Content Management and XML Authoring

Trends: SDL buys again, picking up Idiom

2008-02-15T08:51:00.000-08:00

Trends: SDL buys again, picking up Idiom

In Focus: Five Noteworthy Content Management Debuts at AIIM Expo - Yahoo! News

2006-05-16T08:28:00.000-07:00

In Focus: Five Noteworthy Content Management Debuts at AIIM Expo - Yahoo! News

The Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit

2006-03-30T10:27:00.000-08:00

The Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit: "Harnessing ideas. Working together effectively. Capitalizing on innovation. These are the priorities of today's leading enterprises. The building blocks that will help every organization succeed? Portals, content management, collaboration and learning.

Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit will focus on the strategies, plans, systems and technologies that organizations can use to effectively capture and exploit their pent-up knowledge. "

ATI Technologies Selects IXIASOFT's DITA-Based Content Management Platform to Manage Technical Documentation

2006-03-24T10:07:00.000-08:00

ATI Technologies Selects IXIASOFT's DITA-Based Content Management Platform to Manage Technical Documentation: "ATI Technologies to manage technical documentation with a sophisticated solution based on the IXIASOFT DITA CMS Framework"

Microsoft Showcases Enhancements in 2007 Microsoft Office System

2006-03-24T10:05:00.000-08:00

Microsoft Showcases Enhancements in 2007 Microsoft Office System: Is the new Microsoft Office system moving toward enterprise content management?

Content Management Strategies Conference 2006

2006-03-24T10:00:00.000-08:00

Content Management Strategies Conference 2006: 8th Annual Content Management Strategies conference. Tools and best practices; enterprise-wide content management; Reusing content; moving to DITA; managing content in an operations environment; multiple media from a single source of content.

Adobe Labs - XMP Toolkit Version 4.0 Prerelease 1

2006-03-15T13:59:00.000-08:00

Adobe Labs - XMP Toolkit Version 4.0 Prerelease 1: "The Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a labeling technology that allows you to embed data about a file, known as metadata, into the file itself. "

Vasont CMS Provides Standard DITA Setup

2006-03-14T09:46:00.000-08:00

Vasont CMS Provides Standard DITA Setup: "Vasont Systems, a provider of content management software and data services, has announced that a standard Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) setup is included with every installation of the Vasont Content Management System."

Justsystems Plans Acquisition of Blast Radius XMetaL

2006-03-13T08:55:00.000-08:00

EContentMag.com: Justsystems Plans Acquisition of Blast Radius XMetaL: "Justsystems US Holding, Inc. and Blast Radius, Inc. have announced that they have reached an agreement for Justsystems to acquire the XMetaL software business of Blast Radius."

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

2006-02-28T15:23:00.000-08:00

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Microsoft SharePoint Technologies : "All You Need to Know to Start with Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server"

Success in Standards-Based Content Creation and Delivery at Global Companies

2006-02-27T08:08:00.000-08:00

Success in Standards-Based Content Creation and Delivery at Global Companies: "The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) has seen rapid adoption and implementation. This is especially true when you compare the adoption of DITA with other standards-based approaches to content creation and distribution. "

DITA Open Toolkit 1.2 is released!

2006-02-23T09:40:00.000-08:00

SourceForge.net: DITA Open Toolkit 1.2 is released!: "DITA open toolkit Release 1.2 is a major release to add new functions, fulfill new requirements, make some function enhancements and fix bugs over release 1.1.2.1.

New features include transformation to Word RTF format, problem determination and log analysis, and an HTML to DITA conversion tool"

How to plan for information lifecycle management

2006-02-23T09:25:00.000-08:00

InfoStor - How to plan for information lifecycle management: "Is ILM simply a repackaging of old methods with a glossy veneer of vaporware, or can you actually improve your operational costs and efficiencies? "

Content Management: reaching the next level

2006-02-22T13:35:00.000-08:00

KMWorld.com: CM: reaching the next level: "In spite of the ongoing efforts of vendors and user organizations, the management of non-structured data (content) continues to be a problem, with significant impact. Yet evidence indicates that content management (CM) is being deployed more widely within vanguard organizations, with major benefits. "

Adobe FrameMaker and XML event

2006-02-16T07:52:00.000-08:00

Adobe FrameMaker and XML event: "Adobe and Mekon present FrameMaker@Adobe.Day, a day dedicated to FrameMaker and XML publishing technologies."

