Unpacking DITA Authoring Practices

  • Fachvortrag
  • Intelligent Content Creation and Delivery
  • 25. September
  • 13:20 - 14:00 PM (CEST)
  • Nolwenn Kerzreho

    • IXIASOFT, a MadCap Company

Contents

Some writers and specialists claim it’s too difficult to write in DITA and that the learning curve is too steep. Some other specialists and documentation managers claim that they can start new hires writing in DITA in a couple of hours. Where is the balance between these two statements? 

This presentation is meant to bring a little clarity to writers, information architects, and documentation managers by highlighting which practices technical authors need to a) adopt, b) adapt and c) shed to understand and join the standardized structured format that is the Darwin Information Typing Architecture.

The presentation is open for all writers using various tools and methods.

Takeaways

Think DITA is out of your grasp? Need to help your team refresh their skills? Come and join us to discover what's involved in adopting the DITA standard and find more about the skills' gap - from the authors' perspective.

Prior knowledge

No prior knowledge is necessary

Speaker

Nolwenn Kerzreho

  • IXIASOFT, a MadCap Company
Biography

Nolwenn is Solution Architect with MadCap Software. She has over a decade year of experience in the technical communication industry. She holds a Master’s degree in Technical Communication, Translation, Terminology and Project Management. Based in France, she has international work experience and helped customers deploy unified content strategy in Telecom, software, high-tech, and medical devices industries.