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Perfect Picture: Visualization Perfect Picture: Visualization Techniques for Monitoring Techniques for Monitoring Content QualityContent Quality
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Session AgendaSession Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Current State of Content Monitoring
3. Content Quality Defined
4. Key Metrics for Content Quality
5. Visualization Techniques
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Dakota HighlightsDakota Highlights
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Hundreds of ImplementationsHundreds of Implementations
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IntroductionIntroduction
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State of Content MetricsState of Content Metrics
How do you define high quality content?
How do measure content quality?
How do you communicate progress?
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State of Content MetricsState of Content Metrics
How do you define high quality content?
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I Know It When I See ItI Know It When I See It
“I shall not today attempt further to defi ne the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within ["obscenity"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the content involved is not that.”
Justice Potter Stewart
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State of Content MetricsState of Content Metrics
How do measure content quality?
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Current State: Evolution of CMS MetricsCurrent State: Evolution of CMS Metrics
Metrics:Metrics:
- Available with Web analytics
- Tracks access to technical documentation
- Relies on user feedback
- No insight into effectiveness
Usage Metrics
Metrics:Metrics:
- Available with CMS Available with CMS technologytechnology
- Led to over Led to over complicated complicated workflowsworkflows
- Modelled after Modelled after product life-cycle product life-cycle managementmanagement
- No insight into usageNo insight into usage
Process Metrics
Metrics:
- Focus on resources
- Basic metrics on what is bought
- No insight into utilization
System Metrics Content Metrics
Metrics:
- Available with XML database technology
- Tracks access to component level metrics
- Builds models for effectiveness
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Content Metrics: System ViewContent Metrics: System View
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Content Metrics: System View Content Metrics: System View
• Number of Technical Writers• Number of Reviewers• Number of Users• Number of Publications• Number of Distribution Channels• Ratio of Technical Writers / Publication
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Content Metrics: Process View Content Metrics: Process View
• Average Publishing Cycle Time• % Time Spent in Each State• % Time Spent on Each Document• % Documents Behind Schedule• Number of Releases / Period
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Content Metrics: Process ViewContent Metrics: Process View
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Usage View: Content Metrics Usage View: Content Metrics
• Usage Feedback / Comments• Number of Document Accesses • % Time Spent on Each Document• Indirect Determination of
Effectiveness
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Content Metrics: Usage ViewContent Metrics: Usage View
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Content Metrics: VisualizationContent Metrics: Visualization
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Content Metrics: Guidance for AuthorsContent Metrics: Guidance for Authors
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Content Metrics: Quality Indicator and Content Metrics: Quality Indicator and ScorecardScorecard
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Content Metrics: Quality DashboardContent Metrics: Quality Dashboard
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State of Content MetricsState of Content Metrics
How do communicate progress?
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Project Killer – CFOProject Killer – CFO
‘There is no budget for this project'
Risks:
* Finance personnel don't have the technology background to fully understand the ROI of CMS's.
* Finance personnel have a bias toward preventing any new IT cost expenditures.
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The ROI Picture
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The ROI Formula
(Co x Rf) – Ci
ROI = ___________ X Sf
Ci
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Reuse (multi-level) Repurposing
� Reduces content creation costs
� Reduces content maintenance costs
� Reduces content translation costs
� Increases content accuracy
Content View: Content Metrics
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Profiled Documents
Dynamic Assembly
� More relevant info to customers
� Easier creation of new products
� Fresher, real-time information
� Information on demand
Content View: Content Metrics
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Common Content Metrics ErrorsCommon Content Metrics Errors
• Believing Efficiency Gains Equal Cost Savings• Not Allocating Cost Correctly Across Budgets• Not Timing Submissions with Budget Cycles • Interpreting Fixed Costs Inappropriately• Miscalculating the ROI Horizon• Not Targeting Cost Savings and Revenue Generation• Not Factoring in Risk• Not Addressing Perceived Value
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Content Metrics: VisualizationContent Metrics: Visualization
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Content Metrics: Content ReportContent Metrics: Content Report
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Content Metrics: Good Content is Content Metrics: Good Content is SymmetricalSymmetrical
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Content Metrics: Content DistributionsContent Metrics: Content Distributions
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Content Metrics: VisualizationContent Metrics: Visualization
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Content Metrics: VisualizationContent Metrics: Visualization
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