This document provides an overview of XML authoring simplified for all using DITA and FrameMaker. It begins with some housekeeping notes and then covers:
1. Setting up FrameMaker preferences for DITA authoring
2. An overview of DITA topics, maps, and specializations
3. Introduction to core DITA topic types and elements
4. Using maps to organize content
5. Examples of concept, task, and reference topic types
6. Publishing content from DITA maps using the native FrameMaker publisher or DITA Open Toolkit
7. Customizing DITA Open Toolkit output
The document emphasizes making DITA authoring easy for SME contributors
Content creation, reuse, and publishing to everyone on every devicePublishing Smarter
Use Adobe FrameMaker and its conditional text settings to create content unique to your audience and allow them to choose exactly what they read. Step-by-step instructions make it easy to get started, and explore powerful ideas.
In this latest installment of the O365 Productivity Tips series, Tom Duff (@duffbert) and Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) return with another head-to-head battle of the Microsoft Office and Office 365 productivity hints and tips, recorded June 20th, 2019 with viewers voting on each round. You can watch the video recording at https://youtu.be/0ZMD0RScBaQ
Follow us on Twitter for future webinars and sessions where we'll share more great tips, and be sure to follow the CollabTalk YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/c/collabtalk
Gone through articles and presentations on the web and got a half-baked understanding of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)?
Refer to my DITA Quick Start presentation for the 2007 STC India Conference to learn to evaluate, plan and start implementing DITA.
In this presentation, you will learn about the following:
o Structured authoring and XML
o Key DITA concepts: topics, maps, specialization
o DITA architecture and content model
o Authoring in topics
o Organizing content using DITA maps
o Creating relationship tables
o Conditional text and reuse in DITA
o Metadata support in DITA
o DITA tools, standards and processes
o Publishing with the DITA Open Toolkit
Advantages to authoring in a topic based environment
*. More efficient
*. Structure helps produce better content
*. Takes advantage of new technologies for delivering content
I plan to share the best way to
*. Assess your current situation
*. Plan for your future and
*. Execute to the plan
After the presentation, you will:
*. Understand what topic–based writing is and its advantages
*. Follow best–practices for organizing new material into topic–based content
*. Understand the place of XML and DITA and how they may relate to your needs
Advantages to authoring in a topic based environment
*. More efficient
*. Structure helps produce better content
*. Takes advantage of new technologies for delivering content
I plan to share the best way to
*. Assess your current situation
*. Plan for your future and
*. Execute to the plan
After the presentation, you will:
*. Understand what topic–based writing is and its advantages
*. Follow best–practices for organizing new material into topic–based content
*. Understand the place of XML and DITA and how they may relate to your needs
XML for Humans: Non-geek Discussion of a Geek-chic TopicPublishing Smarter
This session, presented at the Editors Conference in Toronto, on June 8, 2014, introduces you to the basics of XML, explaining what it is, how it is used, and why it benefits people who write and edit.
While THEY may love to work with code, the goal was to put as much of this into plain language for US as possible. I think it succeeded.
Participants could learn how clear and concise content can be created (and managed) in an XML workflow. At the end of the session they had enough knowledge to speak about XML with confidence.
During the session detailed slides were presented and discussed. A packed room attended and participated (the session featured a lot of great questions and answers) over the span of an hour.
Content creation, reuse, and publishing to everyone on every devicePublishing Smarter
Use Adobe FrameMaker and its conditional text settings to create content unique to your audience and allow them to choose exactly what they read. Step-by-step instructions make it easy to get started, and explore powerful ideas.
In this latest installment of the O365 Productivity Tips series, Tom Duff (@duffbert) and Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) return with another head-to-head battle of the Microsoft Office and Office 365 productivity hints and tips, recorded June 20th, 2019 with viewers voting on each round. You can watch the video recording at https://youtu.be/0ZMD0RScBaQ
Follow us on Twitter for future webinars and sessions where we'll share more great tips, and be sure to follow the CollabTalk YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/c/collabtalk
Gone through articles and presentations on the web and got a half-baked understanding of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)?
Refer to my DITA Quick Start presentation for the 2007 STC India Conference to learn to evaluate, plan and start implementing DITA.
In this presentation, you will learn about the following:
o Structured authoring and XML
o Key DITA concepts: topics, maps, specialization
o DITA architecture and content model
o Authoring in topics
o Organizing content using DITA maps
o Creating relationship tables
o Conditional text and reuse in DITA
o Metadata support in DITA
o DITA tools, standards and processes
o Publishing with the DITA Open Toolkit
Advantages to authoring in a topic based environment
*. More efficient
*. Structure helps produce better content
*. Takes advantage of new technologies for delivering content
I plan to share the best way to
*. Assess your current situation
*. Plan for your future and
*. Execute to the plan
After the presentation, you will:
*. Understand what topic–based writing is and its advantages
*. Follow best–practices for organizing new material into topic–based content
*. Understand the place of XML and DITA and how they may relate to your needs
Advantages to authoring in a topic based environment
*. More efficient
*. Structure helps produce better content
*. Takes advantage of new technologies for delivering content
I plan to share the best way to
*. Assess your current situation
*. Plan for your future and
*. Execute to the plan
After the presentation, you will:
*. Understand what topic–based writing is and its advantages
*. Follow best–practices for organizing new material into topic–based content
*. Understand the place of XML and DITA and how they may relate to your needs
XML for Humans: Non-geek Discussion of a Geek-chic TopicPublishing Smarter
This session, presented at the Editors Conference in Toronto, on June 8, 2014, introduces you to the basics of XML, explaining what it is, how it is used, and why it benefits people who write and edit.
