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Overcoming DITA Content Management
Challenges with DITATooBy
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
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Agenda
• Why DITA?• DITA Challenges• How DITAToo Meet these Challenges • DITAToo in Action (Live Demo)• DITAToo Licensing• Questions and Answers
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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
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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
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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
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How It Works
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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
Licenses Includes..
1st License DITAToo Administrator for Content Administrators + DITAToo Author for the Technical Writer
Any subsequent licenses DITAToo Author for Technical Writers
Non-DITA Administrator DITAToo Aranger for Information Mapping Experts or Publishers
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DITAToo Pricing
Licenses Pricing
1st License $ 950
Any subsequent licenses $ 750
Non-DITA Administrator $ 350
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Any Questions?
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Thank you!
To know more about DITA solutions or DITAToo
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Contact us at:
[email protected]@metapercept.com
Visit us at:
www.ditatoo.comwww.metapercept.com
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