Adelheid Certik, of Mizuho OSI, recently made the transition from unstructured authoring to structured authoring. Here to talk about the content conversion.
Prioritize the content to convert. Some immediate, some ongoing, some never. For example of the latter, older consent or content not a candidate for reuse. Also wanted to identify a subset of content for a pilot, one complex and relevant enough to develop a good content model.
Do you want to outsource or do work in-house. This is a money vs. time equation.
In pre-conversion, edit your content to align with your information model. Create styles to cover elements/attributes in your information model. Apply styles consistently and then break content into topics or chapters.
For the actual conversion process, conversion tables are available as a plug-in in tools such as Oxygen and FrameMaker. These assign tags to styles. When going from XML to DITA, adjust the XML structure to align with the information model. If you have the in-house knowledge, can use XSLT.
After conversion, upload to CCMS, then create maps, add links to images, add conrefs, and create keys, keyrefs, and conkeyrefs.
Do not skimp on editing your content to match your information model or identifying main areas of reuse.
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