September 2 Taxonomy CoP: DITA, Metadata Maturity, & the Case for Taxonomy

DITA, Metadata Maturity, & the Case for Taxonomy
Taxonomy Community of Practice Series
Wednesday September 2nd, 1:00 PM ET
Paul Wlodarczyk
Director, Solutions Consulting, Earley & Associates
Erik Hennum
Information Model Architect, IBM
Robert Berry
Information Developer, IBM
Mike Harris
Information Architect, IBM

DITA creates smaller needles in a bigger haystack
If you had 1000 documents under management, each with 100 reusable parts (e.g. procedures), now you have 100,000 objects under management
You can browse folders to find things – but that only works for small teams familiar with the content
Full text search gets too many hits…
Solution: use metadata to improve the findability of DITA content for reuse
We’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…
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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 XML
State of current practices in tagging DITA content
Good, better, and best practices for tagging and searching modular content
The value of taxonomy in improving metadata governance and search
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DITA taxonomy specialization
DITA 1.2 adds new capabilities for creating and managing metadata.
Create DITA maps to represent hierarchies of values.
Scalable approach to managing metadata
Create DITA topics for values.
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8/30/2009

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.
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8/30/2009

DITA, Metadata Maturity, & the Case for Taxonomy
Taxonomy Community of Practice Series
Wednesday September 2nd, 1:00 PM ET
Paul Wlodarczyk
Director, Solutions Consulting, Earley & Associates
Erik Hennum
Information Model Architect, IBM
Robert Berry
Information Developer, IBM
Mike Harris
Information Architect, IBM

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September 2 Taxonomy CoP: DITA, Metadata Maturity, & the Case for Taxonomy

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