The folks at DITAToo have released another teaser on the results they are getting for a survey they are running that asks how people are converting legacy content to DITA. This shows the answers to two questions: what is the percentage of organizations that are re-writing or re-structuring their content in order to make itRead More
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Interesting Preliminary Results in Legacy-Content-to-DITA Survey
The folks at DITAToo have been running a survey asking people how they convert their legacy content over to DITA. The preliminary results are interesting if not terribly surprising: the vast majority of users are converting their content over from Unstructured FrameMaker, and after that, from Word: From the structure of the survey questions itRead More
DITA-OT Development Team Hosts Usage Survey
Sorry I haven’t posted for a while – have been fiendishly busy developing and teaching a customized course on DITA and a CMS to folks in the U.K. and India on behalf of Mekon. Am on a brief break before I head to Montreal for a conference (more on that tomorrow!) and then on toRead 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
Where Does DITA XML Fit When it Comes to Tech Writing Tool Use?
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. The folks at self-selection bias are running their annual survey of the type ofRead More