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Identifying your audience

Identifying your audience Online Help Conference Europe June 27-29, 2001 Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.digitext.co.uk/conf2000/ SIGDOC Communicating in the New Millennium October 21 -- 24, 2001 Santa Fe, NM, USA http://mulford.cs.ucr.edu/stilley/sigdoc2001/ Features XML and the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) from Michael Priestley IBM released on March 15, that they were going public with an architecture for technical documentation using XML. From the paper Status and directions of XML in technical documentation in IBM: DITA http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/Publish/1819 Overview of DITA The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. DITA is an end-to-end architecture. It consists of a set of design principles for creating information-typed topic modules and for using that content in various ways, such as online help and product-support portals on the Web. At its heart, DITA is an XML document type definition (DTD) that expresses many of these design principles. The architecture, however, is the defining part of this proposal for technical information; the DTD, or any schema based on it, is just an instantiation of the design principles of the architecture. DITA allows for a more flexible presentation of information. Technical writing is moving away from the book and towards smaller "chunks" http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Communication Design Quarterly Review Association for Computing Machinery

Identifying your audience

Pierce, Rob
Communication Design Quarterly Review , Volume 2 (2) – Jun 1, 2001
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Association for Computing Machinery
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Copyright © 2001 by ACM Inc.
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2166-1200
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10.1145/2168739.2168741
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Online Help Conference Europe June 27-29, 2001 Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.digitext.co.uk/conf2000/ SIGDOC Communicating in the New Millennium October 21 -- 24, 2001 Santa Fe, NM, USA http://mulford.cs.ucr.edu/stilley/sigdoc2001/ Features XML and the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) from Michael Priestley IBM released on March 15, that they were going public with an architecture for technical documentation using XML. From the paper Status and directions of XML in technical documentation in IBM: DITA http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/Publish/1819 Overview of DITA The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. DITA is an end-to-end architecture. It consists of a set of design principles for creating information-typed topic modules and for using that content in various ways, such as online help and product-support portals on the Web. At its heart, DITA is an XML document type definition (DTD) that expresses many of these design principles. The architecture, however, is the defining part of this proposal for technical information; the DTD, or any schema based on it, is just an instantiation of the design principles of the architecture. DITA allows for a more flexible presentation of information. Technical writing is moving away from the book and towards smaller "chunks"

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Communication Design Quarterly Review – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Jun 1, 2001

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