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“Wiki Roundtripping? Structured Authoring? How Do They Co-Exist?”
24 Ways to Shut Down The Application and Other Apocryphal Stories
A Comparison of Three Visual Help Authoring Tools
Beyond L10N and G11N—Communicating with Everybody
Breathing Life into your Technical Documents using Adobe AIR and the Technical Communication Suite
Bringing the Video Revolution to Technical Communication
Changing the Rules of the Game for the Benefit of the User
Document Engineering in User Experience Design
Documentation Planning and Library Design in a Web 2.0 World
Extending the Value of Content in Enterprise Systems with Web Content Management
How an Author and Editor Used a Wiki to Write a Book
Living Multiple Lives: The New Technical Communicator
Making XML Technology Accessible
Manage Your Messaging with Machine-Assisted Editing and Large Scale Sentence-level Reuse
Mapping the Entire Global Content Supply Chain
On the Road to Modular Training Content
Once Content is in XML. Now what?
Putting Everything Back Together Again
See Dynamic Publishing in Action!
Taking Our Information Assets to the Next Level
The In.vision DITA Enterprise Suite for Microsoft Word and SharePoint
Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML and DITA
Understanding Component Content Management
Using Collaborative Tools for Virtual Team Management
Using Task Modeler to Streamline DITA Content Development
What Technical Communicators Need to Know about Flash
Wikis Are Wonderful, or Are They? A Real World Story of Using Wikis For User Information
Writing Reusable Content to Support Content Models
[Workshop] Moving from Unstructured Documents to Structured XML
[Workshop] An Overview of RoboHelp 7
[Workshop] Content Engineering
[Workshop] DITA Authoring and Publishing with XMetaL
[Workshop] Introduction to XSL
[Workshop] Making DITA Work For Your Data
[Workshop] Simplified Technical English
[Workshop] Single Sourcing with the Technical Communication Suite
Session Details
The Single Sourcing House: Building, Expanding, Maintaining, and Living in the Single Sourcing House
Speaker: Heidi SandlerTime: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Date: May 7
Track: Content Reuse
Experience level: All levels
Room: Shaughnessy II Room
This presentation will follow along the hilly path as Siemens Building Technologies’ Integration Department took Single Sourcing documentation from concept to pilot project. I will use the “building a house” theme to explore the steps with a mixture of tasks, lessons learned, wins, and losses along the way. I will also discuss ways in which expanding and maintaining the single sourcing system, as well as using it every day as a department standard, is just as challenging as maintaining or expanding a home.
A new home means a new routine, a new route to work, and a new grocery store. Our daily use of XML as our main writing tool also means new processes, procedures, and resources. A new home may also mean new neighbors, roommates, maybe even out-of-town guests. A writing team made up of six members, all with varying backgrounds and areas of expertise requires the same negotiations and discussions as living with people with different needs and schedules. And training another department - a new project scope altogether - can be a bit like accommodating guests who may not have the same appetites, sleep schedules, and interests.
Find out how the Integration writing team faces these challenges every day, with every documentation set.
