Download or read book Introduction to DITA written by Jennifer Linton and published by . This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Introduction to DITA written by JoAnn T. Hackos and published by Comtech Services. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduction to DITA is designed to provide... a task-oriented approach to learning the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. The Arbortext edition is designed to introduce you to PTC's Arbortext Editor. You learn to use DITA at the same you learn to apply the Arbortext Editor to authoring, conditional processing and publishing."

Download or read book Introduction to DITA written by JoAnn T. Hackos and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book DITA Best Practices written by Laura Bellamy and published by IBM Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &>The Start-to-Finish, Best-Practice Guide to Implementing and Using DITA Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is today's most powerful toolbox for constructing information. By implementing DITA, organizations can gain more value from their technical documentation than ever before. Now, three DITA pioneers offer the first complete roadmap for successful DITA adoption, implementation, and usage. Drawing on years of experience helping large organizations adopt DITA, the authors answer crucial questions the "official" DITA documents ignore, including: Where do you start? What should you know up front? What are the pitfalls in implementing DITA? How can you avoid those pitfalls? The authors begin with topic-based writing, presenting proven best practices for developing effective topics and short descriptions. Next, they address content architecture, including how best to set up and implement DITA maps, linking strategies, metadata, conditional processing, and content reuse. Finally, they offer "in the trenches" solutions for ensuring quality implementations, including guidance on content conversion. Coverage includes: Knowing how and when to use each DITA element-and when not to Writing "minimalist," task-oriented information that quickly meets users' needs Creating effective task, concept, and reference topics for any product, technology, or service Writing effective short descriptions that work well in all contexts Structuring DITA maps to bind topics together and provide superior navigation Using links to create information webs that improve retrievability and navigation Gaining benefits from metadata without getting lost in complexity Using conditional processing to eliminate redundancy and rework Systematically promoting reuse to improve quality and reduce costs Planning, resourcing, and executing effective content conversion Improving quality by editing DITA content and XML markup If you're a writer, editor, information architect, manager, or consultant who evaluates, deploys, or uses DITA, this book will guide you all the way to success. Also see the other books in this IBM Press series: Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and Editors The IBM Style Guide: Conventions for Writers and Editors

Download or read book Dita Darwin Information Typing Architecture written by Kevin Roebuck and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Knowledge Solution. Stop Searching, Stand Out and Pay Off. The #1 ALL ENCOMPASSING Guide to DITA. An Important Message for ANYONE who wants to learn about DITA Quickly and Easily... ""Here's Your Chance To Skip The Struggle and Master DITA, With the Least Amount of Effort, In 2 Days Or Less..."" The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an OASIS standard XML data model for authoring and publishing. Many third party tools support authoring, including Adobe FrameMaker, XMetaL, Arbortext, Quark XML Author, Oxygen XML Editor, easyDITA, and SDL Xopus. With the DITA Open Toolkit publishing system, DITA features single source publishing, inheritance, topic-based authoring, and content reuse. Get the edge, learn EVERYTHING you need to know about DITA, and ace any discussion, proposal and implementation with the ultimate book - guaranteed to give you the education that you need, faster than you ever dreamed possible! The information in this book can show you how to be an expert in the field of DITA. Are you looking to learn more about DITA? You're about to discover the most spectacular gold mine of DITA materials ever created, this book is a unique collection to help you become a master of DITA. This book is your ultimate resource for DITA. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about DITA right away. A quick look inside: Darwin Information Typing Architecture, Technical communication tools, Academic journal, Advanced Distributed Learning, AgcXML, Announcement (computing), Application programming interface, AS4, Audience analysis, Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee, Basic English, CALS (DOD), CALS Raster file format, CALS Table Model, John M. Carroll (information scientist), Changelog, Cheat sheet, Clymer repair manual, Conditional text, Configuration management, Content management, Content re-appropriation, Controlled vocabulary, Copy editing, Data custodian, Data steward, Datasheet, Distinguo, Distributed Oceanographic Data Systems, DITA Open Toolkit, DocBook, Doctest, Document modelling, Documentation, EbXML, EbXML Messaging Services, Edge case, Edublog, Electrical system design, Electronic performance support systems, Encoded Archival Description, List of energy abbreviations, English writing style, Extended Messaging Service, Extensible Forms Description Language, Fact sheet, FAQ, FinTS, Flowchart, Form and document creation, Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, General Formal Ontology, GMX, GMX-V, Gramlee, Green paper, JoAnn Hackos, Hardware description language, Haynes Manual, Help (command), Help authoring tool, History of personal learning environments, History of virtual learning environments, Robert E. Horn, How-to, HOWTO article, HTML, IMRAD, IMS Global, IMS VDEX, Index (computer science), Information architecture, Information mapping, Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, Instruction creep, Interaction design, Internal documentation, Internationalization and localization, Internationalization Tag Set, Internet tutorial, ISO 15926, ISO-TimeML, Knowledge base, Knowledge management software, Language-independent specification, Learning object metadata, Legal case management, Linux Network Administrators' Guide, List of public relations journals, List of style guides, List of Unified Modeling Language tools, Man page, Martin Documentation, Match report, Metadata, METS, Microlearning, Microsoft Compiled HTML Help, Minimalism (technical communication)...and Much, Much More! This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of DITA. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of DITA with the objectivity of experienced professionals - Grab your copy now, while you still can.

