Want to increase the findability and usability of your content? Yitz Gale will show you how to use subject scheme maps and DITA classification map elements to ensure that your users can quickly reach the content relevant to them. Go beyond the traditional ToC to help your users reach the topics they care about.

1. Advanced DITA Webinar
Increase with Subject Schemes
Yitz Gale, DITA Software Architect
Miryam Brand, Marketing Communications
Findability

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3. Increase findability with subject schemes
 Why subject schemes?
 Creating a subject scheme
 Creating classification maps
 Finding content using semantic facets

4. Why subject schemes?
• Findability is crucial
• What findability did we have until now?
• Semantic search makes content more
findable!

5. Findability is crucial
• Customers leave if they can’t find content
within minutes
• You’ve invested in content – is anyone reading
it?
• Just putting it up isn’t good enough!

6. What findability did we have until now?
• ToC
• Multiple ToCs
• Index
• Full text search

7. Semantic search
• Use facets that have meaning for the user
• Filter based on these meaningful facets
• Don’t constrain the user to any particular
order
• Example (Zappo’s)

8. Semantic search in DITA
• Subject scheme
• Classification map:
A ditamap that contains classification
domain elements

9. Increase findability with subject schemes
 Why subject schemes?
 Creating a subject scheme
 Creating classification maps
 Finding content using semantic facets
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10. Subject Scheme
Taxonomy:
Hierarchy of subjects
• Navtitle:
Name of the subject
(Appears as a facet in the faceted search)
• Key:
Symbolic name for referring to a subject
within XML

11. Subject Scheme
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE subjectScheme PUBLIC
"-//OASIS//DTD DITA Subject Scheme Map//EN”
"map.dtd”>
<subjectScheme>
<subjectHead navtitle="Product">
<subjectdef keys="prod-ats9900" navtitle="ATS9900">
<subjectdef keys=”ver-V100R5C2200”
navtitle="V100R005C02"/>
<subjectdef keys="ver-V100R9C2200”
navtitle="V100R009C02"/>
</subjectdef>

12. Increase findability with subject schemes
 Why subject schemes?
 Creating a subject scheme
 Creating classification maps
 Finding content using semantic facets
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13. Classification Map
• Classifies your content according to the
subject scheme
• Each entry associates one subject to one topic
• Can include many entries for each topic

14. Classification Map
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<map xmlns:ditaarch=
"http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/"
title="Demo” xml:lang="en-us”
ditaarch:DITAArchVersion="1.2">
<topicref href=”path/to/name.xml">
<topicsubject>
<subjectref keyref="prod-ats9900"/>
<subjectref keyref="ver-V200R9C02"/>
</topicsubject>
</topicref>
</map>

15. Increase findability with subject schemes
 Why subject schemes?
 Creating a subject scheme
 Creating classification maps
 Finding content using semantic facets
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16. Increase findability with subject schemes
 Why subject schemes?
 Creating a subject scheme
 Creating classification maps
 Finding content using semantic facets
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17. THANK YOU !
Visit us at http://suite-sol.com/
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