SF Bay Arbortext PTC/User Blog

Please join us online for our regular meeting:

“Deploying and Maintaining a Large Single-Sourcing Solution: Now What?”

Presented by Todd Nowlan, a large Canadian Telecom

Date: Saturday, 28 August 2010, 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific/US

Location: Online via GoToMeeting. You must Register to receive the GoToMeeting invite.

Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend.

Registration Web Link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/987710090

Topic

Your organization has gone through the pains of developing business cases and acquiring funds to implement a single-sourcing solution. How do you proceed with choosing and implementing a solution, what are the steps you need to take to deploy the system, what are the critical success factors and pitfalls you need to consider? Once you’ve deployed your solution, what is it that you need to do to maintain the system, how do you handle the inevitable mountain of requests coming from all stakeholders to improve and extend capabilties?

This session will outline some of the key items to consider and plan for in each phase of a single-sourcing solution’s lifecycle based upon a high-tech company’s experience and learnings. The presentation will take you through some of the approaches they found to be effective for implementing and managing their combined Arbortext PE/DLM and Documentum system.

About the Speaker

Todd Nowlan is currently IT Project Manager responsible for maintaining and supporting the documentation and training CMSs for a large telecom equipment provider. Todd has more than 16 years experience with the methods and toolsets associated with structured authoring, XML authoring, and content management. He has held various technical and management roles supporting small and large user communities, including experience developing XML business cases, deriving technical requirements, testing, and deploying processes and systems.

Note

This meeting will be held online. You must RSVP to receive the GoToMeeting invite. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Acknowledgements

This meeting is brought to you by the SF Bay Arbortext PTC/User Group.

We want to thank Single-Sourcing Solutions for coordinating our meeting logistics, administration, and for providing access to their GoToMeeting resources and conference bridge facilities.

This video goes with the meeting notice posted here. This video is a recorded version of:

“Combining Projections to
Create Enhanced Lineart Images”

Presented by Rick Ernst, Newbook Production

This is a recorded version of a live Go2Meeting webcast. The video is posted as is. It has not been edited. You should go read Rick’s biography here. Every last bit is completely live.

 

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This video goes with the meeting notice posted here. This video is a recorded version of:

“A Developer’s Guide to IsoDraw Customization,
Macro Coding, and the Associated Benefits”

Presented by Trevor Hendricks, Kohler

This is a recorded version of a live Go2Meeting webcast. The video is posted as is. It has not been edited. You should go read Trevor’s biography here. Every last bit is completely live.

Download the slides.  See the Macros.

 

 Trevor Hendricks – A Developer’s Guide to IsoDraw Customization, Macro Coding, and the Associated Benefits: Play Now | Play in Popup

Please join us online for our regular meeting:

“Building the future of technical publishing
with MathFlow, MathType, and MathML“

Presented by Autumn Cuellar & Robert Miner, Design Science

Date: Saturday, 25 September 2010, 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific/US

Location: Online via GoToMeeting. You must Register to receive the GoToMeeting invite.

Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend.

Topic

The XML standards framework underlying many technical publishing challenges and opportunities of the last decade has noticeably matured in recent years.  A long list of technologies such as HTML, DITA, MathML, SVG, CSS and PDF now have very full and stable feature sets that are more and more widely and dependably implemented.  As a predictable consequence, the energy of early adopters is again on the move, shifting toward creative combination and reuse of these technologies. Web applications for collaboration, social networking and distributed authoring web applications are proliferating at a tremendous pace. eBooks are increasingly popular, with readers seeking access not only from desktops but a variety of readers, devices and tablets, where electronic ink is an input format.

What does all this mean for you? In this presentation, we’ll discuss the future of technical publishing, both from the point of view of taking advantage of the maturation of the traditional XML standards framework, as well as the perspective of putting yourself in a position to get out in front of emerging trends.

About the Speaker

Robert Miner leads Design Science’s research and development efforts. He has led the development of Design Science’s MathFlow product line from its inception, and now oversees development of DSI’s MathType, MathPlayer and MathDaisy products as well. While at DSI, Miner helped initiate research programs for adding value to electronic math content, particularly in the areas of math-aware searching and mathematics accessibility. In addition, Miner co-chairs the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Math Working Group that developed and maintains MathML, an XML markup language for mathematics. He has written and spoken extensively on MathML and its impact on technical publishing. Robert received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Maryland, and studied at Oxford and Universität Bern.

Autumn Cuellar is the XML Specialist at Design Science, where she works with publishers, engineers, educators, and programmers to include MathML in XML publishing workflows. Before joining Design Science, Autumn was a researcher at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, developing CellML, an XML language for describing biological models, and associated metadata and ontologies.

Autumn Cuellar

Note

This meeting will be held online. You must RSVP to receive the GoToMeeting invite. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Acknowledgments

This meeting is brought to you by the SF Bay Arbortext PTC/User Group.

We want to thank Single-Sourcing Solutions for coordinating our meeting logistics, administration, and for providing access to their GoToMeeting resources and conference bridge facilities.

This video goes with the meeting notice posted here. This video is a recorded version of:

“Return on Investment of a DITA Learning Specialization
—A Case Study“

Presented by Scott Youngblom, Oberon Technologies

This is a recorded version of a live Go2Meeting webcast. The video is posted as is. It has not been edited. You should go read Scott’s biography here. Every last bit is completely live.

Download the slides.

 

 Video: Scott Youngblom - ROI of a DITA Learning Specialization: Play Now | Play in Popup