Download or read book Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA written by Carlos Evia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA documents the evolution of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) – a widely used open standard for structuring technical content. DITA has grown in popularity and features since its origins as an internal grammar for structuring technical documentation at IBM. This book introduces Lightweight DITA (LwDITA, which should be read as "Lightweight DITA") as a proposed version of the DITA standard that reduces its dependence on complex Extensible Markup Language (XML) structures and simplifies its authoring experience. This volume aims to reconcile discrepancies and similarities in methods for authoring content in industry and academia and does so by reporting on DITA’s evolution through the lens of computational thinking, which has been connected in scholarship and media to initiatives for learning to code and programming. Evia’s core argument is that if technical communicators are trained with principles of rhetorical problem solving and computational thinking, they can create structured content in lightweight workflows with XML, HTML5, and Markdown designed to reduce the learning curve associated with DITA and similar authoring methodologies. At the same time, this book has the goal of making concepts of structured authoring and intelligent content easier to learn and teach in humanities-based writing and communication programs. This book is intended for practitioners and students interested in structured authoring or the DITA standard.

Download or read book DITA the Topic Based XML Standard written by Sissi Closs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a concise, real-world description of DITA principles. Explanations are provided on the basis of simple, applicable examples. The book will be an excellent introduction for DITA novices and is ideal as a first orientation for optimizing your information environment.

Download or read book Technical Writing One Hundred One written by Alan S. Pringle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the skills you need as a technical writer to create both printed and online content. This valuable reference describes the entire development process-planning, writing, visual design, editing, indexing, and production. You also get tips on how to write information that is more easily translated into other languages. You'll learn about the importance of following templates and about how structured authoring environments based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) streamline the content development process. This updated third edition features new information on the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard for structured authoring, and it explains the impact of Web 2.0 technologies-blogs, wikis, and forums-on technical communication.

Download or read book TIMAF Information Management Best Practices Volume 1 written by Bob Boiko and published by Hartman Communicatie. This book was released on 2010 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Practical Dita written by Julio Vazquez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a practical approach to creating information using the Darwinian Information Typing Architecture (DITA). It covers everything from planning the project to writing the topics that comprise an information set.

Download or read book DITA Best Practices Video Enhanced Edition written by Laura Bellamy and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the video enhanced eBook version of the print title. Watch video demonstrations to see how to implement some of the advanced features of DITA discussed in this book. With these videos you’ll learn to code short descriptions, links, conditional processing, and content references. In addition, you will find instructions in the last few pages of your eBook that direct you to the download site for the set of DITA sample files used in examples throughout the book. The Start-to-Finish, Best-Practice Guide to Implementing and Using DITA Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is today’s most powerful toolbox for constructing information. By implementing DITA, organizations can gain more value from their technical documentation than ever before. Now, three DITA pioneers offer the first complete roadmap for successful DITA adoption, implementation, and usage. Drawing on years of experience helping large organizations adopt DITA, the authors answer crucial questions the “official” DITA documents ignore, including: Where do you start? What should you know up front? What are the pitfalls in implementing DITA? How can you avoid those pitfalls? The authors begin with topic-based writing, presenting proven best practices for developing effective topics and short descriptions. Next, they address content architecture, including how best to set up and implement DITA maps, linking strategies, metadata, conditional processing, and content reuse. Finally, they offer “in the trenches” solutions for ensuring quality implementations, including guidance on content conversion. Coverage includes: Knowing how and when to use each DITA element–and when not to Writing “minimalist,” task-oriented information that quickly meets users’ needs Creating effective task, concept, and reference topics for any product, technology, or service Writing effective short descriptions that work well in all contexts Structuring DITA maps to bind topics together and provide superior navigation Using links to create information webs that improve retrievability and navigation Gaining benefits from metadata without getting lost in complexity Using conditional processing to eliminate redundancy and rework Systematically promoting reuse to improve quality and reduce costs Planning, resourcing, and executing effective content conversion Improving quality by editing DITA content and XML markup If you’re a writer, editor, information architect, manager, or consultant who evaluates, deploys, or uses DITA, this book will guide you all the way to success. Important note: The audio and video content included with this enhanced eBook can be viewed only using iBooks on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Due to the incredibly rich media included in your enhanced eBook, you may experience longer than usual download times. Please be patient while your product is delivered. Also see the other books in this IBM Press series: Developing Quality Technical Information: A Handbook for Writers and Editors The IBM Style Guide: Conventions for Writers and Editors

