Metadata Lives Forever: Keeping Documentation Useful Across Long Lifecycles
- Presentation
- AI & Automation in Technical Communication
- 24. September
- 09:55 AM (CEST) - 10:40 AM (CEST)
- Titanium
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Christoph Beenen
- kothes GmbH
Contents
Many products and systems remain in use far longer than the tools and documentation environments around them. To keep documentation usable over such long lifecycles, organizations need structures that remain stable even as technologies shift. This presentation explores why metadata is the element that enables long‑term usability, maintainability and consistency — and why its importance grows in the age of AI.
Drawing on practical consulting experience, the session shows how metadata supports reuse, traceability, modular content and sustainable information architectures. It also explains how AI can enhance metadata creation, classification and migration, and where human‑designed models remain irreplaceable. Participants will learn how to design metadata that works across decades and how to transform legacy documentation into structured, AI‑ready, future‑proof information assets.
Takeaways
Learn how metadata and AI together keep documentation usable, consistent and maintainable across long lifecycles.