Held in the high tech sector in Burlington, Massachusetts, the theme of the 10th Annual Documentation & Training East Conference was Producing Quality Content. The event included a special focus on both software documentation project best practices and translation and localization issues.
Our next event is Documentation and Training West, “Moving from Unstructured to Structured Content”, March 17-20, 2009 in Palm Springs, CA. Don’t miss it!
Eliot Kimber Says DITA Makes It Possible To Create Sustainable XML for Publishing Applications
Publishing guru Eliot Kimber says XML applications for publishers have largely failed to realize the full potential inherent in the technology. “While larger publishers could make the investment necessary to realize significant return on the use of XML technology, smaller enterprises simply could not, for a number of reasons, but fundamentally because the startup costs and ongoing costs of ownership were simply too high,” says Kimber. “But, thanks to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) those obstacles are no longer as challenging.”
According to Kimber, a featured speaker at Documentation and Training East 2008, “DITA fundamentally changes the equation, bringing several unique features that, together, serve to lower both the startup cost and ongoing costs, making the use of XML for publishers much more affordable than it ever has before.” At the same time, Kimber notes, advances in supporting technologies important to publishers—things like improved support for XML in Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office, powerful new XML search and retrieval systems such as Mark Logic, and a new generation of lower-cost XML editors—serve to make the use of XML for publishing applications more attractive than it ever has been before.
Don’t miss Kimber’s presentation, Sustainable XML for Publishing Applications: DITA Makes It Possible, Friday morning, October 31, 2008 at DocTrain East.
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