Time |
Authoring |
Technical Solutions |
Management |
Tools |
7:00-8:00 |
Breakfast and Morning Registration |
8:00-8:30 |
Welcome
JoAnn Hackos, Director
The Center for Information-Development Management, Inc. |
8:30-9:30 |
Keynote—Effectively Communicate Content Through Comics
Scott McCloud
|
9:30-10:00 |
Break |
10:00-10:40 |
Moving from Books to Topics: The challenges and benefits
Tim Allen
Oberon Technologies |
Code Reviews: How to use markup reviews to improve your DITA documentation!
Jenifer Schlotfeldt
IBM Corporation
Michelle Carey
IBM Corporation |
Building a Culture of Collaboration for Cross-Enterprise Business Ventures
Patricia Burrows
EMC Corporation
Helen Cavender
Cisco Systems, Inc. |
Are You Ready for the New Information Revolution? New Frontiers for Multilingual Web Analytics, SEO and Community Sentiment Analysis
Andrew Bredenkamp
acrolinx
|
10:45-11:25 |
Documentation As Training
Dawn Stevens
Comtech Services, Inc. |
DITA Compliant 3D Content: Get it, use it, publish it!
Dan Armour
Joy Mining Machinery
Jack Miller
Joy Mining Machinery |
How DITA Transformed Technical Content at Nikon Precision
Debra West-Maciaszek
Nikon Precision |
Flexible DITA: Using DITA specializations with XMetaL
Su-Laine Yeo
JustSystems XMetaL |
11:30-12:10 |
Training Content Before Moving to DITA 1.2: A domain specialization for review and activity topics
Clara Allan
Research In Motion |
Beyond Google Translate: The future for machine translation
Uwe Muegge
CSOFT International Ltd. |
Creating a Socialgraphic Profile of Information Users
Alexia Idoura
Symantec Corporation |
Schematrons: When DTD validation isn’t enough
Pushpinder Toor
PTC |
12:15-1:45 |
Lunch |
1:50-2:30 |
Delivering Multi-Modal Training: A review of three projects
Patrick Quinlan
Citrix Systems, Inc. |
Intel Product Information XML Solution
Steve Ballard
Intel Corporation
Eric Davies
Intel Corporation |
Release Management
—A Problem We Can Solve
JoAnn Hackos
Comtech Services, Inc.
Bill Gearhart
Comtech Services, Inc. |
Doing DITA in the Open Source CMS Drupal
Kristof Van Tomme
Pronovix |
2:35-3:15 |
SAP Adopts DITA Learning and Training: First look
Mark Myers
SAP
Jennifer Gemmell
SAP |
Managing Linking in Reusable Content with Soft Linking
Mark Baker
Wind River Systems |
DITA and the New Future of
Customer Experience
Howard Schwartz
SDL Structured Content Technologies
Chip Gettinger
SDL Structured Content Technologies |
Making DITA Work Across
The Enterprise
Doug Gorman
Simply XML
|
3:20-3:50 |
Break |
3:55-4:35 |
Question Everything! First Steps Toward Building Your Knowledge Base
Mirhonda Studevant
Ceridian Corporation |
It's Not 'Just' Documentation Any More!
Marcos Campos
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Derek Saldana
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Bob Beims
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. |
Making the Most of Your CMS: Using workflow to move your content in the right direction at the right time
Karen Hollomon
Lexmark International
Suzanne Mescan
Vasont Systems |
An Introduction to On-
Demand Web-Based
Publishing
Russell Ward
Spirent Communications
|
4:40-5:20 |
psssst! The Secret of
Great DITA is Really About STM and LTM
George Hayden
ChatHat LLC |
XAML, MathML, and DITA:
Publishing mathematical
notation in WPF
John Wilcock
Minitab Inc.
Meegan Tomlins
Minitab Inc. |
Grabbing the Spotlight: How
being on the impact chain
strengthened our business case
and ROI realized
Emily Mydlowski
Hach Company
Jenny Kotch
Hach Company
|
What Can Web-Docbase
Bring to You?
Alex Wang
Sursen Corporation |
5:25-7:30 |
Exhibitor Reception |
Time |
Authoring |
Technical Solutions |
Management |
Tools |
7:30-8:30 |
Breakfast and Morning Announcements |
8:30-9:10 |
The Most Difficult Sentence That You Will Ever Write: Creating effective short descriptions
Laura Bellamy
VMware, Inc.
Michelle Carey
IBM Corporation |
Keys and Keyrefs: How are
they being used?
