How Effective Use of Metadata and the Resource Description Framework (RDF) Can Be an Answer to Your DITA Nightmares
Recorded Date: February 2, 2010
Length: 1.5 hours; 60 min presentation time and 30 min Q&A time.
Fee: $75.00
Abstract: Many challenges face authors and organizations moving to DITA. Some of those challenges may not jump out at you at first. Soon you will be faced with problems that may stop you from sleeping peacefully at night.
For example: Breaking your content into small modular topics is great for reuse, but could easily multiply by 10's or even 100's the number of files you have to manage. Finding information in this “sea of content” can be a grueling task! Another example links. In your DITA content, you will have links everywhere. Maps contain links to topics. Topics may have links to images, cross references to other topics, related links,
and conrefs. Soon, you may not know what content is being used or where it is being use. You may not even know what content is being used at all!
These are just two examples of the many practical challenges you will be faced with as an author and as an organization. During the presentation, we will see how the effective use of metadata along with existing standards such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) can be an answer to those challenges. With metadata and RDF, those nasty nightmares will go away, indeed they may well be the answer to all of your DITA dreams!
Presenter: Frank Shipley is CTO at Componize Software. After a long and rich career in the automotive industry, Frank worked for several years as a freelance consultant and training instructor specialized in XML technologies and enterprise content management. Frank’s interest in DITA dates back to 2005, and he has been authoring content with DITA ever since. Frank co-founded Componize Software in 2008 with the objective of commercializing a new and innovative framework for XML content and Component Content Management.
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