An Unconventional Tool for Content Authoring
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TimBox is a tool for authoring technical documents that focuses on organizing content by meaning rather than document structure or layout. It allows users to create reusable content modules, structure information into tasks and sections, and define relationships between different content types. Documents can then be published in various formats or exported to standardized XML formats through stylesheet application and content transformation. The tool aims to make technical writing more modular, reusable, and less tied to specific document outputs.
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An Unconventional Tool for Content Authoring
- 1. AN UNCONVENTIONAL TOOL シンプルなツール
- 2. What makes generating XML content with TimBox convenient? AUTHORING PROFILING PUBLISHING CONVERTING SHARING Content-centred authoring Choice of the content Defining layout by means Exporting to Disseminating instead of document- to be included in of stylesheets and standardized XML documents on DropBox oriented authoring document releases publishing in any format formats (DITA) and Wikimedia and … no XML tag manipulation whatsoever
- 3. Content-centred authoring MEANING- INFORMATION CONTENT MODULARITY CENTRED DESIGN REUSE STRUCTURING Creating from Document- Writing whole Structuring scratch / copy- centred design documents documents pasting Document-centred authoring
- 4. AUTHORING Organise content on the basis of meaning [Wysiwym], not of layout [Wysiwyg] Most technical documents contain mainly procedures. Procedures are made out of tasks. Therefore, tasks are the most natural unit to organise content within technical documents This is a TimBox Task Hierarchy MEANING- CENTRED DESIGN
- 5. AUTHORING Organise content on the basis of meaning [Wysiwym], not of layout [Wysiwyg] Most technical documents contain mainly procedures. Procedures are made out of tasks. Therefore, tasks are the most natural unit to organise content within technical documents This is a TimBox Task Content MEANING- CENTRED DESIGN
- 6. AUTHORING Organise content on the basis of meaning [Wysiwym], not of layout [Wysiwyg] Most technical documents contain mainly procedures. Procedures are made out of tasks. Therefore, tasks are the most natural unit to organise content within technical documents These are TimBox Task Types The quality of a task-structure depends on the distinctions between task types. Being able to identify conditional tasks, optional and mandatory sub-tasks, tasks that have to be performed several times to reach the goal [cyclic tasks], etc. is a requirement for a sound description of how work has to be performed. MEANING- TimBox is the only software CENTRED DESIGN to allow such distinctions.
- 7. AUTHORING Organise content on the basis of meaning [Wysiwym], not of layout [Wysiwyg] Although tasks are the default content of manuals and any type of instructions, descriptions and explanations are also necessary in technical documents These are TimBox containers for unstructured information MEANING- CENTRED DESIGN
- 8. AUTHORING Create reusable content Reusable tasks can be stored in the task library and are available for any project. TimBox stores reusable Tasks here INFORMATION REUSE
- 9. AUTHORING Create reusable content Reusable text can be stored in the Repository and is available for any project. TimBox stores reusable text here INFORMATION REUSE
- 10. AUTHORING Create reusable content Reusable information structures can be stored in the Related Information Library and are available for any project. They allow to add auxiliary information to task and to task-independent containers TimBox stores reusable information structures here INFORMATION REUSE
- 11. AUTHORING Create content as small units [modules], not as whole documents MODULARITY task modules unstructured info modules expressions structures for auxiliary info
- 12. AUTHORING Reuse existing content MODULARITY copy and clone tasks in the hierarchy drag and drop library elements onto the task hierarchy and into the task content tasks and unstructured info modules expressions structures for auxiliary info
- 13. AUTHORING Write after models of content, not after models of documents CONTENT STRUCTURING WORK Task Task Task Task pre- input output side-effect procedure condition • action • action • action
- 14. AUTHORING Define the structure of the content, generate the structure of documents CONTENT STRUCTURING
- 15. UPDATING Update units of content instead of updating whole documents Add, delete, modify, re-order tasks and or sections and re-publish the document tasks sections
- 16. PROFILING Select created content for delivery instead of creating content for final documents While publishing a document or sharing it, you can choose the desired content by blocks
- 17. PUBLISHING Apply stylesheets to obtain different layouts for the same document content
- 18. PUBLISHING Enable publishing of documents in different formats [PDF, RTF, XML, HTML, CHM ...]
- 19. CONVERTING Enable XML content transformation into standardized formats [DITA, DOCBOOK ...]
- 20. SHARING Share sources and documents on clouds and wikis
- 21. DEMO デモ
- 22. THANK YOU ! ありがとうございました！ info@timgroup.fr | www.timgroup.fr