While THEY may love to work with code, the goal was to put as much of this into plain language for US as possible. I think it succeeded.
Participants could learn how clear and concise content can be created (and managed) in an XML workflow. At the end of the session they had enough knowledge to speak about XML with confidence.
During the session detailed slides were presented and discussed. A packed room attended and participated (the session featured a lot of great questions and answers) over the span of an hour.
DITA PUBLISHING: The True Cost of Taking your DITA Content OnlineWebWorks
The aim of this paper is to compare the true cost of ownership associated with publishing DITA-XML content using the DITA Open Tool Kit and the WebWorks ePublisher Platform.
Content creation, reuse, and publishing to everyone on every device (WritersUA)Publishing Smarter
Timing is everything. It's crucial to quickly create content for multiple audiences, manage reuse effectively, and publish to an audience that needs: the right information, at the right time, in the right format. You can follow up and in a hands-on way you: create content for multiple audiences, in seconds generate dynamic HTML5 content, do so at the click of a button
Text-rich, illustration-heavy, table-filled, overly-hyphenated manuals and docs sit on the shelf and never get read.
Today, we read information in the format we want, on whatever device we want, and with just enough information to support what we need to do.
Learn more about topic-based writing, what it is and what it can do for your approach to documentation.
Any device, any time, any format.
Is your technical content development organization considering a move to structured authoring and/or DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture)? This presentation provides a high-level introduction to what DITA is--and what the benefits of moving to DITA are. DITA is an excellent solution for many--but not all--organizations and projects. This introduction can help you begin to understand why DITA may or may not be a good solution for you.
What’s new in DITA 1.3?
by Yas Etessam, DITA Consultant and Leigh White, DITA Specialist at IXIASOFT
Come and learn about the new proposed DITA 1.3 features. Leigh and Yas will provide an overview of the new architectural features including extensions to the DITA core vocabulary, Online Help vocabularies, scoped keys, branched filtering and enhancements to the Learning and Training, Troubleshooting and Table specializations.
Painless XML Authoring?: How DITA Simplifies XMLScott Abel
Presented at DocTrain East 2007 by Bob Doyle, DITA Users -- This introduction to XML Authoring will acquaint you with over fifty tools aimed at structuring content with DITA. They are not just DITA-compliant authoring tools (editors) for writers. They also include content management systems (CMS), translation management systems (TMS), and dynamic publishing engines that fully support DITA. You will also need to know about tools that convert legacy documents to DITA and help to design stylesheets for DITA deliverables. The best DITA tools for technical communicators implement the DITA standard while hiding all the complexity of the underlying XML (eXtensible Markup Language).
As a tech writer and not a tech, you should be able to forget about XML - except to know that you are using it (DITA is XML) and that it consists of named content elements (or components) with attributes. You need to know enough about the content elements so you can reference (conref) them for reuse. You need to know about their attributes so you can filter on them for conditional processing. And you should appreciate that because components are uniquely identifiable they lend themselves perfectly to automated dynamic assembly using a publishing engine.
We will describe how you can get started with structured writing without knowing XML or installing anything.
The promise of topic-based structured authoring is not simply better documentation. It is the creation of mission-critical information for your organization, written with a deep understanding of your most important audiences, that can be repurposed to multiple delivery channels and localized for multilingual global markets. You are not just writing content, you are preparing the information deliverables that enhance the value of your organization in all its markets.
To do that well, you must understand the latest tools in structured writing that are revolutionizing corporate information systems - today in documentation but tomorrow throughout the enterprise, from external marketing to internal human resources. Whether you are trying to push a new product into a new market or are “onboarding” a new employee, the need for high quality information to educate the customer or train the new salesperson is a challenge for technical communicators. You need to think outside the docs!
The key idea behind Darwin Information Typing Architecture is to create content in small chunks or modules called topics. A topic is the right size when it can stand alone as meaningful information. Topics are then assembled into documents using DITA maps, which are hierarchical lists of pointers or links to topics. The pointers are called “topicrefs” (for topic references).
Think of documents as assembled from single-source component parts. Assembly can be conditional, dependent on properties or metadata “tags” you attach to a topic. For example, the “audience” property might be “beginner” or “advanced.”
At a still finer level of granularity, individual elements of a topic can also be assigned property tags for conditional assembly. More importantly, a topic element can be assigned a unique ID that makes it a content component reusable in other topics.
As you will learn, DITA is a leading technology for “component content management,” which multiplies the value of your work. You need to leverage DITA and structured content to multiply your income.
Introduction to XML and Structured Authoring • Overview of DITA • Topics: The Basic Information Types • Maps: Assembling Topics into Deliverables • Common elements and attributes • Metadata • Examples and exercises
Sometimes, a spontaneous road trip can be a lot of fun, as long as you’re willing to take the good with the bad—getting lost, car trouble, unfriendly (or just plain weird) natives, bad diner food. Usually, though, the most successful trips involve planning, roadmaps, and best of all, guidance from people who’ve already been there.