Kristen James Eberlein
SDL Structured Content Technologies
|
Farmer DITA’s Almanac
(Spring Edition): Counting
your chickens
Buddy Lee
Jack Henry & Associates
Emily Saltsgaver
Jack Henry & Associates |
Reality Check: What to
expect from automated conversion to DITA
Don Bridges
Data Conversion Laboratory
|
9:15-9:55 |
Tying it Together: Making the leap from DITA implementation to DITA integration
Mark Novembrino
Cisco Systems, Inc. |
What We Build When We Transform DITA Content: Building help systems and advanced PDF layouts using the DITA Open Toolkit
Jason Liu
Research In Motion
Greg Young
Research In Motion
|
Defining the Interfaces for the New Technical Publishing
Systems
Tom Goering
FICO |
DITA Specialization: Tools for visual support
Gunthilde Sohn
instinctools GmbH
Alexej Spas
instinctools GmbH
|
10:00-10:30 |
Break |
10:35-11:15 |
Migrating to DITA:
Minimalize, downsize and optimize first!
Marie-Louise Flacke
CI3M
Nolwenn Kerzreho
Thales Services SAS |
Using Online Help to Boost Content Collaboration
Mathew Varghese
Citrix Systems, Inc. |
American Red Cross
Documentum CMS
Experiences
Lori Moore
American Red Cross
Bill Barton
American Red Cross |
Agile Changes Everything: How we changed our process, tools, and team to automate for Agile
Mary Connor
Advanced Solutions International, Inc.
Nicoletta Bleiel
ComponentOne |
11:20-12:00 |
Real World Strategies for Planned Reuse
Jack Phillips
Minitab Inc.
Jen Bucher
Minitab Inc. |
Taking DITA to Infinity and Beyond: DITA processing and cloud computing
Frank Shipley
Componize Software |
Triumphs and Trials of a
Complex Project
Jennifer Skiendzielewski
InfoPrint Solutions, a Ricoh company |
Putting Your Topics to
Work: Designing a workflow system around topics
Yas Etessam
OPS Online
Sarah Lesway-Ball
Juniper Networks |
12:00-1:30 |
Lunch |
1:30-2:10 |
Managing Content Consistency and Quality in a Distributed Collaborative Environment
Kent Taylor
acrolinx |
The Javascript/jQuery Alternative to Customizing DITA Open Toolkit HTML Output to Get the Results You Want
Bill Marcotte
Radialpoint |
DITA Metrics in Production: How, when, where and why
(and how much?)
Keith Schengili-Roberts
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
|
DITA: Handling the noise
and finding content
Yan Périard
IXIASOFT |
2:15-2:55 |
Information Architecture One Layer at a Time: The
example of terms and acronyms
France Baril
Architextus |
Bumpy Road to True DITA Content Management
Gershon Joseph
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Jordan Jones
Cisco Systems, Inc.
|
DITA or Bust: How we succeeded in spite of everything
Steve Straight
TruePosition, Inc. |
Way Beyond Typesetting
Michael Miller
Antenna House |
3:00-3:30 |
Break |
3:35-4:15 |
It Takes a Village: Managing publications
with many contributors
Mark Forry
NetApp, Inc.
Pia Chamberlain
NetApp, Inc. |
Our "Automatic" Conversion Process: DocBook to DITA to Eclipse-based Information Center
Janice Cadel
EMC Corporation
Brian Labarta
EMC Corporation |
Adapting to Change through an Initiatives Program
Marta Rauch
Oracle Corporation |
DITA Enhanced Validation
Techniques
George Bina
Syncro Soft/oXygen XML Editor |
4:20-5:00 |
Intel's Evolution from Desktop to Database Publishing
Steve Ballard
Intel Corporation
Julianne Claybaugh
Intel Corporation |
Killer DITA Apps
Joe Gollner
Stilo International
|
DITA Metrics 101-102
Mark Lewis
Quark |
DITA Made Easy: Smooth transition to DITA authoring using Adobe FrameMaker 10
Kapil Verma
Adobe Systems Incorporated |
5:00-6:00 |
DITA Open Session
Join the chairs of the DITA Technical Committee and the DITA Adoption Technical Committee for a quick overview of the work of the committees. The past year was a busy one—DITA 1.2 was approved as an OASIS standard, new subcommittees were formed, many feature articles were published, and more. Then we'll open the floor for questions, concerns, and a general discussion about the state of DITA, progress of DITA adoption, and the needs of the larger DITA community. |
