Gilbane San Francisco 2008 Conference
June 18-20, 2008, San Francisco, CA
DITA is rapidly becoming well established in Technical Documentation with many groups adopting it or considering the adoption of DITA. A large number of organizations now see the unstructured content that exists in narrative business documents as standing in the way of processes that could be automated end-to-end. The lack of structure leads to inconsistency, poor readability, and the inability to reuse content. These same documents contain a significant amount of the organizations' intellectual property, which because of the inherent lack of structure, remains hidden from business intelligence and other software tools. For the most part these organizations have created custom DTDs or schemas, but now they are beginning to focus on DITA as a possibility.
DITA is an ideal candidate to unify enterprise business content, since DITA is an open standard designed to be specialized for the needs of individual departments. What's more, an OASIS subcommittee has been established to make recommendations that optimize DITAs value for Enterprise Business Documents.
This session will focus on:
- The benefits of structure content
- The basic structure of narrative business documents
- The developing DITA standard
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