The journey from traditional, deliverable-centric content creation to DITA-based content creation falls into this second category. In this session, we talk about one small publication group’s experience moving to DITA, from the initial discussions to the successful implementation of a FrameMaker-based, end-to-end publication process. Here are some of the high points of the project; we’ll discuss our decision-making process and some of our technical approaches in detail in the session.
This 2-hour tutorial was presented at the tcworld 2011 conference in Wiesbaden. It shows how you do not have to use the DITA Open Toolkit, Ant scripts, native XML editors and XSL-FO or other transformations to use DITA and create output in a variety of formats. DITA for the rest of us. It is NOT a tutorial about DITA - check out my DITA for Dummies to find that type of info.
The DITA Learning and Training SpecializationIXIASOFT
The DITA Learning and Training Specialization
by Jason Owen, DITA Specialist at IXIASOFT
DITA includes the Learning and Training specialization, which is designed for developing instructional materials. Instructional content can be developed in DITA CMS using this specialization. Technical content can be reused in Learning and Training specialization maps.
Make the move from basic documents to structured documentsPublishing Smarter
Word is great when you have content that is managed by SharePoint, or based on standard and highly-enforced templates, or you have a team of developers to support your team of writers. However, there are too many ways for too many people to cause too many problems. Style overrides, manual formats, or just incorrect use of a template can haunt good content. You spend time and effort to make content great; now put a little bit more time into getting to know a tool that isn’t created for everyone. It’s created for those of us who work in technical communication. It’s time for Adobe FrameMaker.
In this session, you will learn how to
» Evaluate a Word document for content quality
» Rework content for a topic-based model
» Import a Word file to Adobe FrameMaker
» Create a structured workflow
» Migrate legacy content to a structured format
» Move your content to a CCMS
» Publish single sourced content to multiple channels, formats & devices
Make It All About Your Audience (Deliver What They Want, How They Want, When ...Publishing Smarter
It’s all about the audience and we hear that all the time. Know your audience. Articles and discussions abound about the informed consumer, audience metrics, and personas. How do you actually organize and create content geared to multiple audiences?
Learn tips and techniques for planning, writing, and publishing which help you deliver the right information, to the right audience, in the right format, at the right time, and let them make the right decisions.
By using features most people don't even think about you can take a set of tools (for example, FrameMaker, Excel, and PowerPoint) and create a set of materials that let you track some initial metrics, build up reports, and track content in ways that the tool vendors never dreamed off. There are a dozen easy shortcuts (or more) that you can use with any toolset, even free ones like Google Docs to simplify the work you do every day. Want to quickly build a list of every graphic you have across 10 folders? Need to know which of your procedural steps are WAY too long but don't want to manually go hunting? If you often find yourself thinking "it's got to be easier" then this is the session for you. The goal is to get you out the door with at least 4 new tricks to make your job easier.
Those who attend will be better positioned to use their tools to make life (at least in the world of documentation) easier. It's not pretty, it's not all that future friendly, or XML-based, or taking the newest tips in HTML5 to heart. But it's useful. And useable. These are the tips that the experts in the field use to bypass so much of the manual time and effort that steals away your day.
A dozen (or more) tips and tricks to get you humming as you get handed the next daunting task. No one wants to do the manual and labour intensive work that often goes into content analysis, or report building, or file management. Sure, you can spend 10's of thousands of dollars on a system to do the work for you, but really... You think you'll get approved for that budget item? Just think about the discussion. "You want HOW much money to build a list of all our graphics? Don't we have a co-op student who can do that?"
Forget about it. Use these tips to make the daily grind relate to coffee, not to the work that you do at the office.
Using real world examples, and mixing in a bit of fun story-telling, and through creative demonstrations, the overall delivery will leave you with a sense of purpose when it comes to working with the tools and using them to their full potential.
Rocky Mountain STC: Best practices when creating interactive video tutorialsPublishing Smarter
Delivered at the Rocky Mountain Chapter of STC, this session explores how to:
*. Develop a storyboard
*. Review a support topic
*. Create a related video
*. Help users visualize how to perform the task
Easy steps to convert your content to structured (frame maker and xml)Publishing Smarter
Bernard Aschwanden of Publishing Smarter converts documents that contain character, paragraph, and table content marked up with tags, as well as other standard FrameMaker content and creates structured files. This presentation guides you through the general best practices when converting any legacy content. Forget copy and paste. Leverage what you have to create great structured content. Watch, learn, then do it yourself with provided sample files.
DITA PUBLISHING: The True Cost of Taking your DITA Content OnlineWebWorks
The aim of this paper is to compare the true cost of ownership associated with publishing DITA-XML content using the DITA Open Tool Kit and the WebWorks ePublisher Platform.
Content creation, reuse, and publishing to everyone on every device (WritersUA)Publishing Smarter
Timing is everything. It's crucial to quickly create content for multiple audiences, manage reuse effectively, and publish to an audience that needs: the right information, at the right time, in the right format. You can follow up and in a hands-on way you: create content for multiple audiences, in seconds generate dynamic HTML5 content, do so at the click of a button
Text-rich, illustration-heavy, table-filled, overly-hyphenated manuals and docs sit on the shelf and never get read.
Today, we read information in the format we want, on whatever device we want, and with just enough information to support what we need to do.
Learn more about topic-based writing, what it is and what it can do for your approach to documentation.
