DITA Webinar: DITA in Production Series - 3: DITA and Content Ownership: It's all about the TOPICS
If you're adopting or considering a migration from book to topic-based authoring methodologies, then this webinar is for you. We review the key components for establishing content ownership within this paradigm shift. Our guest speakers include Tom Goering of FICO, James Hom of NetApp and Chip Gettinger of SDL's Structured Content Technologies division.
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Topics provide an organization enormous flexibility for managing and authoring small components of content that can then be assembled into larger deliverables such as on-line help, web pages or PDF files. Best practice methodologies establish flexible reuse of topics across deliverables resulting in increased customer satisfaction, improved consistency, faster time to market and reduction in translation costs.
Adoption of a topic-based methodology also brings people and organizational challenges. How can you establish content ownership models with users familiar with the book model? How do you track, communicate and manage? How do you manage expectations with other groups such as product management? How does the adoption of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) impact content ownership and organizational changes?
The webinar includes a presentation and lively interactive panel discussion based on real experiences deploying and managing this type of migration. You’ll learn:
Benefits of establishing use cases to organize your content
Consideration points in establishing and communicating topic ownership
How to establish ownership around specific product packages or groupings
Why establishing “Universal” topics promotes the highest level of reuse
Design impact on metadata models, conditions and variables
Benefits of topic workflow in a Component Content Management (CCM) system
The importance of sharing best practices with distributed teams and change management
Complete the form below to download the webinar and learn how you can successfully manage a migration from a book-based methodology to topic-based authoring.
