Archive - 2008

Bob Doyle

From Free to Three ($100K)

EContent Magazine, Column April 2008. 

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) XML structured publishing solutions, like content management systems in general, run the gamut in cost from free to millions of dollars for some of the largest implementations in big corporations, such as Adobe, Autodesk, BMC, EMC, IBM, Nokia, Salesforce.com, and Sybase.

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Feedable, portable, mashable, DITAble

Making Web 2.0 content portable and mashable using the DITA standards for content and collections.

Presented by Michael Priestley at Content Convergence and Integration 2008.

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draize

Just getting started

We have worked with a consult to select a group of CMS vendors, met with the vendors, and finally selected a CMS supplier. We decided on dita early on, but now the hard part begins.

We currently use unstructured Frame and output our technical documents to PDF. We're moving from frame to xmetal to get a clean break to the past. One of the questions that I have is: What kind of training do we need and in what order?

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Building htmlhelp

Hello,

I think I got my reply to my earlier post concerning how to produce output using oxygen 9.1 I tried the startcmd at DITAOT prompt and then used the ant -f build_demo.xml; what has now put me with a question is; I am not getting an htmlhelp output which previously I did when I tried it from the example. I had a ditamap named myditamap with 2 topics and a concept xml file. Using the xmetal I can get the chm output for my project; but using ant -f build_demo.xml I am unable and infact when I select the pdf there is an error opening the pdf file.

 

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CIDM's Publishing Practices and Information Management Techniques Survey

The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) announces the launch of its newest survey: Publishing Practices and Information Management Techniques.

The survey should take only 5-10 minutes of your time.

Begin by clicking this link: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB227KFD6398Q

Please take the time today to complete the survey, as it will close on April 11, 2008.

We will make the results available on the CIDM website: http://www.infomanagementcenter.com

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