Any device, any time, any format.
Is your technical content development organization considering a move to structured authoring and/or DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture)? This presentation provides a high-level introduction to what DITA is--and what the benefits of moving to DITA are. DITA is an excellent solution for many--but not all--organizations and projects. This introduction can help you begin to understand why DITA may or may not be a good solution for you.
What’s new in DITA 1.3?
by Yas Etessam, DITA Consultant and Leigh White, DITA Specialist at IXIASOFT
Come and learn about the new proposed DITA 1.3 features. Leigh and Yas will provide an overview of the new architectural features including extensions to the DITA core vocabulary, Online Help vocabularies, scoped keys, branched filtering and enhancements to the Learning and Training, Troubleshooting and Table specializations.
Painless XML Authoring?: How DITA Simplifies XMLScott Abel
Presented at DocTrain East 2007 by Bob Doyle, DITA Users -- This introduction to XML Authoring will acquaint you with over fifty tools aimed at structuring content with DITA. They are not just DITA-compliant authoring tools (editors) for writers. They also include content management systems (CMS), translation management systems (TMS), and dynamic publishing engines that fully support DITA. You will also need to know about tools that convert legacy documents to DITA and help to design stylesheets for DITA deliverables. The best DITA tools for technical communicators implement the DITA standard while hiding all the complexity of the underlying XML (eXtensible Markup Language).
As a tech writer and not a tech, you should be able to forget about XML - except to know that you are using it (DITA is XML) and that it consists of named content elements (or components) with attributes. You need to know enough about the content elements so you can reference (conref) them for reuse. You need to know about their attributes so you can filter on them for conditional processing. And you should appreciate that because components are uniquely identifiable they lend themselves perfectly to automated dynamic assembly using a publishing engine.
We will describe how you can get started with structured writing without knowing XML or installing anything.
The promise of topic-based structured authoring is not simply better documentation. It is the creation of mission-critical information for your organization, written with a deep understanding of your most important audiences, that can be repurposed to multiple delivery channels and localized for multilingual global markets. You are not just writing content, you are preparing the information deliverables that enhance the value of your organization in all its markets.
To do that well, you must understand the latest tools in structured writing that are revolutionizing corporate information systems - today in documentation but tomorrow throughout the enterprise, from external marketing to internal human resources. Whether you are trying to push a new product into a new market or are “onboarding” a new employee, the need for high quality information to educate the customer or train the new salesperson is a challenge for technical communicators. You need to think outside the docs!
The key idea behind Darwin Information Typing Architecture is to create content in small chunks or modules called topics. A topic is the right size when it can stand alone as meaningful information. Topics are then assembled into documents using DITA maps, which are hierarchical lists of pointers or links to topics. The pointers are called “topicrefs” (for topic references).
Think of documents as assembled from single-source component parts. Assembly can be conditional, dependent on properties or metadata “tags” you attach to a topic. For example, the “audience” property might be “beginner” or “advanced.”
At a still finer level of granularity, individual elements of a topic can also be assigned property tags for conditional assembly. More importantly, a topic element can be assigned a unique ID that makes it a content component reusable in other topics.
As you will learn, DITA is a leading technology for “component content management,” which multiplies the value of your work. You need to leverage DITA and structured content to multiply your income.
Introduction to XML and Structured Authoring • Overview of DITA • Topics: The Basic Information Types • Maps: Assembling Topics into Deliverables • Common elements and attributes • Metadata • Examples and exercises
Sometimes, a spontaneous road trip can be a lot of fun, as long as you’re willing to take the good with the bad—getting lost, car trouble, unfriendly (or just plain weird) natives, bad diner food. Usually, though, the most successful trips involve planning, roadmaps, and best of all, guidance from people who’ve already been there.
The journey from traditional, deliverable-centric content creation to DITA-based content creation falls into this second category. In this session, we talk about one small publication group’s experience moving to DITA, from the initial discussions to the successful implementation of a FrameMaker-based, end-to-end publication process. Here are some of the high points of the project; we’ll discuss our decision-making process and some of our technical approaches in detail in the session.
This 2-hour tutorial was presented at the tcworld 2011 conference in Wiesbaden. It shows how you do not have to use the DITA Open Toolkit, Ant scripts, native XML editors and XSL-FO or other transformations to use DITA and create output in a variety of formats. DITA for the rest of us. It is NOT a tutorial about DITA - check out my DITA for Dummies to find that type of info.
The DITA Learning and Training SpecializationIXIASOFT
The DITA Learning and Training Specialization
by Jason Owen, DITA Specialist at IXIASOFT
DITA includes the Learning and Training specialization, which is designed for developing instructional materials. Instructional content can be developed in DITA CMS using this specialization. Technical content can be reused in Learning and Training specialization maps.
Make the move from basic documents to structured documentsPublishing Smarter
Word is great when you have content that is managed by SharePoint, or based on standard and highly-enforced templates, or you have a team of developers to support your team of writers. However, there are too many ways for too many people to cause too many problems. Style overrides, manual formats, or just incorrect use of a template can haunt good content. You spend time and effort to make content great; now put a little bit more time into getting to know a tool that isn’t created for everyone. It’s created for those of us who work in technical communication. It’s time for Adobe FrameMaker.
