Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Fighting Words: DITA and the Battle for Better Content

 Jake Campbell, of Scriptorium, assumed a basic (basic) knowledge of DITA to start his presentation, described a problem of a lot of content spread across several poor-quality PDFs with no bookmarks, no searchable text, and file size issues. 

Initial solution extracted data into spreadsheets. A newer approach was a modern PDF, but still issues. 

Core issues were irrelevant information, information accessibility, and resource usability. 

Solution was to collect into one PDF with navigation and clickable links. 

Used DITA-OT 3.6.1, oXygen, Antenna House Formatter, and Bitbucket. 

Process included selecting conversion target, build a content model, decide on a workflow, and then do the writing. 

Created a template with section elements, most with titles. Added Details and Tags sections. An otherprops added to the root element allows for filtering.

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Shaping the Future of Knowledge Management: Collaborative Innovation in Intelligent Content, Taxonomies, and AI

 Alvin Reyes, of RWS, Harald Statlbauer, of NINEFEB, Mark Gross, of Data Conversion Laboratory, and Lance Cummings, of UNC Wilmington, were ...