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DITA Metrics: Similarities and Savings for Conrefs and Translation

This paper shows an interesting similarity between the reuse mechanism of the DITA content reference feature and a translation memory system (TMS). We then discuss this similarity in terms of cost and show that the savings that can be achieved using DITA’s content reuse feature are similar to the savings possible using a TMS.

Many thanks again to Julio Vazquez for his excellent review and feedback on this paper. Thanks Julio!


>Mark Lewis

 

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Better Contracts and Proposals with DITA

Most organizations that regularly produce contracts or proposals should consider using XML, and in particular the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). Why? These documents use the same or similar sections over and over again, with enough variations — such as customer names and select clauses — to become the basis of expensive horror stories when mistakes are made as a result of search-and-replace or copy-and-paste errors. New technologies based on DITA can significantly reduce the risk of mistakes, while saving time and stress for staff as well.

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Webinar: DITA Specialization: Tools for Visual Support

On June 10, 2010, instinctools GmbH organized a webinar on the topic “DITA Specialization: Tools for Visual Support”. 

In this webinar, Alexej Spas talked about how the otherwise complicated activity of DITA specialization can be handled comfortably in a visual way. The benefits of having infrastructure support for DITA specialization in terms of model validation, import, export and integration with version control and documentation environment were also talked about. The webinar was structured as follows:

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The DITA 1.2 Keyref Mechanism: How to Implement the Keyref Mechanism to Increase Content Reuse

Location: 
http://www.comtech-serv.com/webinar-dita1.2.shtml
Date: 
28 Jul 2010 - 12:00 - 29 Jul 2010 - 01:30
Event Type: 
Webinar

Methods of Error Handling and Debugging DITA Open Toolkit Processing

Location: 
http://www.suite-sol.com/pages/services/services_training_dita_ot_training_webinar_series.html
Date: 
28 Jul 2010 - 14:00 - 15:00
Event Type: 
Webinar
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