In this session, you will learn how to
» Evaluate a Word document for content quality
» Rework content for a topic-based model
» Import a Word file to Adobe FrameMaker
» Create a structured workflow
» Migrate legacy content to a structured format
» Move your content to a CCMS
» Publish single sourced content to multiple channels, formats & devices
Make It All About Your Audience (Deliver What They Want, How They Want, When ...Publishing Smarter
It’s all about the audience and we hear that all the time. Know your audience. Articles and discussions abound about the informed consumer, audience metrics, and personas. How do you actually organize and create content geared to multiple audiences?
Learn tips and techniques for planning, writing, and publishing which help you deliver the right information, to the right audience, in the right format, at the right time, and let them make the right decisions.
By using features most people don't even think about you can take a set of tools (for example, FrameMaker, Excel, and PowerPoint) and create a set of materials that let you track some initial metrics, build up reports, and track content in ways that the tool vendors never dreamed off. There are a dozen easy shortcuts (or more) that you can use with any toolset, even free ones like Google Docs to simplify the work you do every day. Want to quickly build a list of every graphic you have across 10 folders? Need to know which of your procedural steps are WAY too long but don't want to manually go hunting? If you often find yourself thinking "it's got to be easier" then this is the session for you. The goal is to get you out the door with at least 4 new tricks to make your job easier.
Those who attend will be better positioned to use their tools to make life (at least in the world of documentation) easier. It's not pretty, it's not all that future friendly, or XML-based, or taking the newest tips in HTML5 to heart. But it's useful. And useable. These are the tips that the experts in the field use to bypass so much of the manual time and effort that steals away your day.
A dozen (or more) tips and tricks to get you humming as you get handed the next daunting task. No one wants to do the manual and labour intensive work that often goes into content analysis, or report building, or file management. Sure, you can spend 10's of thousands of dollars on a system to do the work for you, but really... You think you'll get approved for that budget item? Just think about the discussion. "You want HOW much money to build a list of all our graphics? Don't we have a co-op student who can do that?"
Forget about it. Use these tips to make the daily grind relate to coffee, not to the work that you do at the office.
Using real world examples, and mixing in a bit of fun story-telling, and through creative demonstrations, the overall delivery will leave you with a sense of purpose when it comes to working with the tools and using them to their full potential.
Rocky Mountain STC: Best practices when creating interactive video tutorialsPublishing Smarter
Delivered at the Rocky Mountain Chapter of STC, this session explores how to:
*. Develop a storyboard
*. Review a support topic
*. Create a related video
*. Help users visualize how to perform the task
Easy steps to convert your content to structured (frame maker and xml)Publishing Smarter
Bernard Aschwanden of Publishing Smarter converts documents that contain character, paragraph, and table content marked up with tags, as well as other standard FrameMaker content and creates structured files. This presentation guides you through the general best practices when converting any legacy content. Forget copy and paste. Leverage what you have to create great structured content. Watch, learn, then do it yourself with provided sample files.
Develop key components of a content strategy
Connect the implementation of the strategy with
Improved workflows for creating, managing, and publishing content
Reduction of risk in lack of compliance, inconsistency, missing information
Generation of revenue through effective multi-channel content delivery
Ask (and answer) questions related to tool selection
Hands-on with FrameMaker and DITA to create topics
Publish PDF and HTML5 formats
Implement an Adobe Experience Manager-based solution to ingest, manage, and publish content
Best practices when creating interactive video tutorial: STC Silicon ValleyPublishing Smarter
A picture is worth 1000 words, how many is video worth?
In this session we address how to:
- Develop a storyboard
- Review a support topic
- Create a related video
- Help users visualize how to perform the task
Doing this helps your audience SEE how to resolve issues before they become problems
Write less. Write better. It’s not just about doing away with words, but instead, improving the user experience by presenting the right information, at the right time, in the right format, to the right audience, and allowing them to make the right decision to stop reading content and start doing what they need to do. From search tools to airlines to the use of clear images, tables, or words, the goal of this session is to help you understand the right things to do to spend less time writing, and more time helping your company, your clients, and your readers reduce headaches and increase profits. See samples, join the discussion, and keep your words to a minimum.
Brad Czerniak is a seasoned Drupal Developer at Commercial Progression as well as being a certified library scientist. Brad took this opportunity at DrupalCamp Michigan 2016 to present on the inevitable upgrade advantages for libraries from Drupal 6 and 7 to Drupal 8. Brad's presentation contains many elements of proper discovery process that pertain to all web design and development projects. Sit back and enjoy a tour of web development best practices for your next Drupal 8 project.
You're organised, you love spreadsheets, you're a great cheerleader, you handle a backlog with superhero skills, and now you're faced with managing a Drupal project and everything just feels foreign. It's not you, it's Drupal. The mix of site building, front end development, backend development, and over 20,000 contributed modules makes project management for Drupal exceptionally frustrating for people who've not worked with Drupal before.
This session will cover:
- the basic Drupal development workflow (from a developer's perspective, but without using developer jargon)
writing useful tickets which developers can accomplish
- estimation tips for multi-discipline tickets (design / back end / front end)
- ideal team structures -- and what to do if you can't get them
Updated from DrupalCamp London to include the truisms I've learned about being a first-time project manager.
A selection of three of my utilities that have helped me make sense of I.T. Projects (and Programmes') from a testing perspective!
