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Session Details
Putting Everything Back Together Again: Delivering Effective Information Products
Speaker: Joseph GollnerTime: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Date: May 7
Track: Component Content Management
Experience level: All levels
Room: Dundarave Room
There are many careful steps that must be taken when migrating content into a modular form suited to long term maintenance and reuse. In performing these steps, one of the considerations to be kept in mind is how the units of content, once modularized, will be re-assembled to form both legacy and new information products. This is something that those embarking on implementations of such standards as DITA and S1000D are well acquainted with, or will be.
As one of the key motivators for moving towards a modular content posture is the ability to deliver more precisely tailored information products, the expectations set for the quality and utility of delivered products are in fact being raised over those that applied to legacy offerings. And to make the scenario even more daunting, one of the criteria getting particular attention at present is timeliness – which typically amounts to the mandate to provide just-in-time content. So the assembly of the applicable content modules and their transmutation into a context-specific information product must be performed with blistering speed and flawless quality. The delivery of information products therefore introduces a set of demands that must be systematically addressed if this goal is to be achieved. With reference to a number of case studies, this presentation will review the demands that must be met if modularized content is to be assembled, resolved, compiled and rendered into the types of information products that people rightfully expect.
