Metadata and Taxonomy Workshop for DITA Authoring Teams

Upcoming Dates This class is scheduled on demand but, if you want to know more, you can view a preview of the material in our public presentation about these concepts. We also offer publicly available, virtual, instructor-led, classes focused on…

• Key Concepts: content management, dita, library science, metadata madness, productivity, taxonomy and classification, usability and user experience
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Transformative Approach to Component Content Management

Your information content is a critical business asset. It is a key differentiator of you, your organization, and what you have to offer customers. For some, it is the first introduction you have to potential new customers and for the…

• Key Concepts: content management, dita, library science, metadata madness, productivity, taxonomy and classification, usability and user experience
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Common Questions: Arbortext Editor

This week’s topic: Arbortext Editor Something that a lot of people don't realize, but that Arbortext customers cherish, is that every part of the Arbortext Editor UIr—everything you can do in the Editor—is reachable through the extensive, well-documented, API. After the…

• Key Concepts: arbortext editor, basics, dita
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Common Questions: Data Merge

This week’s topic: Data Merge Data Merge is an interesting way to jump start your documents.  It's also a great way to keep your content accurate and up-to-date while reducing the amount of work that you need to do to…

• Key Concepts: basics, data merge, techcomm tools
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

What’s all the DITA buzz about?

You’re in a staff meeting and the documentation manager is giving a report of the advances his team has achieved using a new technology. He mentions that the team has gone through a lot of effort and pain to implement…

• Key Concepts: content management, dita, library science, metadata madness, productivity, taxonomy and classification, usability and user experience
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Podcast Posted: Interview with Bob Thomas, Tagsmiths

This month's interview on the PubWright podcast is Bob Thomas, from Tagsmiths. Bob started in SGML/XML in the mid-to-early 90s at Lucent. He transformed from a technical writer to data modeler, DTD writer, legacy data conversion specialist, and stylesheet developer….

• Key Concepts: community, dita, xpath xslt xsl-fo
• Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

DITA is Hard

There's a trope that says, if you want to do good content delivery, you have to advocate for methodology, not tools. (This is often said in despair by someone dealing with a team of writers determined to find a way…

• Key Concepts: best practices, dita, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing
• Filed under: Blog
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Common Questions: File Format Support

This week's topic: File Formats Questions about file formats range from what any particular product supports (editing, illustration, publishing, cms) to what formats can be converted by the Arbortext tools. Today, we're talking about both of these and where each…

• Key Concepts: arbortext content manager (windchill), arbortext editor, basics, illustrations and graphics, techcomm tools
• Filed under: Blog, Common Questions
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive