DITA in the Trenches: How to Succeed in the Transition to Content Management
STC Toronto meeting - November 13, 7pm. See the STC Toronto website for location.
If you learned in the last meeting what you can do with DITA … in this meeting you’ll find out what people have done.
In his position with The Rockley Group, Steve Manning has now participated (or is participating) in implementing DITA for a number of clients. They range from government departments to hardware and software companies. Some companies had content management systems,
some did not. Some used DITA “out of the box”, others created specializations. For this meeting, he will talk about these projects and what these companies experienced: unexpected issues, positive surprises, technology challenges, writer responses, and the measurement of success.
Steve Manning bio:
Steve Manning is a Principal with The Rockley Group and has over 19 years experience in the documentation field. He is a skilled developer of documentation in many formats (WinHelp, HTML Help, Web sites, XML, and Lotus Notes) and has created single source production
methodologies using key online tools. Steve has extensive experience in project management and has managed a number of multiple media, single source projects. Steve teaches “Enterprise Content Management” at the University of Toronto, and is a frequent speaker at conferences (ASIS, AUGI, STC, ACM SIGDOC, DIA) on the subject of XML, DITA and Content Management and is also a member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee.
Steve is a co-author of Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy with Ann Rockley and Pamela Kostur.