DITA Webinar 3: DITA and Content Ownership: It's all about the TOPICS

Topics provide an organization enormous flexibility for managing and authoring small components of content that can then be assembled into larger deliverables such as on-line help, web pages or PDF files. Best practice methodologies establish flexible reuse of topics across deliverables resulting in increased customer satisfaction, improved consistency, faster time to market and reduction in translation costs.

Adoption of a topic-based methodology also brings people and organizational challenges. How can you establish content ownership models with users familiar with the book model? How do you track, communicate and manage? How do you manage expectations with other groups such as product management? How does the adoption of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) impact content ownership and organizational changes?

The webinar includes a presentation and lively interactive panel discussion based on real experiences deploying and managing this type of migration.  You’ll learn:

• Benefits of establishing use cases to organize your content

• Consideration points in establishing and communicating topic ownership

• How to establish ownership around specific product packages or groupings

• Why establishing “Universal” topics promotes the highest level of reuse

• Design impact on metadata models, conditions and variables

• Benefits of topic workflow in a Component Content Management (CCM) system

• The importance of sharing best practices with distributed teams and change management

Complete the form below to download the webinar and learn how you can successfully manage a migration from a book-based methodology to topic-based authoring.