Business Solving Today's Content Predicament with an XML Server and DITA
For example, if a person was trying to find a "how-to" section in an owners manual about a piece of technical equipment, they may have to spend a long time digging through a lengthy product manual to finally find one part of a technical document that was only one or two pages long. Scanning through pages and pages of technical jargon to finally find a small piece of information is time consuming and frustrating.
The beauty of pairing DITA with an XML server is the search capabilities. The problem of trying to find a small piece of information is solved in just seconds. The hunt of finding a small piece of information is not so much a hunt anymore as it is an easy process like if you were to Google it.
With DITA working with an XML-based architecture- a technical rich document can be simply searched within a company's content base, selected and repurposed say for a website or broken up for a different user manual that needs to be converted into a "pocket size" brochure.
This is possible in part because sophisticated processing of the content can adapt the content from being optimized for authoring to being optimized for publishing. In larger implementations, these transformations can be exceedingly intensive and can be costly to create, maintain and execute. An XML server has the capabilities to read and transform unreadable content into readable and usable information- once locked and buried before.
A central XML repository that contains vast volumes of medical journals can be accessed by a single query search and repurposed. The information in a bank of medical journals can now be repurposed into new information, repurposed, republished and resold to make a profit. Training materials, books and school texts can all be created from the server bank of medical information. Instead of rewriting the material for a book, take the information already written and repurpose it and turn it into a re useable text book. You can create several different text books from this content base, just depending on who your audience is. One medical training manual could be digitaly published for one group of readers, whereas a medical debate pamphlet could be written for another audience of people.
Discover DITA paired with an XML server for your vast content library to create new works targeted to small groups or even individuals in multiple output formats and multiple products.
About the Author: Melissa Peterman is a web content specialist for Innuity. For more information about DITA and digital publishing , go to Mark Logic
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