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Michael Priestley

MP: STC 2007 Day 4

Blog entry: Submitted by Michael Priestley on Thu, 2007-05-17 23:28. Last updated on Thu, 2007-05-17 23:41.

The conference finished off with a number of DITA case studies, from BusinessObjects, RIM, and PTC.

I highly recommend Larissa Sliwinsky's "Real-World DITA" case study on usage at Business Objects (ppt available from the STC session materials site). The business driver was customer complaints about lack of information, out-of-date information: as someone with a background in user assistance, it always makes me feel warm and fuzzy when someone chooses DITA to improve their customer experience/information quality, instead of focusing solely on its reuse benefits.

Anyone used In.vision Xpress Author / DITA Studio?

Forum topic: Submitted by talyn on Thu, 2007-05-17 18:06. Last updated on Thu, 2007-05-17 18:06.

Hi all,

I'm investigating a switch to DITA for my company, and so far the tool that looks best to me is In.vision's Xpress Author and DITA Toolkit. Has anyone worked with this tool? If so, what do you think of it?

MP: STC 2007 Day 3

Blog entry: Submitted by Michael Priestley on Thu, 2007-05-17 14:31. Last updated on Thu, 2007-05-17 15:09.

Day 3 kicked off with the DITA TC meeting, phoning in from my hotel room - we completed our disposition of features for 1.2 versus 1.3, and approved the creation of a new Semiconductor subcommittee, led by Bob Beims of Freescale. I know this has been in the makings for quite some time, kudos to Bob for pulling it together.