DocIndex InternetMiner
Automating DITA Publishing: How Gulfstream Publishes Style-rich, Interactive ...Publishing Smarter
If you have watched a TV show or movie in which characters travel the world in a Gulfstream, you have seen a company that elevates aviation to an art form. Sleek lines, luxurious cabins, and an ongoing pursuit of excellence are what we see onscreen.
Behind the scenes, there is DITA. Flight manuals, operators manuals, handbooks, and other content is sourced from one set of DITA materials. Gulfstream then publishes it in a system to PDF that is as functional, professional, and sharp looking as the airplanes they support.
How Gulfstream is doing this, though, is another story. It includes highs and lows of discovery, challenge, and success from open communications between partners. The experience of delivering the best looking and the best functioning documentation in the industry means months of effort to create a push-button approach to convert a DITA map to a finished digital PDF that provides a complete solution to online documentation for the cockpit.
This story is a continuing exploration of the boundaries of automation, compliance, design, and a desire to enhance the usability (and the re-usability) of content from creation to the final delivery. See how it works and what DITA can do to change the way we fly.
Convince Management to Invest in a CCMS (Lessons learned)Publishing Smarter
You are keenly aware of the benefits of a Component Content Management System (CCMS). Next steps; develop a business case to present to management. Answering their questions about an important investment decision means prepping for their key questions. This webinar presents you with questions management may ask, information on researching answers, and guidance on how to make your case. Learn through stories of companies and people who have a CCMS. Hear what they did to convince their management teams to make the long term investments that pay dividends for years to come.
DITA: From “Do I?” to “Done It!”: An Automotive Case Study that can apply to ...Publishing Smarter
This session showcases how documentation for one of the biggest auto manufacturers in the world was to migrated to DITA allowing for publishing of hundreds of manuals in over a dozen languages.
Vehicle documentation (owner’s manuals, user guides, quick reference guides, etc) are as crucial to a car as the brakes, engine, or chassis. Without these a car is not finished, and cannot be shipped and sold. Documentation failure can cost over $100,000 per MINUTE if it results in a line being shut down.
Learn about the journey and discovery of concerns, project scope definition and change, trials and tribulations of getting tools to do what was needed, and the net results. Along the way a component content management system, author tools, review processes, and much more had to be planned, tested, implemented, and supported.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is the accepted industry standard for creating structured content. A Unified Content Strategy is the methodical and purposeful management of your information assets across all divisions of your enterprise, in a way that breaks down silos and makes information easy to find and use.
Brakes, engine, or chassis is mission-critical for a car. Equally important is all the documentation (owner’s manuals, user guides, quick reference guides, etc). Without these, a car is not finished, and cannot be shipped or sold. When supporting one of the biggest auto manufacturers in the world meant migrating to DITA, a solution that supported publishing had to work right. It had to work the first time, and every time.
Learn about the journey and discovery of concerns, project scope definition and change, trials and tribulations of getting tools to do what was needed, and the net results. Along the way, a component content management system, authoring tools, review processes, and much more had to be planned, tested, implemented, and supported.
Takeaways:
• Attendees should be able to clearly see what worked, what didn’t, learn why, and avoid similar pitfalls in their path to structured content.
• Identify how a tight time frame, expectations vs reality, last minute changes, and many late nights culminated into results that showcase the best and worst of tech comm and related tools and processes.
• Discover an automated publishing solution, where one source of content is transformed to multiple channels and uploaded to a CCMS.
Give in to the power of the Dark Side: Tech Comm and Marketing are ConvergingPublishing Smarter
Video: https://youtu.be/AXPG_d-XiZk
We’ve come to think of it like this: content is content. Marketing and technical communications are generated for the same end users at different points in the product adoption life-cycle. The distinction between marketing communications and technical communications is far less pronounced than it once was. Managers sometimes see little difference in skill-sets and often put content creators together in one role or department – and maybe they’re right. During our careers we’re often dealing with a lot of technical content but also creating marketing communications; we’re in a good position to see how very little difference there might be between them. They’re both an always-on dialogue with the user, just at different points in the product adoption life-cycle. We’ll explore the audiences who consume content, ideas related to a seamless content experience, how both training and support factor into this, and talk about implementation ideas.
DITA can help both marketing and technical communications teams connect with customers. In a non-technical way, this slide deck (and the associated presentation) shows how and why it matters to connect with your customer using all the tools at your command.
Information on business models in Canada, and some background on considerations when starting a business in Alberta. Focus is on general ideas, but details about one tech comm business addressed specifically in the session.
When creating technical documentation it's good to know how long it will take. This presentation (delivered to the STC in Calgary Alberta) explores estimating such projects as well as an overview of the estimating process.
Metrics that matter Making the business case that documentation has valuePublishing Smarter
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Metrics that matter: Making the business case that documentation has valuePublishing Smarter
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Metrics that matter: Making the business case that documentation has valuePublishing Smarter
Presented at CMS/DITA North America 2016 to help people tell the story around content as a business asset. We agree there is value in documentation but have been challenged at times to “prove it”. Demo of how to present to groups including sales, support, service, IT, engineering, QA/testing, manufacturing, HR, training, finance, marketing, and every other business unit in your organization. Discussion on how documentation drives sales and generates corporate revenue to managers and executives helping them see how important documentation is to them.
