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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
Using Task Modeler to Streamline DITA Content Development
Speaker: Mark WallisTime: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Date: May 8
Track: DITA, DITA, DITA
Experience level: Intermediate
Room: Point Grey Room
Mark E. Wallis of IBM Internet Security Systems will demonstrate the primary development tools that IBM uses for DITA, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. The tools include Task Modeler (a free tool), Arbortext Editor (which requires licensing), and compiler (an open source tool).
If you expect to be working with DITA, this is a great opportunity to get a feel for the process and learn how to streamline your work effort.
Task Modeler is a powerful tool for prototyping and development. Come see a demonstration of how you can use Task Modeler to:
- Develop and manage ditamaps
- Develop what we call Task Support Clusters (a group of topics that provides critical conceptual, task, and reference info about a particular application page)
- Build relationship tables that determine what related links appear in a DITA topic
- Generate stubbed (skeleton) DITA topics
You’ll also learn how to use a DITA-compliant editor such as Arbortext Editor to develop your content and you’ll see the compile process in action.
