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In pursuit of the ultimate techCom information architecture

How do you determine the size of a topic?

Well, this subject has been discussed lately in various blog posts (see for example Tom Johnson blog post about chunking). We chunk content in small pieces called topics. To just chunk ad-hoc as you write will most probably lead to a messy environment; especially if several writers co-operate in a content creation team.

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Structured Content Summit

Location: 
Brussels, Belgium
Date: 
18 May 2011 - 09:30 - 17:30
Event Type: 
Conference

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NLDITA 2011 - call for speakers and call for sponsors

NLDITA 2011, the annual conference on DITA and topic based writing. June 1 in Utrecht, The Netherlands, Europe.

Join: Don Day, Doug Gorman, Jang Graat, Yves Barbion, Andy Lewis, Jonatan Lundin, Mollye Barrett, Kristoff van Tomme, Kit Brown-hoekstra and others who are speaking at NLDITA 2011.

 

We still have slots open for presentations on:

- getting started with DITA

- Metrics and ROI 

- simplifying DITA

- DITA for authors

- use cases, best practices, implementation

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Next Major Release of Vasont Content Management System

Vasont Systems announced the release of the next major version of their XML content management system (CMS), Vasont® ST, that enables users to store multilingual content once for maximum reuse and delivery to multiple channels. This release strengthens the CMS's modular content management and project management solutions for DITA and non-DITA applications...Vasont ST supports the latest release of the DITA standard, DITA 1.2,
as well as other standard and custom DTDs.

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Codex

Codex is a new type of editor that enables anyone to author XML-based DITA content easily and affordably. Codex combines the simplicity of a rich text editor with the power of the DITA file format. Subject-matter experts and non-technical authors can use Codex to create and edit basic DITA topics and maps that can then be used directly in sophisticated XML publishing processes, eliminating the need for copying and pasting or file conversions.

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