Download or read book The Insider s Guide to Technical Writing written by Krista Van Laan and published by XML Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every complex product needs to be explained to its users, and technical writers, also known as technical communicators, are the ones who do that job. A growing field, technical writing requires multiple skills, including an understanding of technology, writing ability, and great people skills. Whether you're thinking of becoming a technical writer, just starting out, or you've been working for a while and feel the need to take your skills to the next level, The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing can help you be a successful technical writer and build a satisfying career. Inside the Book Is This Job for Me? What does it take to be a technical writer? Building the Foundation: What skills and tools do you need to get started? The Best Laid Plans: How do you create a schedule that won’t make you go crazy? How do you manage different development processes, including Agile methodologies? On the Job: What does it take to walk into a job and be productive right away? The Tech Writer Toolkit: How do you create style guides, indexes, templates and layouts? How do you manage localization and translation and all the other non-writing parts of the job? I Love My Job: How do you handle the ups and downs of being a technical writer? Appendixes: References to websites, books, and other resources to keep you learning. Index

Download or read book The Architecture of Information written by Martyn Dade-Robertson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, psychological and architectural knowledge are united to develop an understanding of the relationship between information and its representation. Despite its potential to break the mould, digital information has relied on metaphors from a pre-digital era. In particular, architectural ideas have pervaded discussions of digital information, from the urbanization of cyberspace in science fiction, through to the adoption of spatial visualizations in the design of graphical user interfaces. This book tackles: the historical importance of physical places to the organization and expression of knowledge the limitations of using the physical organization of objects as the basis for systems of categorization and taxonomy the emergence of digital technologies and the twentieth century new conceptual understandings of knowledge and its organization the concept of disconnecting storage of information objects from their presentation and retrieval ideas surrounding ‘semantic space’ the realities of the types of user interface which now dominate modern computing.

Download or read book Structured Writing written by Mark Baker and published by XML Press. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured writing has never been more important or more confusing. We keep trying to do more and more with content, but we give ourselves less and less time to do it. Structured content can help keep your rhetoric on track and your processes efficient. But how does it do that and what is the relationship between rhetoric and process? It is easy to get lost in sea of acronyms and buzz words: semantics, XML, metadata, DITA, structure, DocBook, hypertext, Markdown, topics, XSLT, reuse, LaTeX, silos, HTML. Structured Writing cuts through the noise, explaining what structured writing is (you have been doing it all along) and how you can use different structures to achieve different purposes. It focuses on how you can partition and manage the complexity of the content creation process using structured writing techniques to ensure that everything is handled by the person or process with the skills, time, and resources to handle it effectively. Most importantly, this book shows you how the right structured writing techniques can improve the quality of your content and, at the same time, make your content processes more efficient without sacrificing quality for efficiency or vice versa. There are so many options available in the structured writing space today. This book will show you where each of them fits and help you choose the approach that is optimal for your content.

Download or read book Cognitive Architecture written by Ann Sussman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and planners better understand their clients as the sophisticated mammals they are, arriving in the world with built-in responses to the environment. Discussing key biometric tools to help designers ‘see’ subliminal human behaviors and suggesting new ways to analyze designs before they are built, this new edition brings readers up-to-date on scientific tools relevant for assessing architecture and the human experience of the built environment. The new edition includes: Over 100 full color photographs and drawings to illustrate key concepts. A new chapter on using biometrics to understand the human experience of place. A conclusion describing how the book’s propositions reframe the history of modern architecture. A compelling read for students, professionals, and the general public, Cognitive Architecture takes an inside-out approach to design, arguing that the more we understand human behavior, the better we can design and plan for it.

Download or read book XML in Technical Communication written by Charles Cowan and published by Institute of Scientific and Technical Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years Extensible Markup Language (XML) has had a major impact on software development and data interchange and has begun to have a similar effect in technical communication. This resource fills an important gap in the market by providing a broad introduction to XML and its role in technical communication.

Download or read book Information Development written by JoAnn T. Hackos and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-01-29 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary new resource that brings documentation product management ideas up to date The 1994 bestselling classic Managing Your Documentation Projects set the industry standard for technical documentation. However, since then, much has changed in the world of information development. With this new title, JoAnn Hackos looks beyond the structured project of the 1980s and 1990s. Instead, she focuses on the rapidly changing projects of the 21st century and addresses how to introduce agile information development without neglecting the central focus of planning information design and development around the needs of information users. As an information-development manager, you are expected to reduce costs and project time, do more work with fewer resources and less money, and increase the value of the information you deliver. Recognizing this, Hackos has carefully designed this book to help you do precisely that. She helps you make strategic decisions about information development and directs the discussion of project management toward smarter decision-making. An update of the original 1994 Information Process Maturity Model (IPMM) presents you with a method by which you can compare the state of your organization to others, evaluate your current status, and then consider what is necessary in order to move to the next level. Information Development offers a completely new look at best practices for all phases of the document development lifecycle, including: Managing a corporate information portfolio Evaluating process maturity Partnering with customers and developing user scenarios Developing team effectiveness and collaboration Planning and monitoring information projects Managing translation and production Evaluating project performance Managing for quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness The companion Web site includes electronic versions of the templates and checklists featured in the book. Wiley Technology Publishing Timely. Practical. Reliable. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/