Early last week, in fact during their one-day DITA Fest conference, SDL announced a “new family of software products” under the banner of “SDL LiveContent”. Well, maybe not entirely new, and it was quickly evident either to anyone who has already been using their tools or has been watching the industry for a while thatRead More
Tag: DITA CMS
Compiling the List of DITA-capable CMSes (Mk. I)
The following are some thoughts and observations I had while coming up with the initial version of this list, which has a permanent home here.The intent was to capture all CMSes that claim to be DITA-capable, and use that as a starting point to build a more robust list to aid those people seeking aRead More
Choosing a DITA CMS
One of the projects I have been working on for a while is a list of CMSes that claim in some way to be DITA-capable, done largely because no such list seems to exist elsewhere. One of the things I have discovered in the process of surveying various CMS marketing materials is that it isRead More
Moving from One DITA CMS to Another: Lessons Learned from Migrating from a First-Generation to a Second-Generation DITA CMS
One of the most interesting presentations I saw at the Ixiasoft DITA CMS conference back in June was presented by a Documentation Team Lead at Research in Motion (RIM). While these days the beleaguered firm is better known in the news for its revenue woes (though it is good to see some wins as well),Read More
“DITA Today and Tomorrow” Presentation Now Available from YouTube
The Webinar presentation I did yesterday afternoon on behalf of Data Conversion Laboratory has now been posted to YouTube. You can now watch this anytime. Enjoy! For those who just want the slide deck, here’s a copy of the PDF, and here’s a link to the original Prezi that it was derived from. Will beRead More
“DITA Today and Tomorrow” – Keynote Presentation from the Ixiasoft DITA CMS Conference
Last Thursday I delivered a keynote presentation called “DITA Today and Tomorrow” at the Ixiasoft DITA CMS Conference. It went over well, despite some technical glitches involving a faulting projector cable at the beginning. 😉 I was asked by Ixiasoft’s CEO Éric Begeron to provide the presentation on this topic, which gave me a greatRead More
DITAWriter to Deliver Keynote at DITA CMS Conference
The folks at Ixiasoft have invited me to give the keynote presentation at their first-ever DITA CMS User Conference which is happening later this week in Montreal, Canada. The talk is called “DITA Today and Tomorrow” and will focus on the current state of the portion of the technical writing community that has embraced DITARead More
The Latest Trends in DITA XML Use in Tech Writing (Part 2)
In the previous article I looked briefly at the numbers from the latest Microsft’s Visio survey of technical writer tools, taking the raw data and showing where the DITA-OT appears in the list of the overall top 20 Technical Writer’s tools (#18, up from #20 in 2011) and where it appears in a listing ofRead More
The Latest Trends in DITA XML Use in Tech Writing (Part 1)
Update January 27, 2012: Have changed the table info so that it is driven from a database – now you can sort and search the content of the tables, as well as seeing the full listing of tools in the survey. It wasn’t that long ago when I looked at the 2011 Survey that WritersUARead More