Timing is Everything: Deliver your story to the right people on the right devicePublishing Smarter
Delivering audience specific content that is truly adaptive to the needs of users is a sure way to provide content that helps them make the right choice when it comes to your services and products, every time.
Convert content from unstructured to structured
EDD, conversion table, and a structured template
Using basic examples to get you started, this session:
Convert files with content such as character tags and paragraph tags
Add support for images and tables
Demo converting unstructured to structured using conversion tables
Samples are easy to recreate, but complex and powerful in functionality
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
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• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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2. Housekeeping
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Thanks to Adobe and Joe for setting up this event
In under 10 ideas (was slides, but I don’t want you to
write)
1. Setup of FrameMaker and create a bit of sample content
2. Overview of DITA in a single slide
3. Intro to all core topic types and elements
4. Behind the scenes (attributes)
5. Map
6. Concept
7. Task
8. Reference
9. Publish
10. Update/Publish again!
3. Standard disclaimer
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In the interest of brevity I
will make some blanket
statements to keep it
simple
It’s not all 100% “the
truth”, but I’ll stay close
Purists may complain
And they are wrong!
(except when they are
right)
This can be interactive
Raise a hand when asked
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4. Many options exist, so let’s get onto
the same page (so to speak)
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Setting up the software
17. Content in doc and in Structure View
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18. Inline: View > Element Boundaries (as Tags)
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19. Add content in tags, select/delete related-
links
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20. View > Hide Element Boundaries
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21. Save the file (anywhere, but make a folder)
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22. 2. Purpose of DITA
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According to me:
A formal, XML-based rule set for creating content
Many people in tech comm already work with it
DITA enables enhanced use of source content in a
vendor independent way
At the same time, take advantage of work vendors
have already done!
23. 2: Overview of DITA in a single slide
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Darwin Information Typing Architecture
DITA is about Topic, Maps, Specializations
Some specializations include
concept, reference, task,
glossary (topic based)
bookmap (map based)
domains (software, programming)
DITA 1.2 and 1.3 introduce more
based on the standard core topics
DITA Information Types
Topic–Concept–Task–Reference
24. 3. Intro to core topic types and elements
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Maps and bookmaps
• Used to plan, organize, and
publish
Reltables
• Build relationships between
topics in maps for enhanced
links
Topics
• Types of info in maps generally
a task, concept, or reference
Specializations
• Customize if other options are
exhausted: not using this today
25. 4. Behind the scenes are attributes
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Maps and bookmaps
• Used to plan, organize, and
publish
Reltables
• Build relationships between
info in maps
Topics
• Types of info in maps
generally a task, concept, or
reference
Specializations
• Customize as needed if other
options are exhausted
Attributes
26. 4b. You likely already know about attributes
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Think about HTML
<img src=“file.ext” height=“100” width=“200”>
<a href="http://www.publishingsmarter.com">Think DITA!</a>
In DITA it’s the same idea
<note type=“tip”>Kids: Listen to your teacher; it’s worth
it!</note>
<p audience=“novice”> or <p audience=“expert”>
<p product=“Widget-o-matic”> or <p product=“Foo-blah-
bulator”>
<cmd>Use the <ph platform=“win”>Explorer</ph>
<ph platform=“mac”>Finder</ph> to organize your
files.</cmd>
27. 5. Use maps to organize info
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Maps organize topics; they are a bit like a master
document, book document, TOC, and site map
They use <topicref> in a specific order to organize
info
At publish time the order drives some functions (i.e.
TOC, related parent/child links)
Making a map is easy
At a high level, decide on primary goal
Make that goal clear
Add supporting content
28. 5. Let’s build a New <map> in FrameMaker
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29. File > Save Ditamap As... (m_DITA_and_FrameMaker)
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36. So far, pretty simple, but a bit unimpressive
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37. 6. Concept explains ideas
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If people are wondering why
they should do something,
or the benefits, then a
concept is likely needed
Answers the question what
is or why by detailing
information about
something
Initial information that users
must know before they can
successfully work
Supports the task by
providing an explanation
that is outside the scope of
the task
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38. Key elements when getting started
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Before starting—common
elements I like:
title is often a heading for the
topic, (also used by sections,
examples, figures, tables)
shortdesc is an initial brief
statement in a topic that does
NOT repeat the title, it enhances
it
prolog is metadata or information
about a topic that likely won’t see
it’s way into print, but helps
manage content.
Title samples
39. Ours has those elements, and it’s in the
map!
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40. Elements used in most topic types
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paragraph
table
body related
body
conbody
refbody
taskbody
Most body elements
contain a mix of common
things:
section and example
xref and related-links
list related (ul, ol, and li)
figure and image
paragraph and title
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41. 7. Task is core to what user do
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In almost every situation people turn to
docs because they are doing things
They discover a problem and need to look up
docs
Highly unlikely people read about what to do
when the engine light comes on unless/until
the engine light comes on
No one reads how to Create a Concept in
DITA unless they need to create concepts. In
DITA.
An answer to how that tells the user just
what to do and the order in which to do it
Step-by-step instructions that enables a
user to actually do something
42. Select where to add a task (in the map)
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43. Let’s add it to the map automatically
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44. Title is “Create a <concept>”, and add
shortdesc
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45. Insert a <shortdesc> for the task
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Type this: Introduce your
audience to an idea
before you make them
do things.