XML Content Authoring For the Rest of Us

2006-02-15T08:28:00.000-08:00

XML Content Authoring For the Rest of Us "XML authoring has long been viewed as difficult and arcane, and best left to specialists using complex thick-client software. ..."

PTC™ Doubles Language Support of Arbortext Products With 5.2 Release

2006-02-15T08:21:00.000-08:00

PTC Press Releases: PTC™ Doubles Language Support of Arbortext Products With 5.2 Release: "February 14, 2006 - PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the Product Development Company™, today announced the general availability of Arbortext® 5.2 - the latest release of PTC's dynamic publishing software. "

Is your content a waste of time and money?: New Thinking: Gerry McGovern

2006-02-06T11:11:00.000-08:00

Is your content a waste of time and money?: "Most content gets in the way. It's poor quality. Nobody's interested in it, except those who create it. How much of this sort of content are you publishing?"

Component Content Management in Practice

2006-02-03T18:12:00.000-08:00

Component Content Management in Practice: Good white paper by Bill Trippe about managing content components in the context of a content management system. It discusses aspects of reusing content components, and gives many good examples.

EMC Adds Google Desktop to EMC Documentum Federated Search Environment

2006-01-31T08:59:00.000-08:00

EMC Adds Google Desktop to EMC Documentum Federated Search Environment: "EMC Corporation has announced the addition of Google Desktop for Enterprise as the newest information source available to users through a single query within EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) Services."

Managing the Complexity of Content Management

2006-01-18T08:01:00.000-08:00

Managing the Complexity of Content Management - Boxes and Arrows: "Content management systems suck. Or so you would think from the strife heard from analysts and practitioners alike. And yet, many websites regularly publish vast amounts of information with superior control and ease compared to manually editing pages. So where's the disconnect between what's possible and the too-often failure of CMS?"

Databases Are So 20th Century

2006-01-05T15:09:00.000-08:00

Databases Are So 20th Century -- CMS Watch A very nice article about the issues around managing unstructured content in databases.

Microsoft Releases Technical Beta of Office "12"

2005-11-17T09:04:00.000-08:00

Microsoft Releases Technical Beta of Office "12" The new version of Office (code-named Microsoft Office "12") uses an XML-based file format. It has a new user interface, and many new features. General availability is scheduled for the second half of 2006.

DITA support in SiberSafe

2005-11-15T09:04:00.000-08:00

DITA support in SiberSafe SiberLogic has released a DITA Edition of its content management system, SiberSafe. SiberSafe is a feature-rich CMS that also combines semantic knowledge modeling, which allows cotent to be retrieved in many different ways. SiberLogic's modeling technology is built on the open W3C Semantic Web standards RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language).

60+ Vendors Set to Showcase Latest Innovations at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies Boston

2005-11-14T10:10:00.000-08:00

60+ Vendors Set to Showcase Latest Innovations at the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies Boston: "The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars today announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies Boston will play host to over 60 vendors exhibiting a broad range of content technologies available for enterprise applications."

Bright Path Solutions

2005-11-09T13:51:00.000-08:00

Bright Path Solutions: Bright Path Solutions offers custom solutions for publishing. They focus on paper and web publishing packages and related services. They do XML round-trip setup, single source implementations, database publishing (XML/FrameMaker), and other FrameMaker-related publishing solutions.

Microsoft to Showcase New Help Authoring Tool From MadCap Software

2005-11-08T07:54:00.000-08:00

Microsoft to Showcase New Help Authoring Tool From MadCap Software: "MadCap Software, Inc., today announced that its flagship software, MadCap Flare, will be one of a handful of products worldwide chosen by Microsoft for showcase at the global launch of Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0 on November 7."

