Full-on DITA Strategies Beyond Technical Publications

Thursday, October 1 — 3:00pm-3:45pm

Rob Hanna, ECMs
President & Chief Information Architect
Precision Content Authoring Solutions

DITA has the potential to add tremendous utility to high-value content for the enterprise. Before embarking on a DITA transformation project, organizations must first take a step back to examine their requirements for utility, maintainability, and usability of their content. This means not putting the technology cart before the horse. This session will take a brief look back at exploratory work conducted by the Business Documents Subcommittee of the DITA TC and how tools and methods have evolved since. We will examine the value of useful semantic markup and models for the enterprise and talk about several DITA projects involving non-traditional users and audiences. 

About

Rob is the president of Precision Content Authoring Solutions Inc. and an expert in structured authoring and content management. He holds a designation from AIIM.org as a certified Enterprise Content Management Specialist (ECMs) and is a named Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). Rob is a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee and an executive member of the First Canadian Chapter of AIIM in Toronto. Rob’s company employs a team of information architects and skilled technical communicators that help organizations make their information easier to use. For more information, please see http://www.linkedin.com/in/singlesourceror.