Posts Tagged ‘Arbortext’

Video: How DITA Transformed Content at Nikon Precision

Posted in meetings, video on March 26th, 2011 by lizfraley – Be the first to comment

his video goes with the original meeting notice. This video is a recorded version of:

“How DITA Transformed Content at Nikon Precision

Presented by Debra West-Maciaszek, Nikon Precision

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 Debra’s biography. Every last bit is completely live.

 

March 2011 Meeting Announcement: Managing technical data sets using XML

Posted in meetings on January 23rd, 2011 by lizfraley – Be the first to comment

Please join us online for our regular meeting:

“Managing technical data sets using XML”

Presented by Jonas Härdner, Simonsoft

Date: Saturday, 26 March 2011, 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/541995035

Topic

Product information on a data level is often managed by many different disciplines in a manufacturing company. Marketing looks after Data sheets, R&D has their own data set of product attributes and so on. The information is often stored in different databases or at worst just as a text string in a document.

The challenge is with growing product portfolios, increased regulations and large organizations, to manage this data-set in a single source environment and to be re-used in all depending documentation.

This session will present a possible way to solve the problem using XML and CMS as a single source using different layers of authoring to allow the whole organization to contribute. We also talk about how the data is easily is reused in to the XML based documentation.

Speaker

Jonas Härdner, Simonsoft

Simonsoft is a company who distributes the Arbortext product portfolio to the complete Nordic market. Working with many experienced publishing companies in the Nordic region, we also provide these solutions directly to the end user, in specific cases.

No meeting in January

Posted in news on January 3rd, 2011 by lizfraley – Be the first to comment

We had a speaker lined up who cancelled and couldn’t find anyone to fill in at the last minute. Seems that’s what happened last year too. Everyone’s busy getting ready for the end of the year then gearing back up after the holidays. Traditionally, this was also when PTC/User presentations were due and that complicated things. Maybe we’ll just skip having meetings Nov-Jan.  If you want your User fix, head over to Single-Sourcing Solutions and the Arbortext Monster Garage.

We’ll see you in February when our speaker is Deb West-Maciaszek from Nikon Precision!