Information Mapping Acquires XML Technology

2005-11-08T07:46:00.000-08:00

Information Mapping Acquires XML Technology: "Information Mapping™, Inc. (IMI), the leading provider of Information Life Cycle Solutions to the Global 1000, today announced it has acquired XML technology to be integrated with Content Mapper™, a front-end MS-Word-based authoring tool that generates XML and links with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Systems. "

Alfresco releases first Open Source Enterprise Content Management Solution

2005-11-01T10:27:00.000-08:00

Alfresco releases first Open Source Enterprise Content Management Solution: "Alfresco is built on modern, service oriented technologies and standards from this decade, such as Spring, Hibernate, Lucene and Web Services, JSR-168, JSR-170 and MyFaces. These help to dramatically bring down the cost and complexity of both implementation and use of these systems. The company is lead by a team of content management veterans including the co-founder of Documentum."

digitalML - Collaborative XML Schema Management solutions

2005-10-25T15:23:00.000-07:00

Collaborative XML Schema Management solutionsXML Schema lifecycle management.

FAST Desktop Search Platform Comes Gunning for Google

2005-10-25T08:15:00.000-07:00

FAST Desktop Search Platform Comes Gunning for Google - Yahoo! News

AJaX Applications in Business

2005-10-19T14:31:00.000-07:00

AJaX Applications in BusinessAJaX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) -
Vancouver User Experience Group (VanUE) event- Thursday, October 27th, 2005 5:30 to 7:00pm

Reuse: Its Remarkable Splendor

2005-10-14T08:31:00.000-07:00

Reuse: Its Remarkable Splendor Article from Arbortext : XML Publishing Network. An exploration of the many ways content can be reused.

CM Professionals - The Content Management Community of Practice

2005-10-11T08:07:00.000-07:00

CM ProfessionalsThe Content Management Community of Practice

New in Altova XML, Data Management, UML & Web Services Tools

2005-10-10T15:54:00.000-07:00

Altova Software Version 2006Altova released version 2006 of its XML suite of tools on October 3, 2005.

Event Schedule

2005-10-05T11:12:00.000-07:00

DCIs Portals, Collaboration, & Content Management Conference

CM Pros Canada West Comminity

2005-09-24T22:26:00.000-07:00

CM Pros Canada West Comminity

Cover Pages: Initiatives Ramp Up Work on XML Naming and Design Rules Specifications.

2005-09-14T13:54:00.000-07:00

Initiatives Ramp Up Work on XML Naming and Design Rules Specifications Several industry and government initiatives are now gaining momentum in their goal to craft guidelines and rules for naming XML components: XML namespace names, types, elements, attributes, schema modules, code list enumerations, domain models, etc.

Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Emerging Standard Eases Content Modeling Headaches

2005-09-14T13:30:00.000-07:00

Emerging Standard Eases Content Modeling HeadachesSwitching to XML-based content management can save big money in the long run by promoting content reuse and multichannel delivery. It can also be an expensive, time-consuming challenge akin to building a house from a pile of lumber. Using the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) makes the project more like building with prefabricated modular components.

CMS Watch: Content Management, Records Management, Enterprise Search Reports

2005-09-01T21:42:00.000-07:00

CMS Watch: Content Management, Records Management, Enterprise Search Reports
CMS Watch™ is an independent source of analysis and reports on content management, records management, and enterprise search solutions.

DITA Europe Conference 2005

2005-09-01T14:03:00.000-07:00

DITA Europe Conference 2005

CIDM Information Management News Volume 5, Issue 9

2005-09-01T14:01:00.000-07:00

CIDM Information Management News Volume 5, Issue 9

OpenSourceCMS

2005-08-29T14:26:00.000-07:00

OpenSourceCMS - "try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world.

Content Management Bible - home page

2005-08-26T14:49:00.000-07:00

Content Management Bible Home page of the Content Management Bible - a very detailed book about content management.

Content management system

2005-08-26T14:48:00.000-07:00

Content management system Nice page from Wikipedia about CMS. Gives background on all the different flavors of CMS. A good primer...

Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy

2005-08-26T14:45:00.000-07:00

Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy provides the concepts, strategies, guidelines, processes, and technological options that will prepare enterprise content managers and authors to meet the increasing demands of creating, managing, and distributing content.

The Rockley Group - Workshops

2005-08-26T14:43:00.000-07:00

The Rockley Group - Workshops The Rockley Group Content Management Workshop Series is designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the concepts and techniques required to develop and implement effective content management.

Content Management Strategies Conference 2006

2005-08-25T08:53:00.000-07:00

Content Management Strategies Conference 2006 Conference focussing on management and planning; technical design and implementation; learining how to implement the DITA standard.

