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Developing a sound, comprehensive Information Model is critical to your move to structured authoring, XML, and content management. The Information Model defines the structures your writers use to develop content that is consistent and reusable.
Your Information Model provides the foundation for your authoring guidelines and the implementation of content management in your organization.
In this workshop, learn how to build an information model for your organization. You learn to define your information types, the content units they contain, your standard document structures, as well as your metadata schema, naming conventions, and file and folder structure.
We ask you to bring sample materials to use in the workshop exercises. You will not need your computer for this workshop.
Transitioning to an automated authoring system does not have to be intimidating if you have the right approach. Single sourcing is a methodology for managing technology. If the tasks required to structure and automate your publishing environment are captured succinctly, they become easier to analyze and implement.
Six important components will teach you how to: (1) research systems and strategies, (2) calculate cost-benefits, (3) sell to management, (4) engage your team, (5) demonstrate value, and (6) report on progress. This session emphasizes solutions for your business with hands-on participation. Bring to the session your business issues as they relate to any of the six components listed.
This workshop will cover the following topics:
1. understanding the principles of creating topic-oriented documentation using DITA
2. downloading the DITA Open Toolkit from SourceForge and set it up on a Windows system
3. using the toolkit to process DITA content and create various output formats
4. using Eclipse online help plugins created with the Open Toolkit within an IBM Eclipse Help System
At the end of the workshop, participants should be able to begin working with the DITA Open Toolkit to create output from their DITA content, and to create online help that runs in the [freely available] IBM Eclipse Help System.
Participants will get the most out of the workshop if they have some basic knowledge of DITA, of scripting (in particular Ant scripting), and of the Eclipse environment.
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