomy Community of Practice SeriesWednesday September 2nd, 1:00 PM ETPaul WlodarczykDirector, Solutions Consulting, Earley & AssociatesErik HennumInformation Model Architect, IBMRobert BerryInformation Developer, IBMMike HarrisInformation Architect, IBM