XML Conference & Exposition 2005

2005-08-25T08:48:00.000-07:00

XML Conference & Exposition 2005 XML 2005 is the largest independent XML conference, designed for professionals who want to use XML and related technologies to produce higher-quality data, increase production speed, and save money. November 14-18, 2005, Hilton Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia

Moving to Content Management - Creating Structured Content

2005-08-24T13:09:00.000-07:00

Structured Content - live radio show
Discussion about "Structured Content" on the fastest growing weekly internet radio show,
"Content Management Live!" 08/25/05 LIVE at 1:00 PM Eastern

DITA Open Toolkit

2005-08-24T09:09:00.000-07:00

DITA Open Toolkit—DITA (Darwin Information Type Architecture) is an architecture for creating topic-oriented, information-typed content that can be reused and single-sourced in a variety of ways. DITA is extensible and allows content creation professionals to create very specific, targeted document type definitions using a process called specialization, while still sharing common output transforms and design rules developed for more general types and domains. DITA is well suited for single sourcing in a content mangagement environment.

What is Enterprise Content Management?

2005-08-23T14:38:00.000-07:00

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is an architecture and a strategy that brings together core functions that enable the enterprise to create, capture, store, retrieve, manage the life-cycle, publish any digital content (documents, content pieces, digital assets, records, etc).

An ECMS, together with a single sourcing strategy provides a powerful solution for creating, storing, and sharing content throughout the enterprise. Web sites and other delivery channels provide the access points to content in the Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS).

What is Single Sourcing?

2005-08-12T14:23:00.000-07:00

Single sourcing is a technique of writing content so that it can be delivered through multiple channels (e.g., Print, DVD-ROM, Web, and wireless), in multiple forms (e.g., HTML and PDF), in multiple presentation styles, and reused within other content. Reuse means that a single piece of content (sentence, paragraph, topic, etc) can be repurposed without the need to copy and paste it or reformat it manually. For example, a product description could be used in a printed book such as a user guide, an online marketing brochure in PDF, online help, HTML text on a web page.

The main reason that single sourcing is important is to avoid the situation where there are multiple instances of the same content that need to be kept up-to-date. If the content needs changing, you must change the content in all instances. If you don’t change all the instances, the content quickly becomes obsolete, inconsistent, contradicting, or incorrect. This situation usually happens when content is copied and pasted from one document to another.

XML is generally considered the best approach for single sourcing because it separates content from formatting allows content to be reused across different content types, has a semi-structured format that describes the content (metadata), and can be processed automatically in many different ways.

However, this does not mean that XML is the only way to single source content. For example, a number of proprietary content creation tools, such as FrameMaker and RoboHelp include support for single-sourcing. This support can include the ability to output to different formats such as HTML and PDF, the ability to reuse text by reference, and conditional text. The big disadvantage of this approach is that the tools are proprietary and are generally specific to certain content types. For example, you can’t directly reuse a RoboHelp topic in a FrameMaker file.

XML increases:

Content quality—by separating presentation from content, you must concentrate on the quality of the content rather than the appearance. XML also requires compliance with a DTD or Schema, which gives you control over the completeness and consistency of documents.
Presentation flexibility—separating the presentation from the text gives you more flexibility in the media to which you can output your content.
Customization—you can define your own XML tags and content structure with a DTD or XML Schema. The DTD makes XML highly customizable. You can define tags that writers as well as programs can find useful.
Accessibility—XML is future-proof and compliant with all platforms because anyone can write a program to render the documents.
Manipulation of data—because XML is self-describing it has built in metadata. Metadata is a powerful tool for searching and organizing document content.
Viewing and editing flexibility—XML is non-proprietary, which means that no single entity has exclusive rights to its use. An increasing number of technologies support XML. A non-proprietary format avoids the problem you can have viewing and editing files in proprietary format. You can access an XML document with any software that supports XML, regardless of the program used to create the document.

XML documents are published by converting them into different formats. This is typically done using a stylesheet and/or custom software. You may see these stylesheets referred to as XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations) and XSL:FO (eXtensible Stylesheet Language: Formatting Objects). A stylesheet contains the instructions for converting an XML document into a specific format. The instructions are a kind of programming language, and therefore require specialist knowledge to create. Writers typically do not need to know the details about how the stylesheets work or how their XML files are processed. Writers typically publish their documents either manually from their XML authoring tool or by an automated process built into their content management system (CMS).