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2
46. +You as the author, –<taskbody>, –<related-links>
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2
47. Save and close the “non-map” content
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48. Tasks also contain very specific elements
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task related elements
o prereq (before you begin)
o context (concise reason/benefit)
o steps (detailed below)
o result (net result of the entire task)
o example (specific example of the task)
o postreq (once done, additional “must to” items)
steps related elements
o steps and steps-unordered, containing one or more
step
o cmd (specific instruction, call to action)
o info (additional content to help user perform the step)
o stepresult (specific result of JUST this step, not the task)
o tutorialinfo (content to help when working in a guided way)
o substeps (one level only, just as needed... Too many? Make a
new task!)
49. How about content contributed by SMEs
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Technical communicators
Good with learning tools
Work with many outputs
Familiar with templates
Comfortable in Word and
FrameMaker worlds
Like to learn, dive in,
options
Good candidates for work
in DITA and FrameMaker
SMEs
Quick contributors
Not interested in all
outputs
Simpler interface
Passing familiarity with
Word and styles/tags
Let them focus on their job
Good candidates for an
easy, simplified DITA
workflow
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50. 8. References get to facts and details
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The tech stuff you look
up when you know the
big picture (concept) and
the procedure (task), but
you don’t recall specific
details
Tables, lists, alphabetical
Users should be able to
scan quickly and find
information
Often technical or
background information
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52. This is how easy it SHOULD be for contributors
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53. Let’s enter text under the <concept> title
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Type: An idea, a quick
overview of something we
are documenting.
54. Add a bit more text in the reference
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Type: Clear step-by-step
instructions. Only the call to
action, no conceptual or
reference information.
55. Several pre-defined elements exist
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Toolbars allow specific elements to be added
Icons can be customized
Knowing structure isn’t required
It helps, and in many cases the technical communications
team should know it
But now a SME can create DITA valid content
Even new task/concept/reference content can be
built
56. DITA will NOT allow <section> if in a <title>
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58. Add <title> and <para>
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Title: <reference> element
Para: Technical details,
tables, lookup info.
59. When SMEs are done, content returns to authors
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Toggle back to WYSIWYG (from pencil icon to sheet)
Review the reference
In some cases there may be cleanup
Sure beats copy/paste and manual cleanup though
Save and close the file
60. BTW, tasks and concepts are also
supported!
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61. 9. Publish content
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Native FrameMaker
Support is included
Run it by selecting File >
Publish
Customize it using
A visual interface
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DITA OT
Support is included
DITA > Generate DITA OT
Output
Customize it using
Scripts
Developers
Code
Debugging
70. And to customize the OT output
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Search (thanks Google!)
To customize <codeblock>
to change the font color
and background color
Figure out which attributes
to change.
A full-text search for
"codeblock“ yields a few
results, one of which is
fo/xsl/pr-domain.xsl
The template is found on
line 46: <xsl:template
match="*[contains(@class
,' pr-d/codeblock ')]">.
The template shows us
we need to modify the
"codeblock" attribute set
on line 48: <fo:block
xsl:use-attribute-
sets="codeblock"
id="{@id}">
The "codeblock" attribute
set is also in
fo/cfg/fo/attrs/pr-domain-
attr.xsl on line 41:
<xsl:attribute-set
name="codeblock">
The next step is to
customize this attribute
set
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71. Then we continue to customize it
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Copy
fo/Customization/fo/attrs/
custom.xsl.orig to custom.xsl
Copy the codeblock attribute
set to the new XSL
Find the code for the
background color and font
color so we can specify these
attributes
The resulting code:
<xsl:attribute-
set name="codeblock">
<xsl:attribute name="backgrou
nd-
color">#ff0000</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="color">#ff
ffff</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>
Then tell the plugin to use the
customizations
Copy /fo/Customization/
catalog.xml.orig to
catalog.xml
Open the copied file and edit
the 6th row to uncomment the
code from:
<!--uri
name="cfg:fo/attrs/custom.xsl"
uri="fo/attrs/custom.xsl"/-->
to:
<uri
name="cfg:fo/xsl/custom.xsl"
uri="fo/xsl/custom.xsl">
Save the file
See. It’s easy to write code.
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73. And, by the way File > Save Ditamap As >
...
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74. You can create FrameMaker content from
DITA
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75. If you want, use a simple form to do so
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76. Your takeaway exercises
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With DITA content
Use the map and open
files
Add some more content to
the tasks, ensuring they
are valid (just take baby
steps)
Add a <step> or two
Save the files
Publish and review
Publishing FrameMaker
Experiment with settings
Create different outputs
Test the format options
Open content on different
devices
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77. Summing up the discussion,
and options to continue it.
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Conclusion and contact
78. In closing, we covered:
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1. Setup of FrameMaker and create a bit of sample
content
2. Overview of DITA in a single slide
3. Intro to all core topic types and elements
4. Behind the scenes (attributes)
5. Map
6. Concept
7. Task
8. Reference
9. Publish
10. Update/Publish again!
79. Considering DITA?
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This was under an hour... It isn’t enough to get you
going
But it provided ideas to think about
Questions you should explore
Do you even need DITA?
If so, what about the content you have?
Does it need to be cleaned up, re-written, converted?
How do you get your templates into the DITA world?
What about training, support, and potential content
management?
The next slide is a great way to start that exploration
80. Thank you for your attention
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