Overcoming DITA Content Management Challenges with DITAToo By Amit Siddhartha & Alex Masycheff STC-India Chapter Annual Conference 2012
About Presenters Amit Siddhartha: –Owner & Consultant at Metapercept Information Solutions & Consulting –Expert in DITA, XSLT, structured authoring, single sourcing, usability, and Information Mapping –Implementation Partner of DITAToo in India Alex Masycheff: –CEO at DITAToo –Expert in DITA, content management, single sourcing, and technical documentation
Agenda Why DITA? DITA Challenges How DITAToo Meet these Challenges DITAToo in Action (Live Demo) DITAToo Licensing Questions and Answers
Why DITA? Less time required to develop documentation due to powerful content reuse capabilities Enforces consistent structure and formatting across all the documents More focus on content development by Technical Writers Easy content customization Reduced translation costs Flexible & customizable as per requirement Improved single sourcing Immense community support
DITA Challenges Migrating to DITA, as contents are topic based Understanding of element and conflict between DITA structures and document structure Maintaining link integrity Searching Tracking content reuse Managing content variations High costs for DITA content management tools
DITAToo Overview DITAToo is a DITA Content Management, Publishing & Automation System Central content repository DITA editors agnostic Tight integration with FrameMaker 11 Built-in Word-to-DITA converter Link management Full-text and metadata-based search Content reuse tracking Content variations management Integration with DITA Open Toolkit (DITA OT) Version control and more...
How It Works
DITAToo Live Demo Uploading DITA to the DITAToo content repository Automatic Word-to-DITA conversion Link management Search Re-arranging DITA Publishing and single sourcing Managing content reuse
DITAToo Licenses LicensesIncludes.. 1 st LicenseDITAToo Administrator for Content Administrators + DITAToo Author for the Technical Writer Any subsequent licensesDITAToo Author for Technical Writers Non-DITA AdministratorDITAToo Aranger for Information Mapping Experts or Publishers
DITAToo Pricing LicensesPricing 1 st License$ 950 Any subsequent licenses$ 750 Non-DITA Administrator$ 350
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